City tour in Cartagena from cruise ship - Profit of 750%, is it fair?
Tired of constantly losing your time with group city tours?
Frustrated that you are brought to some shops to make you buying
things you don't want ?
Disappointed at not being able to take magnificent images for
your travel souvenirs?
Exasperated to be abused with high prices for the city tour in
Cartagena?
I am a tourist, a stranger, and I lived more than 5 years in
Cartagena de Indias in order to realize the unfair situation and
the total indifference you can experience during your city tours
from your cruise ship.
Would you like to discover the city of Cartagena differently, in
a fair and respectable way, at your own pace and with reasonable
rates?
You are scammed with profits of over 750%
I checked all the cruise operators that come to Cartagena
to see what contained their city tours as well as the
fares. Companies like Pullman, Princes, Norwegian, MSC,
Carnival, Oceania, Celebrity, Holland America, Disney, Tui,
Thompson, Viking, Alda, Costa, etc.
On average, the cost is $ 65 us, regardless of the number
on a bus that can hold up to 60 people. Let us make a
little calculation: $ 65 x 60 = $ 3900 us
- The cost of using a bus for 5 hours is 300 $ us
including the poor driver and the guide.
- The cost for the Popa ($ 2) and San Felipe Castle
entrance ($ 10) is $ 12 x 60 people, but in fact 80% (50)
of the people do not walk to the top of the castle without
a refund, so a cost of $ 220 us.
Thus, the total costs are $ 520. Therefore, we are talking
about a profit of 750% ... which is not abusive, but a big
scam on the back of visitors or tourists.
In fact, it is the tour operators in Cartagena who put a
lot of money in their pockets by not paying the workers to
their fair value and having high rates. You know, those
workers who make your tour nice and beautiful! Guides and
drivers.
To compensate for their poor income, they take you to
souvenir shops and emeralds jeweleries where they make
commissions, no matter if you buy something. And this has
a direct consequence on the quality of your city tour in
Cartagena. Eventually, tourists blame the guides instead
of seeing all the unhealthy dynamics under that.
You are then scared to better control yourself!
Obviously, according to tour operators and cruise ship
companies, it is not advisable and even dangerous to take
private tours of entrepreneurs in Cartagena, because they
do not have their "great reputation" nor their "great
professionalism"!
But what kind of reputation and experience are we talking
about here? Misleading appearances or professional
scammers?
In truth, they frighten you so that you can not choose
anything but their tours.
They can invent an dpay for many advertising because they
have the budget to do so. They also demand that certain
rules be imposed in order to satisfy only their vested
interests, to keep their monopoly.
If you want to contribute to more poverty in Cartagena or
elsewhere, be free to abuse yourself and make you believe
that only tour operators and cruise ships are honest,
reliable and fair ...
Nothing is further from the truth!
Why not choose different city tours from your cruise ship?
Cartagena is a beautiful city to visit, but you must
choose people aware of your interests in order to see the
city from other points of view.
I am the designer of this very popular website on the
Internet and with many car owners and tour guides, I am in
direct contact with them in order to help you make
pleasant, safe and unforgettable city tours.
Moreover, you can easily book your tours in advance and
use Paypal for optimum protection in case of last minute
cancellation.
I would like you to realize that we can change this unfair
situation.
Claude Lasanté