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Do you let others or things annoy you when travelling?Or do you just ignore it.If not, post examples1. Americans asking questions in a museum (it will be a moronically stupid child level question of ignorance).2. French/Dutch accent is heard nearby3. Queue skipping
>>2651099Thisis what I'm talking about. Too many """tourists""" out there like you who have 0 respect for anything but yourself. What happenedto the whole "leave no trace, leave only pictures"?Seems your ilk want to ruin that for us, too.
>>2648295>as established by the 1895 will of Sswweeddiisshh chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred NobelPicrel really makes you wonder if this is a solid way of judging anything.
>>2651070Yes, per capita controls for population size. Are you retarded?
>>2651255>t. entitled pos that thinks everyone around him needs to stop what theyre doing to let him take endless tedious pictures of landmarks that have been photographed millions of times already, and that they'll never look at again
>>2651207Or just, you know, tell them to stop.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/airlines-give-automatic-refunds-canceled-flights-delayed-3/story?id=109573733New airline rules in america>Good news for airline travelers: the Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced it is rolling out new rules that will require airlines to automatically give cash refunds to passengers for canceled and significantly delayed flights.>Airlines can now decide how long a delay must be before a refund is issued -- however, these new rules define "significant" delay standards that trigger refunds. The delays covered would be more than three hours for domestic flights and more than six hours for international flights, the agency said.>This includes tickets purchased directly from airlines, travel agents and third-party sites such as Expedia and Travelocity.>The DOT rules lay out that passengers will be "entitled to a refund if their flight is canceled or significantly changed, and they do not accept alternative transportation or travel credits offered.">DOT will also require airlines to give cash refunds if your bags are lost and not delivered within 12 hours.
>>2650011In such cases you just take it to a lawyer company that specializes in these. You give them your case, and they do everything for you. It costs nothing for you if they lose, if they win they get a cut of the compensation claim.
>>2650011I would just dispute the charge on my credit card.
>>2650004All this means is prices will increase to offset their losses. yay
>>2650011>>Had this in Europe for a long time.Not only do we have this in Europe for a long time, airlines also have to pay you compensation between on top of the refund. Between 250 and 600€ depending on the distance of your flight.
>>2651270If I'm not wrong, I think it's even better than that as it doesn't have to be an European company but any flight that is related to the EU (departure, arrival, transit).
Bún chả editionOr, "why is there not already an active general" editionWhere my Việt Nam chads at?
>>2651280>flood every country with white DORKS.No thanks. They will drive up rental price, short-time boom boom price etc. Portugal and Mexico local got sick of the white digital nomad dorks.
>>2651281They're ok in tiny numbers. Once they become the majority, they will get crowd confidence. They will become uppity and entitled like white dorks. They will start doing gang rapes. It's part of the jeet DNA.
>>2651295I'm white and I'm forced to admit I agree with you. I'm still staying though. Gotta turn your kids into ESL retards.
>slav begging for money in Saigon, circa 2024.Vietnamese people are tired of white dorks.
>>2651298At least you have a sense of awareness and humility. I respect that.
My expectations were low, but holy crap. As a foreigners, I literally can't do anything here. Can't buy a sim card, can't open any useful aps, can't buy train tickets online... can't even pay for a KFC burger at the Hangzhou airport because I couldn't pay with Wechat pay! holy shiet bros. Why is China so hostile to foreigners right now?
>>2636981Taiwan has too much gangsters
>>2650821absolute codswallop you fucking munter
Not reading this dumb threadGet airalo for simGet trip.com for trainGet vpn for googleI did all this without wechat, which is not hard to set up you just need an sms verification which is hard when traveling. Once I had this figured out I found China to be really awesome even when speaking no Chinese. Leave Beijing and Shanghai. Without wepay I just waived cash in cabbies’ faces and they always took it.If you want everything to work exactly as you expect it to, stay home
>>2651097>Not reading this dumb thread>Yet still participating in itgrim
>>2633009Are the chinese as racist as people say? Not necessarily having stereotypes towards dark skinned people, but straight up looking down on them?
