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My worst travel day ever was in Lisbon last October
I landed and found out my cheap hostel booking was a scam, the address didn't exist. I had to walk around for three hours with my backpack in the rain looking for a new place. Ended up paying 90 euros for a last minute room, which blew my whole food budget for two days. The worst part was I had checked the reviews, but they were all fake. Has anyone else been totally scammed by a hostel booking site? How do you check if a place is real?
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adamellis3d ago
Man that sounds awful, I feel for you. I mean, @jake191 is right, that's a brutal way to start a trip. For checking places, I always cross reference the address on Google Maps street view to see the building, and I only book on sites where the reviews are verified from an actual stay. Those review badges help a lot. Maybe it's just me, but I've gotten paranoid and won't book a place that only has text reviews with no profile pictures on the people posting them.
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