San Salvador (city only) and Panama City: same-date qualified references

Retained research dates and party: 2027-02-09 → 2027-02-15 · 2 adults · 1 room · 6 nights · 7 calendar days · 14 person-days

Both references use identical retained dates and party basis, so they can be read side by side. They are not like-for-like products, bookings or all-in prices, and the difference between them is not a saving: each subtotal omits different unknown charges and covers a different scope.

San Salvador (city only)

El Salvador

Selected scope and exclusions

San Salvador city only, with MUNA. Suchitoto is optional and NOT selected or credited.

Qualified reference subtotal: USD 2688.88 (USD 192.06 per person per calendar day)

All-in payable total: unknown (not zero)

Components (source currency, quantity as sourced)

  • Room — displayed lodging amount, six nights: USD 1,408

    Already-extended subtotal; not multiplied by quantity again.

  • Meals, drinks and water with selected conditional 13%-then-10% charges (28.8 L water): USD 432.88

    Already-extended subtotal; not multiplied by quantity again.

  • Airport return transfer: USD 65

    Already-extended subtotal; not multiplied by quantity again.

  • Seven driver days (city only): USD 763

    Already-extended subtotal; not multiplied by quantity again.

  • MUNA admission for two adults: USD 20

    Already-extended subtotal; not multiplied by quantity again.

Conditional alternatives (separate cases)

  • Case: menu prices already include IVA — USD 2640.94 (USD 188.64 per person per calendar day)

    Supplier treatment unconfirmed; not a market band or cap.

  • Case: 13% and 10% on the same base — USD 2684.52 (USD 191.75 per person per calendar day)

    Supplier treatment unconfirmed; not a market band or cap.

  • Selected case: 13% then 10% — USD 2688.88 (USD 192.06 per person per calendar day)

    Supplier treatment unconfirmed; not a market band or cap.

  • Named entry components: USD 0 (ordinary tourist visa application; repealed TMI)

    Zero is limited to these named source-supported components. Total arrival/departure and other applicable charges remain unknown.

Room, board and payment notes
  • Use the supplier's tax-and-fee-inclusive displayed quote. No separate tax percentage is imported from Gemini, another hotel or another rate. No charge beyond the supplier statement was disclosed in the viewed rate; a final checkout/invoice total was not obtained.
  • Daily adult breakfast is explicit in the two-adult offer. Additional breakfasts cost the restaurant's regular price. Coffee/tea equipment does not prove included drinks. Water bottle size is unknown, so no purchased-water reduction. Generic complimentary-breakfast amenity is preserved but is not used to qualify the unselected lower rate.
  • Only credit-card guarantee and the conditional charge/prepayment handling stated in the rate modal are established. No card was entered and no reservation was created.
Retained limits and unknowns
  • The room total is displayed in whole USD. The cents in these combined figures arise from arithmetic with displayed menu/component values; they do not establish cent-accurate lodging or a final supplier invoice. Unpriced transport/fulfilment conditions and actual tax treatment remain unresolved.
  • Sheraton non-member Stay for Breakfast quote explicitly includes taxes/all fees. No17%or other hotel tax is imported from Gemini or another rate. Finer price breakdown and final checkout are unobserved; future price,fees,inventory and terms can change.
  • Named-room bathroom features are primary,while literal private-bath confirmation is secondary exact-category corroboration. No accessible-room or step-free guarantee is asserted.
  • Card guarantee is stated;deposit amount,timing,balance collection and no-show term remain unprinted. Cancel before23:59hotel-local February7for no charge;late feeUSD234.82as printed. No deposit-free or pay-later claim;no card,reservation or hold.
  • Twelve daily adult breakfasts cover February10–15as a meal-slot allocation;two February9breakfasts stay paid. The hotel buffet is not asserted to match the replaced dish. All14coffees and42paid drinks remain;unmeasured hotel water bottles give no litre credit.
  • Kuskatán lists10%gratuity. The retained historical legal source supports conditional13%IVA cases;actual inclusion,charge base and compounding for the branch are unknown. None of the three cases is a legal ruling,payable range or guaranteed upper bound.
  • Four12×600mlwater packs total28.8L andUSD16.20tax-inclusive goods. Price is an unselected-store online reference,not confirmed Escalón shelf parity. Physical collection during a priced driver day is selected;stock,handling/fulfilment fee,cargo,hotel storage and pre-collection supply are unconfirmed. No online order,pickup order or delivery is implied.
  • Airport returnUSD65is one product,not doubled by direction or adults. SevenUSD109driver days andMUNAUSD20pair admission are separate source-owned references. Exact service acceptance,route/duty-hour fit,parking,tolls,overtime,payment/cancellation and any unprinted extras retain their original limits;no restaurant tax applied to transport.
  • Sheraton is in the retained San Salvador city zone. MUNA uses the already priced driver day;no Villa Florencia walking assumption transferred. Breakfast substitution does not save driver days or create an extra coffee trip. Suchitoto and additional paid attractions remain unselected.
  • Seven full comparison days and proposed meal windows are editorial. Flights,hotel breakfast hours,early/late access,luggage arrangements and exact arrival/departure meal fit remain unknown. Future restaurant,retail,museum and road conditions need rechecking.
  • The preserved Saudi ordinary-passport categoryA supports no tourist-visa application component;namedTMIwas repealed. These zero components do not prove zero total arrival/departure cost. Passport,CA4,status,customs,carrier/transit and health-source conflicts remain country-level qualifications;no actual traveller clearance.
  • Source check dates remain distinct from October5local reuse. The September28–October27,2026state-of-exception window is not projected toFebruary2027. Historical climate is not a forecast;3–4day editorial duration is separate from7daycosting. Original numeric scores,bands,image and production identity remain unassigned.

