| Booking air tickets through Ctrip (whose receptionists are more well-trained and more polite, but may not be as experienced as that of Elong) or Elong (staff is more experienced and so the booking process might be more efficient and smoother) is not that bad after all, the prices they offer are generally lower than our local travel agent in Beijing. But beware that the air ticket prices on the Chinese and English Elong sites are different!
As to the overpriced brands, Häagen-Dazs is definitely the one, Starbucks is not, their price is more or less the same as in Hong Kong and Seoul. IMHO, IKEA is not over-priced, and I would say some of their goods are relatively cheap... |
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