Golden Lotus Restaurant
restaurant — 53 Corner Street
Trap score: 57/100 (orange)
Golden Lotus Restaurant is a Restaurant popular with visitors; check recent reports before you go.
Reports (12)
- unsafe (severity 5/5): They doubled the price once the bill arrived — a classic tourist overcharge.
- taxi_meter (severity 4/5): Taxi took a 40-minute detour on a 10-minute trip to run up the fare.
- taxi_meter (severity 2/5): The listing address didn't even exist — pure fake booking, no refund offered.
- fake_reviews (severity 3/5): Friendly at first, then locked the door and pressured us to buy a 'gift'.
- overcharge (severity 3/5): Advertised as authentic; sold mass-produced fakes at luxury prices.
- taxi_meter (severity 2/5): Currency-exchange sleight of hand — got short-changed and they denied it.
- bait_switch (severity 3/5): Persistent harassment from staff trying to drag us inside for a 'special deal'.
- taxi_meter (severity 4/5): They doubled the price once the bill arrived — a classic tourist overcharge.
- overcharge (severity 2/5): The ATM ate my card and the 'help desk' asked for my PIN. Obvious scam.
- unsafe (severity 1/5): My wallet went missing right after a staged distraction near the entrance.
- taxi_meter (severity 5/5): Pickpocketed in the crush by the ticket counter — be extremely careful here.
- other (severity 1/5): Aggressive commission scheme — the guide steered us only to shops paying kickbacks.