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Panama City

Panama

Selected scope and exclusions

Panama City scope only. Islands, beaches and canal extensions beyond the selected plan are not selected.

Qualified reference subtotal: USD 3823.17 (USD 273.08 per person per calendar day)

All-in payable total: unknown (not zero)

Components (source currency, quantity as sourced)

  • Novotel Superior King flexible breakfast-inclusive rate: USD 998.80 · 6 × room-night for two adults (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 172.70+169.40+169.40+169.40+160.60+157.30

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Observed Feb9–15 rate includes10%accommodation tax;12breakfast portions credited once. No prepayment; first-night cancellation/no-show exposure172.70 after cutoffFeb8 23:59, timezone unstated. Availability was observed, not reserved.

  • 30 paid meal portions and28 drinks: USD 877 · 14 × person-days (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 775food+102drinks

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Plus12hotel breakfasts gives42meal portions. Caleta is upscale; this is a particular scenario, not a city-average or budget floor. Saturday uses Bucaneros; other lunches LaFinka.

  • Conditional7%restaurant tax: USD 61.39 · 1 × conditional tax on877 (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 877×0.07

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Applied once if displayed restaurant prices exclude tax and suppliers are within the rule. Service/compulsory gratuity/payment charges remain unknown; voluntary-tip law is not a supplier invoice.

  • 28Aquafina1Lunits: USD 28 · 28 × one-litre product units (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 28×1.00

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Public display1.00 conflicts with metadata0.97; separate alternative retained. Physical Albrook collection planned, with shelf-price parity, stock, pickup/packing fees and tax unknown.

  • 18separate four-hour private-car allocations: USD 1,719.54 · 18 × four-hour vehicle products (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 18×95.53

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    All18planned windows conditionally reuse the Feb10 08:00reference; none exactly matches it. Vehicles1 is controlling; Adult1summary and capacity3on the2-hour option remain qualified. This is72vehicle-hours, not a market average or minimum transport cost.

  • Private Tocumen–city hotel return: USD 60 · 1 × return vehicle product for1–2passengers (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: one published return product

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Full advance online payment and at least2daysnotice published. No payment made. Exact flight times,baggage,waiting/cancellation and Novotel-specific pickup not confirmed. City-center coverage is a geographic inference from El Cangrejo. General no-extra-tax policy retained, not a dated invoice.

  • Panamá Viejo foreign adult entry: USD 34 · 2 × foreign nonresident adults (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 2×17

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Primary authority tariff uses$;the matchingUSD17is corroborated by a separate operator listing. This is not a newly explicitISOlabel on the authority page. Walk within site;no unpricedguide/internal-shuttleclaim.ThursdayfitsTue–Sunhours.

  • Ordinary self-guided park entry: USD 10 · 2 × foreign ordinary adults (already-extended subtotal)

    Calculation: 2×5

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Ordinary self-guided fee,with specificUSDcorroboration fromViator. The6foreign operator/guide category is excluded because no guide accompanies the selected visit. Driver waits outside;transport-company classification at gate is not independently confirmed. If treated as operator arrival,the separate6category may apply and must be revised explicitly. Trails/weather/closures remain conditional.

