Hustling is endless. From restaurants to taxi drivers, almost everyone wants some lira from you and the moment you spoke English, you’re liable to tourist tax. You’ll also get carpet sellers, menu without prices, typical scammy things that you’d experience in India (and maybe morroco and egypt too - but I have not been). Supermarkets became my sanctuary as they are the places which consistently have clear price tags and the prices are the same for everyone.Admission tickets to main sights like Hagia Sophia, Topkapi, and many museums have two-tier pricing (which is fine) but the scale is rather extreme. And for the money you paid for, you are getting the barebone experience - no free brochure, some doesnt have English translations, some doesnt allow taking photos. I just have the feeling of being ripped off.Smoking is absolutely everywhere. It makes up the Turkish air basically. No smoking sign is decorative except in public transportation settings.
did you not see the three other fucking threads on this city in the catalog?
>>2837781>typical scammy things that you’d experience in India (and maybe morroco and egypt too - but I have not been)What about vietnam? Or tunisia?
>>2837785link them to verify your comment, I always link japan threads everytime the pathetic weebs post a new one so I can rub their face in their own shit
>>2837781>typical scammy things that you’d experience in India (and maybe morroco and egypt too - but I have not been)I've been to Turkey like five times by now and I have never experienced any of this. There's some professional scammers and touts, especially in Istanbul, but there's zero greedy opportunism from the common man on the street. In fact, I've found Turks to be consistently some of the nicest and most helpful people out there.t. been to India, Egypt, Morocco, Vietnam and whatever other vile shithole with a reputation for scams you can come up with
>>2837781The part of Istanbul I went had no supermarkets, but it posted stickered-over prices for most sale items, and honored whatever was on the sticker. Nobody really tried to hustle me, but neighbors alerted the sleeping owner of my rattletrap four-floor guesthouse and he let me in and gave me a sweltering room with a short-circuit in the A/C wiring. I told him about it, and he then gave me a room with an utterly ruined mattress. No joke. I've seen cleaner, fresher mattresses abandoned in the woods by homeless people in America. This one had a huge hole in the middle to hold cuddling couples together. He apologized for the condition of the bed. The sheets and blankets seemed clean. Despite it being July, the second story room was only 23 C inside, while still having a window view of the street below. I ate at one of those roadside hawker restaurants with cheap food and stickered-over prices on a big menu poster. It was better than I expected. Nearby was the famous ice cream man who does the cone drop trick when he hands you your ice cream cone - it is so sticky that nothing ever falls out of the cone BTW. I didn't buy any baclava, it was more expensive than I expected.
>>2837862I went for a walk along the Bosphorus and saw a huge variety of summer visitors. Nobody appeared to be harassing any of them. If you are not an alcoholdrinker, perhaps you are avoiding the ripoffs of the bar streets? It never occurred to me to drink alcohol in Istanbul, much less drink at a fookin Irish themed pub or some other gimmicky fool trap.
>>2837862you are not white
>>2837979Istanbul is Med adjacent. You go to nice places, you are going to get upcharged. You go to street places, they short you on ingredients if they don't like you. The price usually remains the same.
>>2837862because youre brown
>go to tourist trap places in istanbul>complain about tourist trapsgo to bebek, caddebostan or nişantaşı or even any other places apart from fatih and people wouldn't care about you. or probably despise you because you are a clueless tourist.
