20+ actual ‘methods’, worldwide vacationers should beware

Here are some shares from worldwide vacationers after their journeys:

12. If an individual stands “touting”, making an attempt to lure you right into a restaurant, go away as shortly as potential.

13. If you wish to travel by tour, please prepare prematurely. A variety of well-known locations are surrounded by unofficial tour guides. They might have “official-looking” badges or uniforms, but when they method you and ask if you would like to rent a information, it is best to politely decline. Because lots of them haven’t any information of the vacation spot in any respect.

A information at Machu Pichu declared that the Incas had been “an ideal communist society”, then took a break halfway to attempt to promote us important oils.

Real tour guides won’t method you and push you into gross sales methods.

14. There is a Harry Potter-themed present store at Kings Cross station that may be very widespread with vacationers. Outside the shop there’s a free pictures store the place you possibly can pose like pushing a cart by way of Platform 9 3/4. This store is small however it’s at all times full of vacationers, the products are overpriced.

Also, watch out for any Harry Potter movie-related tour in London, beware. You simply get to take a seat in a small van, drive to see the totally different partitions and doorways round London, which has nothing to do with the film.

15. When touring in New Orleans, if somebody asks you the place you purchase your sneakers, the suitable reply is “from my feet”. If they ask the place you might be from, reply “from my mama”.

Keep going and do not cease for them to shine or clear your sneakers, they may cost you for it and for his or her “talk”.

16. If you are taking a taxi in Vietnam, know the path of your vacation spot or observe the route on the map in your cellphone, if potential. I used to be taken across the metropolis by a taxi driver for 45 minutes, solely to comprehend that my resort was solely a brief stroll away.

17. The Staten Island ferry (a borough of New York) is free. If somebody tries to cost you, they’re scammers.

18. If you’ve got gotten near a sure man in your journey, do not go along with that man if he says “his friend owns a nice, recent hotel”. There’s a excessive probability that it will not go nicely or be that shut.

19. If you are a lady planning to go to main church buildings, I like to recommend bringing a scarf to cowl your head – that is a basic rule.

I’ve seen too many occasions somebody in entrance of church buildings promoting shawls and headscarves at ridiculous costs, like 15 euros for a small, low cost scarf with the excuse “that’s how I’m allowed to enter a religious place”. “.

In Portugal, especially in Lisbon, pickpockets are rampant through public transport. One family member was almost pickpocketed 3 times in a few hours.

20. On one occasion, we wanted to visit the Colosseum in Rome. All the way there from the metro station, there are dozens of people offering “low cost excursions”. When you join this tour, you think you’ve found a “cut price” but actually you didn’t.

Admission tickets cost around €20 per person. However, the price in the Colosseum is only €12 for adults, or €2 for students. My wife and I received €14 because she still has a valid student card.

The same thing happened on the way to the Vatican. A group of people came to see us insisting that it would be much cheaper if we bought tickets to the museum from them. Things are not as they advertised.

21. If you go to Bangkok and on your way to the grand palace, you will meet people who seem friendly, trying to lie that the grand palace is closed due to some kind of ceremony. So they offer to take you by Tuk Tuk to other temples at an affordable price.

Along the way, the driver will try to gain your trust. After visiting the second temple or so, he’ll start talking about some great deals on a “make-to-order clothes”, “promo emeralds”… They will Try to entice you to spend as much money as possible until you get the driving fee. Be careful if you don’t want to be “out of pocket”.

22. In Phuket (Thailand), our taxi driver from the airport had to “cease a bit” at a travel agency, leaving us in the car because he needed to go to the bathroom.

We thought about getting out of the car but didn’t know where we were, how to get a new taxi (the situation was pretty scary at the time).

Then, one of the staff from that travel agency, with convincing English started approaching, trying to convince us to buy all kinds of tours, luxury hotels, dinners…

After we were adamant that we had our itinerary and weren’t looking to buy anything, he gave up and our driver returned a few minutes later. This is a rather frustrating, time-consuming experience.

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