Pros and Cons o Traveling with a "Western" passport

[maggieNomar 0]

During my 3 visits to Morocco I was never bothered. When my daughter and I left Amsterdam for Morocco, we were the only 2 I noticed who were not patted down. Only issue was being nearly interrogated by the Amsterdam TSA on our way back from Morocco on this more recent trip. They asked more in depth questions than the consualate once they found our reason for going to Morocco.

What is an HU passport Henia?

[mybackpages 0]

During my 3 visits to Morocco I was never bothered. When my daughter and I left Amsterdam for Morocco, we were the only 2 I noticed who were not patted down. Only issue was being nearly interrogated by the Amsterdam TSA on our way back from Morocco on this more recent trip. They asked more in depth questions than the consualate once they found our reason for going to Morocco.

What is an HU passport Henia?

HU = Hungarian

Sorry Henia, you are slow on the tigger

[Donna A 4]

i never had any problems with mine. my friend did some traveling and she said they usually dont bother u at the airports but if u r going thru border u can run into problems.

[jordanianprincess 0]

When my parents and I went to Jordan they used their Jordanian Passports to enter and I used my US passport since I never had a Jordanian one issued.

The difference? Not much. I needed to pay $30 bucks for a visa, they didnt. They didn't have a time limit on their stay, I did. Thankfully the customs agent gave me a month to stay in Jordan instead of the usual 2 weeks so I didn't have to apply for an extention.

While I was there I got my Jordanian passport and ID issued which I will use the next time I travel.

[Henia 11]

Good Idea!

[asdffdas 0]

I sometimes had a hard time catching taxis. I guess some drivers didn't want to be bothered with the white guy. I also got hassled a lot for extra tips. I guess that's to be expected though. This was in Jordan.

[jordanianprincess 0]

I sometimes had a hard time catching taxis. I guess some drivers didn't want to be bothered with the white guy. I also got hassled a lot for extra tips. I guess that's to be expected though. This was in Jordan.

The only issue I had with Jordanian taxi driviers was wondering if I would get out of the cab alive. Crazy drivers.

[~Jackie~ 30]

We took a taxi thru Amman for a few hours while getting papers to marry and I felt the same way! Oh please let me live. It was miracle there were not more crashes. BEEP BEEP BEEP

Jackie

[jordanianprincess 0]

We took a taxi thru Amman for a few hours while getting papers to marry and I felt the same way! Oh please let me live. It was miracle there were not more crashes. BEEP BEEP BEEP

Jackie

The funniest cab situation we had was during Ramadan. This cab driver picked us up and he had the quran blarrrrrrrrrrrring. So he looks at us and sees that we are christian by our necklaces and he looks at my dad and says excuse me sir, would you mind if I smoke? My dad started laughing and said if you want to smoke then why are you blasting the quran on your radio? It was so funny.

Ohhhh and one time my fiance and I took a cab to go somewhere. It was my first few days in Jordan and I was still adjusting. When we got in the cab I was assuming we would both be sitting in the back seat, well apparently the cab driver gave my fiance the evil eye and he decided to sit in the front and have me sit alone in the back. I was pissed! I let him have it when we got out of the cab and he was just laughing the whole time telling me to calm down.

[Henia 11]

We took a taxi thru Amman for a few hours while getting papers to marry and I felt the same way! Oh please let me live. It was miracle there were not more crashes. BEEP BEEP BEEP

Jackie

The funniest cab situation we had was during Ramadan. This cab driver picked us up and he had the quran blarrrrrrrrrrrring. So he looks at us and sees that we are christian by our necklaces and he looks at my dad and says excuse me sir, would you mind if I smoke? My dad started laughing and said if you want to smoke then why are you blasting the quran on your radio? It was so funny.

Ohhhh and one time my fiance and I took a cab to go somewhere. It was my first few days in Jordan and I was still adjusting. When we got in the cab I was assuming we would both be sitting in the back seat, well apparently the cab driver gave my fiance the evil eye and he decided to sit in the front and have me sit alone in the back. I was pissed! I let him have it when we got out of the cab and he was just laughing the whole time telling me to calm down.

O snaps....Wicked funny!

[Ban Hammer 13,475]

We took a taxi thru Amman for a few hours while getting papers to marry and I felt the same way! Oh please let me live. It was miracle there were not more crashes. BEEP BEEP BEEP

Jackie

lol sounds familiar. i think the first thing a taxi driver in brazil has to show proficiency in is honking the horn

[jordanianprincess 0]

We took a taxi thru Amman for a few hours while getting papers to marry and I felt the same way! Oh please let me live. It was miracle there were not more crashes. BEEP BEEP BEEP

Jackie

lol sounds familiar. i think the first thing a taxi driver in brazil has to show proficiency in is honking the horn

Ok I am now having nightmares of the constant horn honking in Jordan...please make it stop. Seriously there were times when the honking irritated me soooo much that I want to get out of the car and just hit the people that were honking. When I realized that my fiance was also a honker lol, I would give him the evil eye anytime a light turned green. He stopped honking bcz of me. Well maybe just while I was there. lol

[Ban Hammer 13,475]

When I realized that my fiance was also a honker lol,

[cbd2cai 0]

We took a taxi thru Amman for a few hours while getting papers to marry and I felt the same way! Oh please let me live. It was miracle there were not more crashes. BEEP BEEP BEEP

Jackie

It was like that in Cairo too!!! Every time I got in a taxi. Not just honking horns (which bothered my ears plenty), but no stopping at traffic signals, not paying attention to lanes, cars double/tripled parked (just pay your baksheesh to the local guy and he'd take care of it) and pedestrians running across the street any which way. You had to learn how to cross the street in Cairo since no one would stop!! Oh, and one of my all time favorites . . . when the taxi driver would backup down the street for a long way to turn around and get to the crossover point going back the opposite direction (instead of going down the street for awhile) . . . that always caused a ruckus.

I found it hard to sleep in downtown Cairo due to all the honking horns. . . . plus all the other insane noise until everyone decided it was time to sleep . . . I think that was about 4 hours before the early morning crowd got started.