{"id":1764,"date":"2020-02-15T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamad.blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2020-02-15T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T15:06:13","slug":"we-almost-ended-up-in-greece-but-you-cant-go-wrong-with-a-pakistani-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamad.blog\/2020\/02\/15\/we-almost-ended-up-in-greece-but-you-cant-go-wrong-with-a-pakistani-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"We Almost Ended Up In Greece, But You Can&#8217;t Go Wrong With A Pakistani Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I asked my wife to look for a hotel for us at a resort town called \u00c7e\u015fme. She headed to Booking.com to make the reservations. By giving 0 shits about the location, she sorted the listings by price and found a cheap and nice property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was cheaper than everything I had seen in \u00c7e\u015fme so it surprised me a bit. But she had made the reservations by that time. Later, but not too late, I found out that she booked us up in a resort town of Greece instead of Turkey and the hotel is in Chios and not \u00c7e\u015fme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was annoyed, but I was also surprised. How did Booking.com recommend her a place in Greece instead of Turkey. The reason is that both the places are <em>really<\/em> close. They are about 15 KMs apart and it takes merely 20 minutes to reach by ferry from \u00c7e\u015fme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My suggestion to the travel website; when you make a recommendation like that, it&#8217;s not a feature but a bug. I understand they recommend near-by places when sorting by price, but they shouldn&#8217;t be recommending near by places beyond borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s such a shame that we can&#8217;t stay at the property we booked because obviously we can&#8217;t go to Greece without a visa. It would have been fun though, to cross borders like that on a ferry. 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