Let's talk about Eastern Europe travel here.Give me your favorite Eastern European spots/suggestions.
>>2649895I prefer Brno over Bratislava altough it was before covid when I last was in Bratislava and it might be mainly because of Czech craft beer. Can recommend Super Panda Circus in Brno. Also impressive castle overlooking the city and a nice historical old town.
I know it's easy to get from city to city in Europe, but how easy would it be for me to check out some smaller towns in Romania or Poland without a car?
>>2650874It would actually be very hard. Depends on where you want to go. There are many places with terrible transportation options outside of a car. The common trope is one bus that either comes once a day or it doesn't come at all.
>>2650874Largely depends how small we're talking. 10k+ should be fine but it might be bothersome with time wasted switching buses and such. I used to semi-regularly travel from a big city to a small ~15k town 100km away and it was really easy with a direct bus that went 4-5 times a day. Then the company shat itself during Covid and nobody came to replace them. Now I have to go by car or it'd take twice as long with transfers.Countryside and proper villages, you can forget about it. Like the other Anon said, one bus a day (mostly targeting school kids) or nothing at all. Rural people are married to their cars. You're not getting anywhere without hitchhiking or having four wheels of your own.t. Polish
>>2647453For people that have been to these countries, including Russia: how racist are the people? Like, how likely it is to be treated worse if you have a dark skin tone? How do the locals react if a local girl is with a dark skinned person?
I'm planning to relocate from Bongistan to Germany in the next couple of years, but I'm struggling to pick a city. Why? Because the national autism culture of ze Germans is very comfortable and welcoming to me, the quality of food and life in general seems better, and the UK needs to be nuked off the face of the earth.My situation:>already have remote job with German employer who can provide my visa>speak fluent German>64k GBP salary (but I will get paid in yuro should I move)>50k in savings >don't want to live in a region with a visible neo nazi problem >also don't want to get bent over and assfucked for rentThe cities I like the most from previous travel are Cologne, Dresden and Leipzig, Berlin is okay and I have some friends there but I hear the rent market is nightmarish. What's a humble teutaboo to do?Also, do people buy houses in Germany? I hear it's a rent culture, but I really need to invest some of that 50k somewhere and I'm absolutely not buying property on this shithole island.
Just one word of advice, OP:>DON'T DO IT.
>>2651230>visible neo nazi problemYou have other issues there, unless you move to Ossidorf in Sachsen with 200 inhabitants.>and the UK needs to be nuked off the face of the earth.ok, you will find plenty of Germans who will say the same about Germany.
>>2651248What are the other issues? I previously lived in a small town in Thuringia for a few months which was meant to be some kind of brown shirt hotspot but I never saw shit, maybe the Germans I speak to exaggerate the issue. What are the other issues you think I should be more concerned about?
>>2651259>What are the other issues you think I should be more concerned about?The same as in the UK. Drunk retards, or underage faggots acting though and mentally ill poor persons. But way less stabbings. Nazis are just more in the news because of the past, not because it is so prominent. You need to be more concerned of taxes.
Day 1-3 Miami Day 4-7 Disney WorldDay 8 fly to NYC and spend dayDay 9-10 NYCDay 11 fly to Las Vegas in morning, helicopter tour of grand canyonDay 12-15 VegasDay 16 fly to LA spend time exploring cityDay 17-18 LADay 19-21 Anaheim (Disney Land)Day 22 fly home Is this trying to squeeze in too much?
>All these theme park autists missing the more important pointSchedule's insane, you're doing too much in too short of a timeframe
>>2650897I have lived in the US my whole life, there is no way you will be able to cram all that in 3 weeks, I would just pick New York, DC & Boston, stay on the east coast and take the train between them or drive, you will get plenty of culture, museums, food and anything else. Crisscrossing the whole US in 3 weeks would be a nightmare and also not really worth it.