  • Miraflores nonresident entry includingIMAX: PAB 34.44 · 2 × nonresident adults (already-extended subtotal) · USD 34.44

    Calculation: 2×17.22

    Already extended subtotal; never multiply amount by quantity again.

    Tickets08:00–17:00,visit08:00–18:00. Ship transit andfuturefilmshowtimeunconfirmed;no separateIMAXcharge.

Conditional alternatives (separate cases)

  • Alternative: source water price 1.00 → 0.97 only (all other inputs unchanged) — USD 3822.33 (USD 273.02 per person per calendar day)
  • Alternative: park pair USD 12 only if private-car arrival falls under the separate operator category — USD 3825.17 (USD 273.23 per person per calendar day)
  • If the departure charge is not in the airfare (pair USD 80) — USD 3903.17 (USD 278.80 per person per calendar day)

    Current FCDO says normally included in the airline ticket. Zero added here prevents duplication with separately excluded airfare; it does not mean the charge is free. If not included, a conditional USD80 pair allowance applies, subject to actual2027 rate and exemptions.

  • Visa application in the selected nationality branch: USD 0 (narrow inference; all entry charges unknown)

    Narrow planning inference from no visa application in the selected nationality branch.

Room, board and payment notes
  • The public six-night Superior king comparison is captured for two adults on the retained February dates. The breakfast-inclusive flexible candidate is US$998.80, with taxes included, no prepayment and first-night cancellation/no-show exposure after the free-cancellation cutoff. Membership discounts are not applied. Availability is a dated observation, not a booking or guarantee.
  • Native PAB is preserved; historical same-table USD/PAB ratio1. Sum with Decimal before display rounding. No future card/consumer conversion guarantee.
  • Retained same-table historical midmarket ratio; preserve native PAB. Not a supplier USD quote, consumer exchange rate or February2027 guarantee.
Currency basis

Retained historical same-table rate, table time 2026-10-03T16:00:00Z (https://www.xe.com/en-gb/currencytables/?from=BTN): USD per PAB 1 (USD per BTN 0.010383389851349938; PAB per BTN 0.010383389851349938). Method: Retained same-table historical midmarket ratio; preserve native PAB. Not a supplier USD quote, consumer exchange rate or February2027 guarantee.

Retained limits and unknowns
  • The city-car quote is USD 95.53 for February 10 at 08:00. All eighteen planned windows conditionally reuse it; none matches exactly. Vehicles 1 and the private-car description support the vehicle estimate, but Adult:1 conflicts and three-person capacity is printed only on the two-hour option. Two-adult four-hour use remains a bounded same-product interpretation, not verified capacity.
  • Tourist places not include is interpreted as separately payable admissions beside the city-wide driver promise. Actual operator acceptance of the proposed stops, consecutive service, time, fuel, tolls, parking, tax, payment and overtime charges remain qualified.
  • Room price, tax and board are retained dated evidence. The default saver sidebar differs from the inspected breakfast-rate modal; checkout is 13:00 on Accor versus 12:00 on Trip.com. Four referenced JPGs are expressly archival/unbundled; retained full text controls the room review.
  • Food uses concrete upscale choices and conditional restaurant tax. Unknown service/payment fees remain null. Water display 1.00 versus metadata 0.97, online/shelf parity, 28-unit stock, collection fees and cargo/receipt limits are preserved.
  • Ordinary park entry is USD 10 for two; a separate USD 12 case applies only if operator-arrival classification is required. Secondary venue-specific currency corroboration is labelled. Miraflores stays native PAB 34.44 with historical parity conversion and no duplicate IMAX.
  • Saudi entry is a country-level reference, not personal clearance. The national three-month/500 reference, British six-month/1,000 guidance and scoped profiling notice remain distinct. Proof of means is not a fee. Departure USD 40 each is normally ticket-included, with actual inclusion unknown.
  • Historical climate, future menu/rate availability, arrival/departure timing, site operation and current travel conditions are not guarantees. Provider holds remain; no new access was attempted by this reviewer.
  • The package remains inactive. Image, actual booking checks, production integration/testing and publication are separate. All-in payable total and numeric market bands remain null.

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