I wonder if they charge extra for that :-)
Just damn!
one for your just damn ping list perhaps
I can't believe that a seasoned business traveler didn't check his ticket's destination as soon as the ticket was issued. This doesn't make any sense to me at all. What kind of crap airline was he flying on? I've flown on many flights, on many different airlines, throughout Asia and they always come on before takeoff and give you info in English about the flight and destination even if it isn't an American airline.
We returned to the empty dock around 3:00 AM with no money, had to sleep on tables in the market then locate the shipping agent's office in the AM. We were given a train ticket to the next port (which was in Yugoslavia). We were supposed to get off the train and get another one after we made it from Italy up and into northern Yugoslavia. We wound up in a tiny town in the mountains, where no one spoke english. We managed to get a train to go down to our port, only to learn that she ship had come, loaded up and departed (to go back to Italy where we started).
We again found a shipping agent, got some meal money and another train ticket back to Italy. Two more days on the train and we finally caught up with the ship.
We wound up getting paid time and a half for the four days, as it wasn't our fault in the first place, but it was not fun!
Oh, they ALL say THAT...:)
Dang!
Interesting story. Maybe he will get his own TV show to compete with "Stranded with Cash Peters"
"Nelson said he ended up at a brothel, and had to "damn near fight my way out."
I'll bet!
Wow. What a sissy this putz is. *sob*
What a crybaby.
BS! There are more english speaking chinese people in mainland China, than there americans in CONUS.
Stranded in China without money? A bit hard to believe.
Chinese going out of their way to help? that's a joke.
IMHO, this seasoned traveller fell in "love" with a tiger girl and was cleaned out; too embarassed to state what really happened.
LMAO! What a wuss this guy is-and his story doesn't even pass the smell test-fighting his way out of a brothel, being "stranded" in a city of over a million people-I don't think so...
Nobody fles to a country ("Taiwan").
They fly to a city ("Taipei") or, better, a specific airport ("Sung Shan"). Better yet, especially when traveling overseas, one should use the international airport acronym ("TW") when booking flights.
Intel should have kept this dumb@$$ in Califoria -- where all he needs to know to commute is the ability to read a bit of Spanish...
This guy's a pussy. I traveled around in China by myself for six months in 1987. Trains and buses and cheap accomodations the whole way. I knew not a single word of Chinese when I got there. When I left, I could count to ten, I knew the characters for "man" and "woman"(bathrooms were so marked), and I could say "beer", "rice", "how much money" and "too expensive". I made out just fine. Ate every day and slept indoors every night. And I never had to fight my way out of a brothel once. Like I said, this guy's a pussy.