• Recommended Vaccine Shots: Malaria
  

• Gourde: $1 = 39 gourdes (1/07) (see latest 
  rate & bills at Banque de la Republique 
  d'Haiti ("taux de change").
  
• US dollar is accepted everywhere

Airports: (12, 4 paved)
1. Mais Gate, Port-Au-Prince
2. Cap Haitien Internationa
3. Les Cayes
4. Port-de-Paix
5. Jacmel
6. Pignon

By Boat:

• Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines &Celebrity 
  Cruises go to Labadie (Labadee)near Cap-
  Haïtien.
  

TRANSPORTATION WITHIN HAITI:

CAR RENTAL:

• Rent SUVs for easier access to country roads, 
  especially during rainy season. Cost vary from 
  $100/day for small SUV to $140/day for large 7 
  passenger SUVs.
  
• Best to hire a chauffeur at $140-$200/week
  

• Car Rental Companies: SECOM (Tel: 225-71913 
  /info@secomhaiti.com)
  

• Asus Rent-A-Car

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TAXIS:

• Cost vary: daily personal hire/rental 
  $100US/day?
  
• Local trips around metropolitan capital 
  area: Avg $5 per trip. Taxis can be shared.
  
• MotorCycle Taxis
  

PUBLIC:

• Public buses to provincial cities; cost vary
  
• Tap-Taps (decorated vans/buses) to move 
  around capital ($1/trip)
  

By Boat:
1. To LaGonav from P-A-P
2. To LaGonav from Montrouis
3. To Jeremie

By Air: (~$100)

• Carib-Intair
  

Route de l'Aéroport, Port-au-Prince
011-509-298-3038/ 011-509-225-02031
www.caribintair.com
- Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien(North), 
Pignon (North), Hinche (Central)and Dame 
Marie (SW)

• Air MAF
  
• Tropical Airways:
  

From Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien, Port-
de-Paix and Jeremie

By BUS:

• Caribe Tours
  
• Terra Bus

TRANSPORTATION TO HAITI:
(prices as of 01/2007)


By Plane:

FROM USA:

• Agape Flights: 941-355-5099/ 
  gomissions@agapeflights.com

• Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) (to 
  Pignon)
  
• 
  
• Missionary Flights International (MFI)
  
(772) 462-2395
http://www.missionaryflights.org/about.htm


 

• DELTA  

  ($450 from JFK, NY)

 

•  Continental Airlines ($450 from Newark, NJ)

• United Airlines

  ($470 from Newark, NJ)

• American Airlines :
  
Ave. Marie-Jeanne, Port-au-Prince, Tél : 223-
13414, Daily 4hrs flight from JFK to P-A-P 
(4hrs): Round Trip ticket cost from $420 to 
$550 & or from Miami to P-A-P ( 2 hrs) 
$290-$410.


• Lynx Air:
  
1-888-lynx air, 3 flights/week to Cap-Haitien 
from Miami and Fort Lauderdale (Round trip 
ticket $366 -$453). Cargo: ~$1.50/lb


• Air France:
  
From Miami (RT $120-$160)

• Copa Airlines:
  

From New York to Panama to Port-au-
Prince ($388-$411), 7hrs

• Haitian Aviation Line SA (Halisa Air)
  
• Haiti National Airlines (HanAir)
  
• Spirit Airline:
  

Starting March '07 - From Fort-Lauderdale 
to Port-Au-Prince (Round Trip ~$186)

FROM CANADA:

• Air Canada: Round Trip Flights from 
  Montreal, Quebec City - 4hrs ($545 - $710)
  


FROM EUROPE:

• Airfrance.us: From Paris (Orly)(Round Trip 
  = $650-$980), 11-12hrs
  


FROM LATIN AMERICA:

Copa Airlines:
- Panama to Port-Au-Prince, 1hr30mns 
(from $273-$435)
- Also from any Latin America's capital
cities through Panama ($435+)


FROM THE CARIBBEAN:

• Aero Caribbean:
  
From Havana to Port-Au-Prince (Round 
Trip=$378-$502)

• Air Caraibes: From Guadeloupe (Round 
  Trip= €478 - €675)
  
• Tropical Airways d'Haiti:
  
From Bahamas and Turks and CaicosIslands 
to Port-Au-Prince & Cap-Haitien.

• Sky King Airlines:
  
From Turks & Caicos to Cap-Haitien($370, 1h15mns)

 IMMUNIZATIONS

Hepatitis A:  All travelers should be up-to-date on this vaccination.

Hepatitis B:  Important for those visiting the island for 6 months or more or having intimate contact with local residents,

Typhoid:  Travelers eating outside of hotels and restaurants should consider having this vaccination.

Rabies: People who may have contact with local animals should have this.

Malaria: Rx pills

Routine immunizations: All travelers should be up-to-date on tetanus-diphtheria, measles-mumps-rubella, polio, and varicella immunizations.

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TELEPHONE

Area Code: 509

Cellular phones on Haiti operate at the same frequency as those in the USA, which is 1900 MHZ. It's best to buy/rent a local cell phone or sim card.

Main providers:

Digicel

Voila