When we arrived we found out that Honolulu "public" transport does not allow luggage on buses, so you have no choice but to pay a commercial travel company to get you from the airport to anywhere. No where else we have been in the world have we found this particular kind of rip off. I wonder how many Honolulu councillors are payed for by the transport companies to protect their interests?
This morning we got up early to get down to the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbour, where there are supposed to be 1300 free public tickets available every day, to find out they had all gone by 07:15. Really? 1300 people turned up here in person by that time of day? Or did they all get scalped by commercial tour companies, plenty of whom can book me on a tour of the Arizona memorial if I'm willing to pay them.....NO, if you are willing to let commercial operators profit from your memorials, then I too will lose all respect for what they are supposed to be remembering.
If we had been in Badger we would have moved on from this place pretty sharpish......
This morning we got up early to get down to the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbour, where there are supposed to be 1300 free public tickets available every day, to find out they had all gone by 07:15. Really? 1300 people turned up here in person by that time of day? Or did they all get scalped by commercial tour companies, plenty of whom can book me on a tour of the Arizona memorial if I'm willing to pay them.....NO, if you are willing to let commercial operators profit from your memorials, then I too will lose all respect for what they are supposed to be remembering.
If we had been in Badger we would have moved on from this place pretty sharpish......
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