I am going to take one issue with this, when I was in Egypt everything had a local price and a western price. If I tried to buy a sandwich or bottle of water from a local shop the price would always start 3 to 5 times what a local could walk in and buy it at.
I am not taking about 5 star restaurants just local street vendors. After a few minutes of haggling many of them would drop the price to the local market price. Others would simply turn down the sale.
I wasn't asking for anything special, I wanted the same sandwich the Egyptians were buying.
Originally Posted by
sleeplessinNL
Problem with some people is that when they travel to exotic places:
- they feel superior to the locals as they are from the western world, and expect special service
- due to this superiority they expect the first world services
- and at the same time they want to pay what the locals pay for these first world services.
I guess, such people should just stay or visit US/Europe. Nobody is forcing them to go to Asia anyways.
Well traveled and open minded people always know - What you pay is what you get!
Nothing is free in this world - if you want to be treated special, then you gotta pay for it!