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Isle of palms (what were we thinking??)
India
The coliseum 
The safari (way too much money and a terrible experience ([/quote]

Tell us more about the safari… did you go mid-range (which is still thousands and thousands vs $20K+, so it’s all relative). What country?[/quote]

I’m not the pp.  I loved the safari I went on in Kenya and Tanzania, and it was very budget-friendly. The lodges were fine.  Our guide was excellent.  The people in our group of 8 were wonderful. Then I met up with a friend at a very nice lodge in Kenya (from which most people were headed out on an expensive safari) for 2 nights and I was miserable.  Other guests were crazy rude—got in fights with each other.  There was a group of Chinese tourists, and Australian and German tourists used racial epithets.  Every person working there was constantly trying to upsell us on every single thing.  And for the money this place cost, nothing was really that nice.  It was miserable.  I’d hired one of the drivers from my first, cheap safari to pick me up from this place and take me to the airport and I’ve never been so happy to see anyone.  So, it’s not all about money you spend.

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Weird. Sounds janky. Never heard of upselling at a reputable luxury lodge and I’ve been to multiple Botswana, Rwanda, and South Africa luxury lodges (Londolozi, Wilderness, Great Plains, etc).  [/quote]

It’s absolutely the norm, but it’s subtly done usually and if you aren’t money conscious you might not even notice it’s happening.  Sometimes it’s via texts or emails you receive right before your stay notifying you of experiences or things that, wow luckily, have become available.  At restaurants, it might be a special tasting you hadn’t asked about.  Transportation options you hadn’t known about.  Spa treatments that are similar to but better than the one you requested.  But it’s not like the ladies in your salon upselling you—it’s gentle. Luxury lodgings of all types around the world are upselling every minute.
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