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Subject: Re: Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim Posted on: 14 Apr 2008 20:09:49 GMT

PeterL wrote:
> On Apr 14, 8:52 am, 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.

Nope, it still existed, and I ended up staying there. It had reverted to
its pre-Cultural Revolution name, as had the street it was located on.