I say if you want to visit both Disney locations let’s do it!
>>2650897Skip miami, disney world, and disney land, and cut down your time in Vegas. Then I’d say you’re looking fairly solid.
>>2650897Most souless itinerary I've ever seen. You are an honorary American.
I am considering moving to the UK, but whenever I hear anything about the UK from UK citizens in Canada is that Canada is so much better, Canada is great, the UK is horrible etc. Most British say they are much happier in Canada, the standard of living is much better, higher quality of life, the people are nicer etc. Online, the UK seems to be a standard for everything a bad country is. Instead of "at least we're not Mississippi" the expression is "at least we're not the UK". Is the UK really that bad of a country?
The UK is an absolute festering shithole, but if you're determined to come here, stay the fuck away from London and Birmingham. Manchester and Newcastle are pretty friendly and soulful, there's lots of good food, music and things to do, plus both have a very walkable city centre. Newcastle is a quick train to Scotland and Manchester is a quick train to Wales if you want to get /out/.
>>2647916If you stay in Canada try Victoria or Halifax or just get a working holiday visa to NZ or Australia or I guess UK too.
>>2647876This country is a fucking dump, Scotland and London are as communist as Canada and the rest of the country is not far behind. Even the hordes of third worlders here are waking up to how doomed this nation is.
>>2647876The UK is unironically a failing state. Life for most of the population is dire. Cities are crumbling. Culture is dead. More and more immigrants are being sandwiched in. All while the weather is shit, pakis continue to make life worse for everyone around them, people get poorer and everyone is a miserable cunt with a chip on their shoulder. I was pissed off about my life in the UK and left. Never been happier. Now I don’t even like going back for the weekend.
>>2650615>>2650955>>2651266Whilst I agree with all these points, unless your career prospects are dogshit in the UK and you're on £40k or less, moving to do TEFL which has no career trajectory and basically delaying the inevitable until you have to go back and face reality isn't really the play.I'm just warning as my close friend did that from 23-35 years old, just getting pissed and living in HK / Japan / Korea. Covid happened and he lost his job / gf and moved back to the same parents council house with barely £5k in savings basically starting from square one again.UK is a shithole though, thankfully my city hasn't been infested yet with the third world.
Nobody ever talks about these countries. Are they shit, hidden gems, or just kind of unremarkable? A cursory glance makes me think they're good for landscape tourism and perhaps history but have shit public transport and sketchy car hire. Otherwise, unspoiled by mass tourism.What are your experiences with this forgotten corner of the Balkans, anons?
>>2650368>more white envy seetheKeep going. Call me a whitoid. I'm edging rn. Hnngh.
>>2650359That's great for you anon. They go up to people at cafes every day here.
>>2650302He means they cucked out and joined the EU and eurozone.
>>2650720Ah thanks for clearing that up. Super relevant to my life, can enjoy traveling to a country because they made a political move
>>2650309Ibiza is expensive now, Amsterdam hates us nowbroke uni students want to go to cheaper places - hence, Croatia Albania Xanthi Poland
Going to travel there in July with my parents and brother for my pa's 60th birthday. Any recommendations?
>>2650287>she had vomited in a bin on the vienna metro 2 days beforeShe sounds like a catch
>>2650212Vienna is alright but the alps are the best part of Austria. Your dad is in good enough shape to hike? Go to Salzkammergut or Tirol and go check out some alms and eat traditional alpine food and drink beer in truly picturesque landscapes.If he isn't very mobile, even just driving through the alps is amazing. Try the Großglockner Hochalpenstraße
>>2650525>>2650233The fact he didn't mention it was packed with Chinese people would in fact mean he himself is Chinese. Hence his gf having a weak stomach and car sick. Also being bored surrounded mountains? yeah, that's a you problem.
Is Austria expensive?I have a feeling it is and won't bother if so.
