AmbergrisCaye.com Home Forums Talk Belize Trip Reports Rip off at the International airport

Everytime I have been there I have been treated okay. Sometimes a free drink. If short on Belizian money when leaving forget about it instead of using US. A Beliken key chain every so often. Have I been short changed, don't think so but never checked.

No i don't think nasty is too strong. Where i come from someone who treats my wife the way he did, and apparently 'touches up" other women (although he didnt try it on my wife-luckily for him)would be called nasty. I can offer you some alternatives if you wish....
As far as the short changing is concerned, That's dishonest. Plain and simple. Some may sneer at only one dollar. fine if your standard is that its ok to steal a dollar how about two dollars or ten dollars or a hundred?
Ive said what I've said and I stand by it. he is a nasty little man and dishonest with it. Period.
He is a bad reflection on Belize with tourists leaving the country or entering it.

One does make the choice to step up to his bar or not. Just take a seat in the departure lounge, and ignore the bar.

i guess since you are the hall monitor for trip advisor, your opinion has more credibility then the rest of ours. i have never had an issue with the man. make your report...trip advisor is a joke any way. like everything else in life there are three sides to the story, yours, his, and the truth. very easy to flame someone when they are not here to fight back. send me your address, and i'll send you 10 bucks to go away.

good lord

I need to know, was that a BZ dollar or US dollar?

i don't care what anyone says,,, chicken dogs SUCK!!!
if Jet says it's the best hot dog in Belize,, and you believe it, hooboy.
you know your drunk when: You can walk into a 7-11 at 2am, look at the cheese dog that's been mutating on the grill since 8am and think, "Man, that looks tasty!"

same thing.

I dunno chris45, while I agree that deliberate shortchanging is never right, I still think you are way over-reacting.

If Jet has ever done me out of a buck or two, that I hadn't planned on spending, I mustn't have thought it any big deal. Why not just consider it an entertainment cover charge for some entertainment you turned out not to enjoy.

For all you know, he'd just done a bank run, or made special change for someone. Maybe people had been giving him twenties all day. Since another person has piped up and said they also got the gum treatment, it's obviously a learned behaviour that has worked for him in the past.

I could be wrong, but I don't think he's living in a mansion on the hill because of his nefarious ways. Do you really want to potentially put a serious dent in his business just because you had a negative reaction to him?

You are starting to sound like a bully that would try to take a man's livelihood away from him, when you don't necessarily have all the details.

He's a character, not a bad man. Sure, his hotdogs are probably bad, but like Barnacle said . . .

How much is a packet of chewing gum now? Truly I do not know!

I think he is a sneaky, dirty, little old man! We went there one time because he was so advertised as the place to go and learned quickly we could not lose the man! We changed seats several times. He was everywhere. Admittedly it was a slower time of the day. He must have been surfing for $$$
Gum is gum, not money. If he is doing this to one he must be doing this to many. A lot of people go through that airport in a given day, week, month....

Fortunately everyone on this forum is allowed their opinion. I expressed mine based on an experience my wife and I had last Sunday. At least some of the posters here agree with me.
I have no axe to grind here, except that (and I repeat) what happened was a bad reflection on Belize.
In general Belizean people are friendly, honest and welcoming to their country. My feeling is that tourists need to be aware of prominent exceptions.