Quote: (04-22-2012 10:03 PM)AlphaTravel Wrote:
There's an American women in the net cafe I'm in and she's just thrown a massive strop over skype at her boyfriend about something that sounded so trivial, being a total bitch. Then she told the travel agent she needed a visa for Vietnam or something today, they told her not possible takes 48hrs then she said "YOU DONT UNDERSTAND I NEED THE VISA TODAY" in this really condesending, slow and loud voice as if they were just stupid and that they didn't understand how important she was. Then she argued with them over whether a bus should cost $5 or not as she knew a Cambodian who only paid $3. Fucking idiot, there's about 1000 more people just like her in this town from all over Europe. Cheap and full of their own self importance.
It IS often possible to break the rules. But you need to get the people responsible on your side. And you do that by being smooth, charming and convincing, not by being a bitch or asshole. It's people like the ones you described above who end up being treated badly while on holiday because of their attitude and then return home and bad-mouth the country. They need to realise that it is their attitude that gets them poor treatment. Even if the staff can't directly confront a tourist behaving badly due to company policy, using "passive aggresion" opens up a whole world of opportunity for them to get their revenge. Mysteriously, it's the obnoxious tourist whose entree comes out done all wrong while everyone else's is just right, who ends up it the rubbish hotel room right above the nightclub entrance etc. etc.