Mdlovespunting
02-01-2015, 02:40 PM
I really should have posted this a while ago, but a mate has just returned from Shanghai with a similar experience.
I was staying at the Hyatt on the Bund, in October 2014, just about anywhere you go you get accosted by people wanting to take you for a massage etc, I had resisted up till this point, but I was leaving the Hote one morning and a well spoken fellow, asked if I was interested in a massage, just around the corner. I thought, why not, you have to sample the local delights, so I followed him to a place, literally in the next street, directly behind the Hotel.
Was ushered in and met by an old Mama San, very chatty, led me into a room to choose from about 5 very good looking girls.
Any way, to cut a long story short, just in general chat, they ask you why you're in China, what's your job etc, all very nice and casual, maybe this was a warning, I should have said I was a copper back home! So after the business, the girl leaves and is immediately followed by a guy carrying a drink tray with two glasses of Whisky, I immediatly knew I was in trouble.
I said I hadn't ordered a drink, so no thanks, but he still presented me with a bill for 35,000 RMB!!!! I again said politely that I hadn't ordered the drinks and didn't want them, he then became very angry and the "muscle" then entered the room, he was shouting about offending my host, I was a guest, what I had down was illegal and I had to pay.
They roughed me up a bit, I paid on Credit card and left, and cancelled the card 30 seconds later. I thought at the time, to test them, I'm a fairly big front rower and still think I can handle myself OK, thank god I didn't. My mate has just returned and the same thing happened to him, but he pushed his luck, the result isn't pretty, he's very sick and sorry. (Not the same place by the way, this was a place off the main road that runs off the Bund)
So guys, it's a warning, it's tempting, but I wouldn't go there, this is about the 5th instance of this I've heard of, unfortunately, all since I returned, I had know about it before leaving Oz, I don't think I would have tried, it's just not worth it
I was staying at the Hyatt on the Bund, in October 2014, just about anywhere you go you get accosted by people wanting to take you for a massage etc, I had resisted up till this point, but I was leaving the Hote one morning and a well spoken fellow, asked if I was interested in a massage, just around the corner. I thought, why not, you have to sample the local delights, so I followed him to a place, literally in the next street, directly behind the Hotel.
Was ushered in and met by an old Mama San, very chatty, led me into a room to choose from about 5 very good looking girls.
Any way, to cut a long story short, just in general chat, they ask you why you're in China, what's your job etc, all very nice and casual, maybe this was a warning, I should have said I was a copper back home! So after the business, the girl leaves and is immediately followed by a guy carrying a drink tray with two glasses of Whisky, I immediatly knew I was in trouble.
I said I hadn't ordered a drink, so no thanks, but he still presented me with a bill for 35,000 RMB!!!! I again said politely that I hadn't ordered the drinks and didn't want them, he then became very angry and the "muscle" then entered the room, he was shouting about offending my host, I was a guest, what I had down was illegal and I had to pay.
They roughed me up a bit, I paid on Credit card and left, and cancelled the card 30 seconds later. I thought at the time, to test them, I'm a fairly big front rower and still think I can handle myself OK, thank god I didn't. My mate has just returned and the same thing happened to him, but he pushed his luck, the result isn't pretty, he's very sick and sorry. (Not the same place by the way, this was a place off the main road that runs off the Bund)
So guys, it's a warning, it's tempting, but I wouldn't go there, this is about the 5th instance of this I've heard of, unfortunately, all since I returned, I had know about it before leaving Oz, I don't think I would have tried, it's just not worth it