During our trip to Paris last Christmas we were repeatedly told to save our shopping receipts to present during our airport departure, thus allowing us to receive a refund on some of our taxed purchases.? As you already know, most countries employ a similar program.? We were further informed that this refund booth was located behind the security check points.? Despite arriving at the airport before 6 am, it was crowded!
We utilized Line #1 to per-cure our “carry-on” security stickers, Line #2 to obtain our boarding pass and present our additional “check-able” luggage, and Line#3 to actual be screened by security.? The attendant’s “pat-down” was so thorough, and my patience so low, that I told him that he should “at least buy me a drink first!”? He was not as amused as I was.?
Well, I guess the joke was really on me because after this ordeal, we came to find out the the ‘refund center’ is actual at the Terminal’s entry.? If we wanted our tax-refund we would have to exit and repeat the previous steps again to be rechecked and re-screened.? We chose to forget the refund and chalk it up to the cost of a valuable travel lesson!
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