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Southold,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, January 27, 2012
You had to pay $3.19 to leave Cambodia? The horror! Perhaps I am just a jaded tourist but my reaction would have been "A bargain still at twice the price!". Certainly any guidebook you read must have warned you that these countries might be nice places to visit, but the countryside is in poverty and corruption is rife. I know routine graft is annoying, but perhaps you can take some consolation in the fact that at least some of that money will trickle down to the local economy, making things better for every day Cambodians.
I can see the value of publishing something like this to a travel website like Lonely Planet etc... But I am wondering what exactly you think you are going to accomplish by publishing this to rip off report? Do you think the Cambodian government will intervene? An earnest lawyer will take up your case? A groundswell of popular opinion will rise to force change? A SINGLE tourist will decide to cancel his trip to Cambodia based on the extra 12 bucks to get in and 3 bucks to get out?
Good luck gathering popular outrage here or abroad. Hope you enjoyed the trip.