Chongqing Changjiang/Yangtze River Warning!

Chongqing Changjiang/Yangtze River Warning!
Jul 17, 2006 06:18
ALICEGAO Points: Join Date: Jun 5, 2006 Status: offline	Be particularly alert when choosing a service if you're planning a tour of the three gorges area. We, despite our best efforts, were severely ripped off! We were shown luxurious, fantastic photos of first class cabins and after a week of laying low due to an unfortunate accident in which I was burned, we decided to shell out the extra cash for first class - about 1,500 kuai per ticket. We were assured our rooms were the rooms from the picture and all tickets and everything except food was included. In the end, our cabin was smaller than your average Chinese toilet, dingy, dirty, smelly and either unpleasantly hot or cold. We were met with amazingly gruff and unfriendly (often bordering on rude) service, aggressive hawking of various wares, etc. We were provided with a "tourguide" who did nothing except show up and ask us to buy tickets. For the two times our tickets <i>were</i> included, she was nowhere to be found and we spent a good part of the time allotted for touring these boring sites looking for her. We were also made to buy a ticket (first priced at 120 kuai each, later " discounted" to the real price of 40 once we saw that written on the ticket itself) in order to simply go to the parts of the boat where one could see the surrounding scenery, and almost none of the tickets were included. We were asked to pay for almost every one of our stops, excepting two (which noone would really want to see anyway). The worst of which was the actual three gorges dam, where we were not told that our tickets weren't included and we got off the boat, went up in the lift, and suddenly saw our boat departing. We were then completely stuck; buy a ticket to tour the damned dam for 150 kuai or buy a bus ticket to where the boat would meet us for 30. Long story short, You could say it about doing anything anywhere, but be really careful when you embark on a tour of the three gorges. At all costs avoid 重庆市纵横旅业有限公司 (Chongqing Zongheng Travel agency ltd.), right near the train station!! Don't get ripped off like we did!

Jul 17, 2006 06:18

ALICEGAO
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Be particularly alert when choosing a service if you're planning a tour of the three gorges area. We, despite our best efforts, were severely ripped off! We were shown luxurious, fantastic photos of first class cabins and after a week of laying low due to an unfortunate accident in which I was burned, we decided to shell out the extra cash for first class - about 1,500 kuai per ticket. We were assured our rooms were the rooms from the picture and all tickets and everything except food was included.

In the end, our cabin was smaller than your average Chinese toilet, dingy, dirty, smelly and either unpleasantly hot or cold. We were met with amazingly gruff and unfriendly (often bordering on rude) service, aggressive hawking of various wares, etc. We were provided with a "tourguide" who did nothing except show up and ask us to buy tickets. For the two times our tickets <i>were</i> included, she was nowhere to be found and we spent a good part of the time allotted for touring these boring sites looking for her. We were also made to buy a ticket (first priced at 120 kuai each, later "
discounted" to the real price of 40 once we saw that written on the ticket itself) in order to simply go to the parts of the boat where one could see the surrounding scenery, and almost none of the tickets were included. We were asked to pay for almost every one of our stops, excepting two (which noone would really want to see anyway). The worst of which was the actual three gorges dam, where we were not told that our tickets weren't included and we got off the boat, went up in the lift, and suddenly saw our boat departing. We were then completely stuck; buy a ticket to tour the damned dam for 150 kuai or buy a bus ticket to where the boat would meet us for 30.

Long story short, You could say it about doing anything anywhere, but be really careful when you embark on a tour of the three gorges. At all costs avoid 重庆市纵横旅业有限公司 (Chongqing Zongheng Travel agency ltd.), right near the train station!! Don't get ripped off like we did!

Jul 18, 2006 23:14	#1
CONNY129 Points: Join Date: May 25, 2005 Status: Offline	I'm really sorry to hear of your unfortunate experience ,but anyway ,thanks for sharing it with us ,so that we would be aware of that agency .

Jul 19, 2006 02:02	#2
UNCLEGAV Points: Join Date: Jul 17, 2006 Status: Offline	Ha, my mates went on the same one and got screwed over cos the boat didn't finish the tour and they had to go the last 600 kms in a bus. But then my girlfriend and her mates went on the same one again, and all was good. Guess they just got lucky.

Jul 20, 2006 09:42

YINMEI
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Hi there,as you know,the first class cabin is RMB1022 each,and the new dam ticket is just RMB125 each,including bus tour.So when you choose service,you have to be alert.In fact,everything will be very expensive near the train station,bus station and air port.I assure that i can provide best service and price for Yangtze downstream from Chongqing to Yichang tour.
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Jul 27, 2006 02:22	#4
ALICEGAO Points: Join Date: Jun 5, 2006 Status: Offline	Thank you for your reply, of course we can't get our money back, the reason I still mentioned about this terrible Yangtze cruise experince is just because I don't want to see more people get cheated as us, so be careful, all travel-lovers.

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