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Thread: Would you love to join in my vacation??
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[quote=SHESGOTTOBE,256919]I think you should read this thread: http://community.travelchinaguide.com/forum2.asp?i=36850 It's about the tourist traps us travelers encounter while in China. I intend to post there, just never had the chance yet. Personally, I haven't had any bad experience with tourist guides since I travel alone. I refuse to join tour groups because I want to explore at my own pace, on my own time. I also don't want to be limited on what can I see or where can I go. I don't wanna be dragged into some factory and be pressured to buy stuff I don't really intend to buy. I'm the kind who if I love the place, I would keep coming back to it. This is why I want to go back to China. My bad experience was with taxi drivers when I was in Beijing. I was so naive to hail a "taxi" in front of the Summer Palace. The driver charged me 150 yuan from Summer Palace to Peking University because he said there's a heavy traffic. Not only that, when I gave him the 150 yuan, he switched my two real 100 yuan with two fake 100 yuan. Again, I was so naive. He said that the first 100 yuan has a tear on the middle. Well, I don't remember it having a tear but then I never memorize how the money I have in possession looks like. The second one he said has a tear on the side. The only time I learned that I had fake 100 yuan was when I tried to exchange them at the bank because of the tear. The bank confiscated them from me. Bottomline, I actually lost 350 yuan on that very short trip. 350 yuan is not much. I guess losing the money is tough but the feeling that you have been fooled/cheated on is even worse. These are some of the reasons why it is hard for us to trust. I hate to think what would happen in the Olympics. Some other taxi drivers charged me 30 yuan for a trip that would only cost 11 yuan had they used the taxi meter. An Iranian tourist I know was charged 800 yuan from the airport to his hotel in Beijing. [/quote]
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