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All passengers must wear a life jacket at all times.
A word of warning: watch your head as you go on board! I didn't, and hit my head on the low roof - it was very painful and produced a large bump which hurt for many days afterwards, amking it painful to wear a hat! Leave a Comment Theme: Ship/Boat
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You can hire a private taxi to the airport, but a cheaper alternative is one of the private shuttle buses.
There are a few companies in town, but a common and trusted one is "Ashruf"
For 40 SRD, they will pick you up or drop you off at any address you request.
Reservations are asked to be at least one day in advance.
Upon reservation, they will tell you the pick-up time. Depending on your location and the number of passengers, pick-up may be up to 4hrs before flight. Theme: BusPhone: +597 450102
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Taxis to Albina are not hard to find in Paramaribo, head to the market, as your looking at it, head left and you will
1. See the collective buses.
2. Start to hear people calling out to you for a taxi, and if you get close enough, they'll be all over you like a rash, fear not, they just want your business.
At this point you have 3 options.
1. You take the collective minibus, this is cheap (around 5-10euros, and they will take euros) and you will wait till the taxi is full, this is a lot of people, and it stops off all along the way, so it can take quite a long time too.
2. Take a taxi, this will be 15 euros per person but you will wait till the taxi is full (4 people).
3. Take a special taxi, this costs 60 euros for the cab, so if your 1 person, its quite expensive, 4 people, 15 euros each, but, you leave straight away.
Taxis will also do this if they are called to your hotel, but the rate can vary up to 90 euros/300SRD for this, and for the sake of walking to the taxi rank, it isn't worth it.
Whichever choice you make, the route between Paramaribo and Albina is FUN - depending on your will to live, of course. The route itself isn't that bad, a bit pot-holy in places, but OK, the drama is the speed at which the taxi guys go, and depending on how powerful their car is, depends on this speed, you can go as slow as 130km/h or as fast as 160km/h and most of the time you don't slow down for oncoming traffic, so stand by for involuntary reflexes all you drivers.
I find that if you have a good night out in Paramaribo the night before leaving, you can get some sleep in the car and this minimises any potential trauma you might experience. Expect the journey to take around an hour and a half in a special taxi, anything up to 3 hours in a collective (depending on stops). Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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There is a car ferry (quite a good one) that runs between Albina and St Laurent, usually in the mornings but also Sunday evening, if you take it through Suriname with the aim of entering French Guyana, make sure you have all your docs intact, and you're visas and entry stamps in order, cuz the ferry goes to the French Guianese customs terminal, so you will be checked. Leave a Comment Theme: Ship/Boat
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