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Vent: My bus ticket mix-up in Lisbon ate up half a day
I thought I bought a 24-hour transit pass at the airport machine, but it turned out to be just a single trip ticket. I didn't realize until a ticket inspector fined me 60 euros on the tram. Figuring out how to appeal it and get the right pass took me over 4 hours of running between different metro station offices. The language barrier and different rules for tourists made it way harder than I expected. Has anyone else had a simple transit mistake turn into a huge time and money sink while traveling?
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faithb783d ago
Lost a whole afternoon in Rome over a similar ticket validation blunder.
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the_felix3d ago
Oh man, that's rough. I once spent two hours in Berlin trying to buy a zone ticket I didn't even need, just because I panicked at the machine. I mean, the instructions were in like five languages and I still got it wrong. Ended up walking everywhere that day out of pure spite.
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