Tourists Shopping Traps During Antigua Holidays
October 18, 2009 by Edward Watkinson
Filed under Destinations
The places or shops that present costly services and commodities to their tourists are called Tourists traps. Most of the times, such traps can be seen at every renowned tourist place of the world. Nevertheless, in a few of such destinations, you will find such traps at almost every inch distance. A large number of destinations in Caribbean are fairly well known for such traps where costly souvenirs and other such type of stuffs are sold to the visitors.
Antigua is quite famous for its sandy white seashores, a number of innate beauties, prosperous civilisation, chronological places, and remarkable amenities for tourists. There are quite a few beaches, and each one of those is having something for everybody. One more aspect of Antigua is a large number of shopping services that are available for the tourists.
In Antigua, one will get more or less everything that can be expected from a most modern shopping centre of the world, however you will get traps at almost every move too where the salesmen are at all times in a chase to retail some insignificant items to innocent tourists at elevated prices.
If you are planning your holidays to Antigua or any other such place where these traps are in abundance, it is better to make some search online. Try to find some online reviews of the place that you are going to visit, as from the reviews you can get plenty of information about such traps, and can avoid paying high amounts for cheap local goods.
There are several things, which look very impressive and pricy to those who are not aware of the local prices of these goods, as these goods are sold at lower rates to the local customers. On the contrary, completely different rates are offered to the tourists, as shopkeepers know well that these tourists are not aware of the actual prices of their goods. Therefore, they try to cash the ignorance of the tourists. You can avoid their traps by getting maximum information about the goods that you want to purchase from Antigua.
At local markets of Antigua, tourists can discover a lot of different high quality textile products, Jades, and artwork. You can find a huge variety of local handicrafts too, but they are mostly offered at considerably higher prices. In reality, such items are not as highly priced as the local shopkeepers who are at all times in a mission to take higher prices from the tourists explain about 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.
Edward Watkinson is a travel guide. For Antigua Holidays and other Caribbean holidays visit this Caribbean holiday website at http://www.caribbeanconnection.com.