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17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 [Next] - Pay for goods and services not received? No way. A caution to travellers to Japan. Be very wary about furnishing your credit card details when all you want is information about availability of accommodation. You may find you have authorized a payment for accommodation that you don't want. I recently went to the JapanHotel.Net site in my search for a hotel in Kyoto. I wanted to check availability in Kyoto Ryokan Kinoe, but found there was no way to do so on this site. When you click on the 'ask a question' button, you read: 'Please do not request availability information. We cannot give this information as it becomes outdated very quickly and the situation is often different when the guest tries to make a reservation.' So my only option if I wanted to find out about availability of rooms in Kinoe was to supply my credit card details and click on the 'reserve' button. Since I was shopping around at the time, I found and booked with another hotel that was cheaper and more convenient, not realizing that my enquiry with JapanHotel.Net had resulted in a confirmed booking. I returned home from my trip to Japan to discover that the hotel was classing me as a 'no-show' and applying the full penalty - 100% of the accommodation charge for two nights - a whopping £350 of pure profit, in return for no services whatsoever. I learned the hard way not to give out credit card details in advance of finding the right information. So, if you're looking for accommodation in Japan, be very careful not to let this happen to you. Editor's Note: or any other country! Ingrid Cranfield ID2091 - When on a long, multi-stop trip, take a photo of that part of your itinerary before heading out for sightseeing. Then, when the pictures are returned, you'll know exactly from which part of your journey they were taken - that day's/location's itineray will precede each set of pictures. Jan Haniffy ID153 - If staying in a chain operated hotel and service is unacceptable, and if the local manager refuses to accommodate reasonable requests or compensate for your suffering/discomfort, contact the headquarters of the hotel chain (can usually find their phone # by dialing Directory Assistance) and present the matter to headquarters. I did this when I was put in a filthy hotel room and the only option the local manager gave me (after validating that my room was filthy), was to transfer me to another room within the same hotel which turned out to be just as dirty (manager validated this as well but had no other options). I called headquarters that night (2 am) and they arranged hotel accommodations at one of their other (higher end) hotels nearby at the rate of the lower end hotel (with the dirty rooms), and gave me one night free of charge. Because they were helpful in resolving the problem immediately, I continue to patronize this hotel chain. Janie Wagner ID44 - Instead of buying post cards and mailing them, trying taking some of your personal pictures and send those instead! It costs the same as mailing regular post cards, but photos are much more appropriate to show everyone what you've seen and where you've been! Kat Santry ID549 - If you're not likely to keep a journal or quickly forget the details of the trip once you get home, buy up a bunch of cheap postcards and stamps and whenever you have a few minutes, write a postcard to yourself or others detailing a recent moment - not an overall 'having a wonderful time, wish you were here', but 'Just got back from climbing the tower in Notre Dame and found out my sister has claustrophobia! Climbing that narrow spiral stone staircase was almost too much for her - she clung to the rail all the way up!' Those moments are often lost, but you can save them if you get them down almost as quickly as they happen. I'm a big cafe writer and I use postcards a lot to jog my memory when I write articles. TravelWritingTips.com TravelWritingTips.com ID420 Would You Like to Add a Travel Tip?We welcome QUALITY travel tips from our users.Note: you will be required to enter the characters from a security image, so please make sure that you have your browser set to view images. (This measure was necessary to reduce spam.) You will be able to provide your URL, if applicable. Submit your travel tips and hints here. |
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