Guam Tourist Traps

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  • Driving to the airport -- watch the turning lanes
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  • View of the airport (shaped like a proa?)
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  • the whole North-West area
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Reviews from VirtualTourist Members

Taxi swindlers at Kmart

by joetouristo

Beware of taxi rip off from K-mart. The meters are rigged. Video tape the transaction, the trip and the meter. They will threaten to make a case against you if you report it to the police. The police seemed irritated with me when I tried to report it, so I made no report. If you video tape it, you can report it and it will all be on record. Rent a car, take the trolly. Don't do business with taxi services.

Guam Airport

by pangelipc

The airport has a large DFS (Duty Free Store) in it and food court (some that you can't find off the airport -- Wienersnitzel). But it can be quite costly, buy only if you didn't get your shopping done elsewhere. You are starving and are stuck at the airport and have no place else to go, then eat there. As for shopping, you can find mostly everything at the local mall or Kmart. It can be pretty quiet, at the inactive gates so you should be able to get a nap if you have to layover at the airport for a few hours. If you can you can use the Travel Lounges for the airlines (Continental & JAL) if you have access.

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24 hr Massage Parlors

by Travel2write

Ok folks, if the massage parlor say "Open 24 hrs a day" this is a front for prostituition. If you are looking for those hanky panky places, be advised that HIV and other STD's are common. Many of the workers are drug addicts or women smuggled by pimps into the country. Best to stay clear! Use a condom and hope you don't catch anything. Best to use the hotel SPA services!

strip bars are expensive

by avi4nature

there are lots of strip joints.....the best one with the best looking girls are CLUB USA, VIKINGS once a stripper talks to you.....you have to buy her a drink........normally vodka and cranberry juice costing US$20 bucks......... try to sit near the dances/ strippers floor rather then at a table away from the dancefloor

tourist area MAP

by bibas

so far the best map of the major hotels, shopping centres & restaurants in the Tumon Bay shopping area . left-click to enlarge . print-out and memorize these maps on your flight in, and it will save your precious time & taxi/bus fare .

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Tuman area

by bmiller39

Street hustlers like to offer alls sorts of things to tourists and then offer them an expensive cab ride to get to the place.Cabs are outrageously expensive. So negotiate prices first and expect to pay a lot. Know the price before you take a taxi There are shuttle buses that run around the main part of the island and it is possible to buy a day pass for 5.00 for unlimited trips.

Talofofo Falls

by kenmerk

Well the falls are pleasant enough, but they have converted the area around it into a kind of playland of some sorts. (complete with a $20.00 admission fee...) Which is about $18 over the worth of seeing the falls. The one thing here that is worth seeing is Yokoi's cave, just because of the interest of seeing where one Japanese soldier hid out for 28 years in the jungle...

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You cannot imagine how far...

by Trina2383

You cannot imagine how far away Guam is from North America until you fly there with a toddler. Guam is south of Japan, east of the Philippines, north of Indonesia and just far, far away from everything, located in the western Pacific about 13 degrees north of the equator. It's the southernmost and largest island of the Marianas Island Arc. The island chain forms part of the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea.

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Guam on one hand is a toursit...

by megraham

Guam on one hand is a toursit trap, on the another a laid back island community. However, it can easily be compared to the Honolulu area. The T-shirts and all the sports activities to entertain the tourist while separating them from the money they planned to spend on vacation. Personally I was never ripped off and felt they was an understanding about the nature of Guam's activities. And if you hunted around you could find some reasonably priced activities such a scuba diving.

I went to the cafeteria in...

by jihyeok_choe

I went to the cafeteria in Hilton Hotel.we wanna enjoy the nightlife in there.but we went there with 5-year-old baby. so we couldn't be allowed to enter that place because of that baby.I knew child could not stay cafeteria after 10.P.M.so we had to return to our hotel.

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