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• Becareful when you do the money exchange in Bali

  I got rip off. Be careful, when you do money exchange in small counter (in official office) along the road in tourist area at Bali. They put the sign board in front of the shop with very good rate to lure you to get inside and then have a tricky when counting the money, its look like correct as what you could get but when you count by yourself its not correct. So they keep counting for you again and again make you get confuse. At the end you boring and tired you will except that money and walk out from the shop with short fall of the money. They will not give you any receipt for any evidence. I have this bad experience at Legain beach, Kuta, Bali , I stay at Club Bali suites ,Hotel Jayakarta ,Bali, Indonesia, on March 1-8, 2013. After back to the hotel and count the money again i found that its not correct, then i went to ask someone at the front counter of the hotel tell them the story and ask them to help and go together with me to get the money back because its just 50 metres away in front of the hotel. When we arrived there its look like they know what happen and doing that on purpose, then we told them that will call the police so he just said that he get confuse and return the money back to me in US$, I also took his photos and said that I will come back with a police if that US$ are not real. Then i went back to the hotel with bad feeling with this bad people. I have talk with other tourist in the same hotel, she said that she also get this trick also, so bad then. Another advise is don't let them hold your money in there hand , they are professional in the trick of counting and hiding the money and never give you back in the same amount. I just found out that i lost some of US$ in the next day, I try to re-think again on that situation when he pull all US$ money on my hand to count. Good luck for the new comer to Bali. Kaew

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  By kaew (dabbler)
  Written on 5th March, 2013 after a visit to Legian in March, 2013

  
  

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