Today was the day. It was time to leave Jodhpur and make my way to Pushkar. I knew it was the right day as the guesthouse owner had accidentally woken me up the previous morning at 06:00 because he didn't look at the calendar well enough.
"It's time to check out!"
"No , I leave tomorrow"
"Are you sure"
"Yes, look at the voucher"
"Oh"
He had been standing outside my door for the past 15 minutes and was still awkwardly standing there when I left the room, like some kind of Beatles fan.
"Yes" I replied.
"Ok your driver is here waiting, but you need to pay me 100 rupees for the driver"
'100 rupees? But the drop-off is included with the accommodation!"
"The pick-up from the railway station was included but the drop-off is not"
"Do you have the accommodation voucher?" I asked
He went back into the office and come back a few seconds later with the paper voucher in his hands and pointed to the abbreviated room plan checklist. He pointed to the ticked box for the 'continental breakfast plan' (CP).
"See this, it means that the pick-up is included in the service, and the drop-off is extra".
He then pointed to the unticked box for the 'American Plan' (AP).
"This one means the drop-off is included".
I stood there for about 5 seconds and then pointed to the writing at the bottom of the voucher.
"It says pick-up and drop-off included".
I'm not entirely sure what his reaction to that was as I was a little bit miffed at his cheeky move to extract some extra money from me, but basically what happened is I got onto the tuk tuk without paying the extra 100 rupees. 'I'll remember that place' I thought to myself.
I did remember that place, mostly due to the fact that I was actually supposed to be staying at a hotel with a completely different name, located 500m down the road!
Did I ultimately get ripped off? It remains a mystery to this very day.
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