Golden Bazaar Restaurant
restaurant — 339 Elephant Street
Trap score: 42/100 (yellow)
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Reports (12)
- fake_reviews (severity 3/5): What was advertised online looked nothing like the room we actually got.
- taxi_meter (severity 3/5): Bracelet forced onto my wrist, then demanded payment for the 'free' gift.
- theft (severity 2/5): Room photos were of a different building entirely; total bait and switch.
- other (severity 1/5): Room photos were of a different building entirely; total bait and switch.
- taxi_meter (severity 3/5): Currency-exchange sleight of hand — got short-changed and they denied it.
- unsafe (severity 1/5): My wallet went missing right after a staged distraction near the entrance.
- other (severity 1/5): The ATM ate my card and the 'help desk' asked for my PIN. Obvious scam.
- unsafe (severity 2/5): My wallet went missing right after a staged distraction near the entrance.
- other (severity 4/5): Menu had no prices; the final total was absurd and they got hostile when questioned.
- fake_reviews (severity 4/5): Aggressive commission scheme — the guide steered us only to shops paying kickbacks.
- overcharge (severity 2/5): Taxi took a 40-minute detour on a 10-minute trip to run up the fare.
- taxi_meter (severity 1/5): The driver refused to use the meter and demanded a flat fare triple the normal rate.