George is a LIAR!

I took a quick vacation last week. Lesson learned here is to not book a tour guide for HK and Shenzhen. The tour that we had was horrible. They take you around places so you can buy from the 'factories'. In reality, they are just trying to take your money.

In Shenzen, our guide by the name of George Chew asked for 280 RMB for Window of The World but the original charging was 160 RMB. Good thing that my wife said, "We checked online and it says we only need to pay for 160 RMB". He was surprised. Then he said, "that's probably for the locals". What we can do is that I will give you tickets for locals for 160 RMB. When we checked in the ticket booth visitors (local or foreign) is asked to pay only 160 RMB. George lied to us.

He also kept our VISA so we could not leave because we want to leave early and not join the tour. When we told him that we don't won't give him a tip of 150 HKD he threatened us saying, "If we can't settle this you will never return to Hong Kong!"

The tour company that we used called SL TRAVEL Company LTD changed our itinerary without informing us. Their service really sucks.

If you are reading this post and you are planning to book for a city tour, it would be best to use Google and you should be able to find your way.