20/3/2025
Kien Duc to Thu Dau Mot.
ATD 0710
ATA 1150
Ride time 4.75 hours
Today is the second last day of riding my tour.
It was a boring ride on highways most of the time. Didn't stop much.
Today's hotel is much better! Comfortable and with AC! yeeha.......
It's not so much the AC but what I don't like is being charged for something I did not get. It's the principle!
After I woke up around 5ish in the morning I checked my email and there was no email from booking.com on my complaint. I send them another email again and I got a reply within a few minutes. Said that as the reservation was facilitated by a "partner company" and not booking.com directly they can't do anything. WTF!
Reservation was made on booking.com's app and now they wash their hands.
I am going to give a stinking review for the property I stayed in so that others are aware of this cheating tactic.
Learned something new today, don't make a reservation on booking.com which says "partner offer" facilitated by booking.com partner company.
My experience with all these OTA's not all positive. Agoda in Japan charged high foreign currency exchange rates.
Booking "partner offer" is BS and you have no recourse if there are problems. If you see "partner offer" stay clear!
Tomorrow will be a short ride to Saigon of less than 2 hours. I want to return the bike by lunch time.
Going to stay at my mate's apartment for a night (21/3) and then leave for SGN airport on morning of 22/3.
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