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Subject: Re: Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:19:55 +0000 (UTC)

On Apr 14, 8:52=A0am, SMS wrote:
> youarethecheekyboys wrote:
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm
>
> > snip
>
> > He says that after having . with a waitress on a table after hours,
> > he reviewed the restaurant with the words "the table service is
> > friendly".
>
> > snip
>
> It wasn't much of a rebuttal at that web site.
>
> I remember being in China once and the LP guide book was hopelessly out
> of date despite being an up-to-date edition in terms of publication
> date. I checked subsequent editions which had the same errors. I.e., one
> hotel I was looking for had not only changed names several years
> earlier, but even the street that it was on had changed names. Try
> telling a taxi driver to take you to a non-existent hotel on a
> non-existent street.

A hotel with a different name on a different street? I am guessing
you were looking for the wrong hotel.