Tourist traps are known as the places or shops where tourists are offered high-priced services and goods. These traps are found in almost all well-known tourists destinations of the world, but at some tourist destinations, you will find such traps at almost every step. Different Caribbean destinations are quite well known for their traps where expensive souvenirs and other such stuff are offered to the tourists.
Antigua is renowned for having white sandy seashores, presence of a large number of natural beauties, affluent society, historical locations, and extraordinary services for tourists. It has quite a few numbers of beaches, and all of them contain something for each person. One additional feature of Antigua is a huge range of shopping services that are accessible for the visitors.
You will get almost everything in Antigua that you would expect to get from a most modern shopping mall of the world. Nevertheless, you will find traps at more or less every step too where the vendors will be all the time trying to sell some cheap items to unaware tourists at higher prices.
It is highly advisable to search on internet, if you are making a plan to spend your upcoming holiday at Antigua, as the place is full of so many traps for the tourists at every step. One can find a huge variety of holiday reviews of almost every location on internet. These reviews give you guidance how you can avoid paying large amount of money for some cheap stuff.
A number of items appear to be highly inspiring and pricy to people who do not know about the local prices of these items. Since such items are sold at lower prices to the home customers, and entirely changed rates are presented to the tourists, it is because all the salespersons understand well that the tourists do not know about the actual prices of these goods. For that reason, they try their best to cash the lack of knowledge of the holidaymakers. You can stay away from these traps by getting utmost information about the items that you wish to buy from Antigua.
Here at locals markets in Antigua, you will find many different high quality textile goods, artwork, and Jades. There are many local handicrafts as well, but they are often available with considerably higher price tags. In fact, these goods are not as expensive as the local shopkeepers who are always in a quest to get higher prices from the tourists describe them.
Embroidered purses, spun cloth, and pottery are some other well-known goods of Antigua, but you need to make a good bargain if you want to get these goods at a reasonable price. You must try to pay nearly 30 to 50% lower than the asking price of some local good, and this is, indeed, a nice way to avoid the traps of these local vendors.
If someone plans to buy some arts, and crafts items from Antigua, they must not forget that Antigua is amongst the priciest destinations in the Caribbean to buy such goods. - 31515
Antigua is renowned for having white sandy seashores, presence of a large number of natural beauties, affluent society, historical locations, and extraordinary services for tourists. It has quite a few numbers of beaches, and all of them contain something for each person. One additional feature of Antigua is a huge range of shopping services that are accessible for the visitors.
You will get almost everything in Antigua that you would expect to get from a most modern shopping mall of the world. Nevertheless, you will find traps at more or less every step too where the vendors will be all the time trying to sell some cheap items to unaware tourists at higher prices.
It is highly advisable to search on internet, if you are making a plan to spend your upcoming holiday at Antigua, as the place is full of so many traps for the tourists at every step. One can find a huge variety of holiday reviews of almost every location on internet. These reviews give you guidance how you can avoid paying large amount of money for some cheap stuff.
A number of items appear to be highly inspiring and pricy to people who do not know about the local prices of these items. Since such items are sold at lower prices to the home customers, and entirely changed rates are presented to the tourists, it is because all the salespersons understand well that the tourists do not know about the actual prices of these goods. For that reason, they try their best to cash the lack of knowledge of the holidaymakers. You can stay away from these traps by getting utmost information about the items that you wish to buy from Antigua.
Here at locals markets in Antigua, you will find many different high quality textile goods, artwork, and Jades. There are many local handicrafts as well, but they are often available with considerably higher price tags. In fact, these goods are not as expensive as the local shopkeepers who are always in a quest to get higher prices from the tourists describe them.
Embroidered purses, spun cloth, and pottery are some other well-known goods of Antigua, but you need to make a good bargain if you want to get these goods at a reasonable price. You must try to pay nearly 30 to 50% lower than the asking price of some local good, and this is, indeed, a nice way to avoid the traps of these local vendors.
If someone plans to buy some arts, and crafts items from Antigua, they must not forget that Antigua is amongst the priciest destinations in the Caribbean to buy such goods. - 31515
About the Author:
Edward Watkinson is a travel guide. For Antigua Holidays and other Caribbean holidays visit this Caribbean holiday website at http://www.caribbeanconnection.com.
