Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists
🇧🇷 My friend booked a very nice upscale hotel in Rio de Janeiro
But to pay for the booking online they required to enter a Brazilian taxpayer number (CPF), so he called them and said he doesn't have a CPF
No problem they said, they'll sent a new payment form without CPF where foreigners can enter their passport
This payment for required a Brazilian phone number though
The catch-22? To get a Brazilian phone number you need a CPF number!
And recently the Brazilian government made it much harder for foreigners to get that, in my case I had to physically visit the Brazilian embassy in Lisbon and wait for an hour to get my CPF
So he had to physically go there to pay
Brazil really needs to fix this stuff or it's never going to get more tourists because it's so hard to pay for things here! And it's not just hotels!
Because in everything else Brazil is so hospitable and inviting to gringos
PLEASE FIX THIS BRAZIL!
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