Venezuela Warnings or Dangers

Have patience --Getting out or Venezuela is a real chore. We were met by airline employee who led us to a point of pick up by bus, which took us from the National to the International Terminal of the Caracas Terminal. Checking in for our flight home was an interesting experience.
A. When we entered the airling ticket booth we were met by a military type, who examined our passports,
B. Then we passed on to 2 ladies sitting at a table in front of the ticket counter, they examined our passports and attached a small sticker on it.
C. From there we passed on the the ticket counter where they made photocopies of our passport and gave them to us along with seat assignments and a paper boarding pass,
D. Then we passed through the metal detector and luggage scanner and were told that we would have to have a airport tax receipt to proceed and had to return to near where the ladies were sitting,
E. Where another booth with a man selling tax receipts for only $29 each.
F. We returned through the metal detector to the concourse.
G. We noted T/O time to be 1:30 for our flight so we explored the airport a bit and found a nice bar and had enough beer to get rid of most of our surplus Bolivars.
H. We proceed to our gate where boarding was scheduled to start at 12:45.
I. There we were met at the gate by a woman who wanted to see out ticket stub, the copy of our passport and our passport. She removed the sticker the others had attached, and gave us a boarding pass.
J. We then had our hand luggage manually searched by 3 women and
K. We then assumed the posture of the crucifix as we were checked for metal with wands.
L. We sat down and waited while the waiting room slowly filled up,
M. At 1:00 the effects of the beer were becoming felt, but there was no way out of this gate and no rest rooms.
N. About 50 kids who had been on a church mission arrived and really crowded up the waiting room.
O. They finally called for boarding and on the down ramp, prior to boarding the plane the men and women were separated and we assumed the above position again while we were manually frisked.
P. I guess they are afraid of high jackers. We boarded the old 727 and rushed to the rest rooms.
1:30 Takeoff took the entire runway to lift the fully loaded flight off the ground.

Venezuela Warnings or Dangers

Visiting Venezuela?

Visiting Venezuela?