>>2650654she is Chinese but I am notalso it's mainly Koreans
Is this a safe country to travel to? How are tourists treated by the American people? What states do you recommend avoiding if any?
>>2644238It's as safe as any Euro city, Manhattan and times square are pretty much a theme park for tourists at this pointhttps://nyc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=8153f961507040de8dbf9a53145f18c490% of my time in NYC has been in midtown and I've never seen any crime
>>2641765to be fair most of those doomsaying posts are written by dudes that have never left their tri-county area
>>2651090Sure there are rural farm towns without a single crotch-grabbing pavement ape. However, most population centers are overrun with shiftless, gum sucking rape-apes on the prowl for victims to rob and violate
>>2651199I don't really care how you feel about black people, but for the love of Jesus, please stop being so bitchmade. It's for your own sake.
>>2651201Wait, did you just assume a specific race? How racist!
What are the most beautiful places in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales?
>>2651173Isle of Skye looks pretty cool nature wise
>>2651173Ireland: not sure never beenScotland: pretty much the whole north and west of the country, particularly:>Outer hebrides>Skye>St Kilda>Orkney>Shetland>West Highlands>Loch LomondWales:>Snowdonia>Pembrokeshire coastComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Anyone ever been to Similan islands? Thinking of flying to Phuket for a weekend and going there, but not sure about the crowds and how long it might take. Water looks amazing though.
>>2651271You're only supposed to take one redpill at a time, anon, not boof the whole bottle. You've memed yourself terminally retarded.
>>2651276>>2651279>should I inject the most toxic poison ever mass distributed to humans directly into my veins?Sure, go take a look at covid long haulers or r/autism and see what this shit gets you
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>>2651294Multiple people in my family had their lives permanently ruined by the mercury laden flu vaccines of the 2000s, developing autism.I've seen over a dozen people drop dead after the covid vaccine. Do what you like anon
>>2651299>my family>autismYou guys must have a gene for it.
>six nights in Tokyo >six nights in Kyoto My first time ever visiting Japan. Is this a good itinerary? I don’t want to rush myself during my trip and enjoy both cities at a comfortable pace.
>>2632673That looks comfy af
>>2631471>hes going all the way to japan>to only spend twelve daysreally?
>>2649480Not him, but I went there for an extended weekend once. But yeah, I aim about a month at a time. You got to remember, their are alot of 20 and 30 somethings on this site aren't early retired like us in our 40s and 50s and it's hard for them to get off more than a week or two because they decided to work for other people instead of helping themselves. I spent alot of time busting my ass in my 20s and 30s giving up vacations, girls, family etc so I could retire at 40. Not everyone is as fortunate as us to pack up our things and head out for months at a time on a whim.
kyoto is a fucking shithole. everyone is a rude asshole that even other japanese hate. every single place is overrun with fucking touriststhere is nothing to fucking do. game centers, pachinko, bars, shopping, everything is slightly fucked because of the number of foreign (and domestic) tourists. essentially, you are getting a compromised experience for everything when you come here, even for just a few daysi lived in another part of japan for 2 years and had the same umbrella for the entire time. i moved to kyoto six months ago and have had my umbrella stolen SEVEN TIMESFUCK KYOTOstay in osaka and have actual fun there. use it as a jumping off point for kobe, nara, yeah a day in kyoto i guess, etc.
>>2644065>If you're into nightlife the clubs are pretty shitHave you been clubbing in Japan? The clubs in Korea are 1000% more fun, Japs just stand around awkwardly. Yeah Korea is pretty shit for nature and architecture, but the nightlife is one of the most fun I've experienced. The people are really friendly and it's very easy to socialise with them, they also love drinking which makes nights out fun. I also loved the food.In general Korea feels more like a party place for me, then you go to Japan to enjoy the temples and nature and whatnot.I think I'd unironically prefer to live in Korea than in Japan if only they toned down on the retarded political / culture war brainrot that they imported from our semitic friends in the US
