Sydney Tourist Trap Tips by seagoingJLW

We bought tickets for the tour... Opera House Review

We bought tickets for the tour of the Opera House. They were not cheap. Since the brochure state that there are about 200 steps on this tour, we asked about that at the box office. We were told that the steps came in groups of about 5 or 10 with us being seated and lectured to in between.<BR>
We went with the group, led by Barbara, our guide. She started out as if she were shot from a cannon. We called out to her to slow down, but she wouldn't. By the time we got to seats in the theater, she had already begun her lecture.<BR>
We again told her that she was going too fast for us. We couldn't keep up. We left with the first of the group and went to the next theater, barely making it before she began to talk.<BR>
Again we asked her to please slow down to no avail.<BR>
When we left this theater and crossed a room to a door, she got way ahead of us. We went outside and couldn't see her. We wlked a ways and turned a corner, confronting a flight of what must have been at least 50 steps. We say some stragglers from our groups at the very top. We could not even attempt the climb. Besides, we were totally lost.<BR>
We wandered around and finally found a friendly couple who, although they did not know where the tour box office was, showed us how to get back to Circular Quay.<BR>
By this time we were totally exhausted, confused, and disgusted.<BR>
We decided we just wouldn't pay the bill for the tour when it came, but would instead explain what happened to the credit card company. Barbara knew she lost us, without any adoubt.<BR>
We wrote the tour off and went on a perfectly delightful Harbour Cruise instead.