World's 10 rudest countries for travelers

[gavinmac]

Problem with Detroit is u need to get to the west coast first for the good deals

The other problem with Detroit is that Delta and its partners don't fly to Phnom Penh and don't even serve Bangkok well.

[SunSan]

Puh, that is expensive.

[Phuket2006]

yea kayak had ONLY mutiple airlines
from Detroit to Chicago on United and then they used Asiana ( which i booked on) to fly to PP $2,200!!!

Gav: not true;
Delta does the whole route Det-Seoul-pp but $7,765
or det-LA-seoul-pp for $1,909 but 37 hours!! ( Delta and Korean)
or delta to sf an than Singapore airlines to sing-PP $2,042 32 hours
using all delta cheapest is $2,972

[Nirvana]

How disheartening. Even if I could drive to California and stay with my step-mom's brother, it'd take days and cost so much in gas that I'd have to sell crack for the money (which is the other problem with Detroit *rimshot*). So yes, remember that not all Americans live on the west coast!

Anyway, rude people. Doesn't surprise me Americans rate other Americans as rude travellers. I am surprised that we ranked in top 10 for rudest citizens for a travel destination; I've always heard that we were annoyingly helpful in general.

[gavinmac]

I don't know if your credit is any good, but it's possible to sign up for credit cards and collect bonus airline miles and then use those to travel for (almost) free.

For example, Chase offers a United Airlines card that gives you 40,000 miles with first purchase. The Chase Sapphire Preferred card gives 40,000 or 50,000 Ultimate Rewards points which you can then transfer into United Miles.

I think you need about 60,000 - 70,000 United miles for a roundtrip economy ticket from anywhere in the U.S. to anywhere in Southeast Asia.

I've personally used the credit card sign up gambit for lots of international trips in business class.

[Goodoldkenny]

>>> For example, Chase offers a United Airlines card that gives you 40,000 miles with first purchase. The Chase Sapphire Preferred card gives 40,000 or 50,000 Ultimate Rewards points which you can then transfer into United Miles.

>>> I think you need about 60,000 - 70,000 United miles for a roundtrip economy ticket from anywhere in the U.S. to anywhere in Southeast Asia.

I don't get it.
Is a Chase mile different to a regular mile?
It's only about 25,000 all the way round to where you start.

KennyF

[Phuket2006]

I love those free upgrades!!!!

[LaudJohn]

that's a good one, "and in many places it is just like Southern California anyhow"
except southern ca very seldom has gun shoot outs on the streets or bodies dug up in mass graves.
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except that Mexico very seldom has postal workers massacering their co workers or disgrubntled students gunning down their classmates .. and as for mass graves, that is just because serial killers spread them around; so on balance even your exception ends up being pretty much same same.

I do agree to your commnet that few venture further than a 4 hour flight from the mainland USA.

My co-worker, my boss, and myself all looked into how much a trip to Cambodia would cost (from Detroit). More than $2,000 for a ticket, and that was a bargain, for just the flight to Cambodia. Yeah, so bite me, geographically connected Europeans!

Do it with sector airfares.

Get a redeye Detroit to LAX, fly someone cheap LAX to BKK and then AirAsia BKK to PNH.

I generally find that seeking airfares to Phnom Penh is very expensive whereas to Bangkok, or Kula Lumpur is pretty reasonable and a cheap Air Asia flight gets you to your intended destination far cheaper than any flight from Origin to Phnom Penh.

Think laterally.

[Phuket2006]

Asiana flights out of sfo are the same to Bangkok or Phnom Penh
as are Korean airlines
One nice thing is flights out of the states to Asia are cheaper than Asia to the states

what i do is look at Kayak and than Priceline for the best deals and than go direct to the airlines as well

[Dengchao]

The only 'country' (let's say 90% of the locals you meet) that I walked out of tempestuously and telling them to get fu#$%d over my shoulder was Italy. I put up with the wretched little wogs long enough to see the main sites, then gladly left never to return.

Been to France five times. Never encountered any rudness at all.

PNG is fairly egalitarian it must be said: when they get your car to stop they almost always rape both the wife and the husband!

More than likely you'll both be cooked as one feast as well

[Frans]

How the hell did Belgium miss the list???

Something wrong with my country Sir?

You can answer in one of the 3 officials languages from my little but beautiful country, With friendly people drinking the best beers&wines in the world, eating the most famous dishes.
Helping British tourist in there own language because the British lac of education and sad drinking behaviour what the are calling " Sh*t, F*uck and more beauty's".
And we have Manneke Pis the most well-known person in the world&universe.

But of-course people never remind the best things in there live, Because the only remind the bad

PS: If you write understandable English ... We understand this broken Gaulish as-well

[vladimir]

PS: If you write understandable English ... We understand this broken Gaulish as-well

hahahahah, good point, but expect the Crecy replay soon in your neighbourhood from some posters.

You forgot Tintin by Remi Georges. Way better known than Manneke Pis. More than 84 different languages worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin

[Old_major]

Other popular items taken included pillows, remote controls, Bibles and sheets. So we're not just rude when we travel, we're thieves.

Why on Earth would someone steal a Bible? Must be an American thing ….

[matty]

Yep, I remember during high school debate trips that required us to stay overnight, my friends and I used to steal the bibles from hotels we were staying in, then throw them out or light them on fire or things like that. The idea was to undo the work of the Gideons. In retrospect, it was pretty immature behavior. I've known other people to just collect them and build "art" out of them. All kinds of uses, but sure, plenty of Americans steal bibles. Does that even count as theft? It isn't the hotel leaving the bible there, so it is more like lost and found.

[Lucky Lucan]

I think those bibles are supposed to be taken from hotels. I was the only person in my class in school who didn't want one when the Gideons visited. Quite a few people took one just to make roll-up cigarettes with. I was so fucking bored when I inadvertently ended up in hospital one time that I actually read part of one as there was nothing else there to read.