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I'm going to Egypt, I'll bargain. Tell me, please, what is the price for locals for the following souvenirs and where is it cheaper to buy?
1. Drum darbuka, albeit shabby large / medium / small; 2. Bust of Tutankhamen from different materials, 40 cm high; 3. Figurine of a black cat 60 cm; 4. Large figurine of the recumbent black dog Anubis; 5. Rastafarian hat. 6. Wicker and leather ottomans. 7. Mosaic egg light. 8. Painted hexagonal pendant lamp. 9. Vase with Egyptian pictures. I am going to visit Aswan, Luxor, Hurghada, Cairo. Thanks.
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I doubt there are locals here. There are definitely foreigners working there, but for them the price is also slightly higher than for locals. Formally, there are three price categories: for tourists, for foreigners working there and for locals. And then it all depends on your ability to bargain. Well, the influx of tourists in a particular period also affects the pricing policy.
From my personal experience, a good bargain is obtained when you walk for three days and bargain about the same thing. Already on the second day they communicate with you in a completely different way, and on the third day you can sit and drink tea and smoke a hookah. Without aggression, active, noisy, fun, even neighboring sellers are already pulling up, but still the price is not like for locals ...
From my personal experience, a good bargain is obtained when you walk for three days and bargain about the same thing. Already on the second day they communicate with you in a completely different way, and on the third day you can sit and drink tea and smoke a hookah. Without aggression, active, noisy, fun, even neighboring sellers are already pulling up, but still the price is not like for locals ...
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answered 3 years ago
All this can be ordered from alik, it will be cheaper. Egyptian merchants now usually order such goods themselves from alik
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answered 3 years ago
The vast majority of Egyptian souvenirs are made in China. So, if you really want to, put aliexpress on your phone and go ahead.
There are locals on this forum. But if you expected that now you will be given a price list for all the indicated goods, then in vain. Walking around, bargaining is part of the national culture.
I will add to the first post. Learn a few words in Arabic. Then the attitude is completely different. If you are respectful - and to you with respect.
There are locals on this forum. But if you expected that now you will be given a price list for all the indicated goods, then in vain. Walking around, bargaining is part of the national culture.
I will add to the first post. Learn a few words in Arabic. Then the attitude is completely different. If you are respectful - and to you with respect.
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answered 3 years ago
I will subscribe with the words Vika284. everything that we once bought in egi can now be found in the shopping center of the same Kyiv. labeled "made in china". it is clear that the quality is not the same ... but about the same as now in the old market or at Leila
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answered 3 years ago
Now the hotels are 100% occupied, plus a lot of those who have never been to Egypt have come from the Russian Federation, the prices have risen twice, on all the faces of the merchants it is written, "Hello Russian sucker, we are very glad to see you."
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answered 3 years ago
how ridiculous are these attempts by some Slavs to rise at the expense of others. guys, yes, all shuravi for them are suckers! these are the Europeans, who rotted them and took them away for centuries, for them raisa and sahibs, and we .... with us and amikoshonstvo can ride, and deceit for happiness ... we are on the same level for them
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answered 3 years ago
alexfili It’s a pity that you accepted everything from the point of view of Skabeev and Popova, but the facts are a stubborn thing, if in October the price of mangoes on the market in Dahar was $ 1.2, then in November it was $ 2, although last year it was until mid-December in September. Prices for spas in even 4* hotels increased by 2-3 times, I visited 60 hotels in November and everywhere there was a significant rise in prices compared to September. If you think that the increase in prices for massage from $20 to $60 per session is not connected with the arrival of tourists inexperienced in Egyptian realities. it’s better to watch Solovyov, they will definitely tell the truth there.
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answered 3 years ago
allsafat, this is already more constructive) and the sucker is not a mammoth, he lives everywhere ...
Well, prices fell after 15 years and the plane crash. Many, mostly Ukrainians (but me included))) got a good opportunity to have an inexpensive vacation in Egypt. But the freebie always ends. Well, the prices jumped at first, everyone is skimming the cream. In August, we sold AmarSina for a week for $ 1,500 for two. Then all prices will come to equilibrium.
Worse, if tourism at all will be available only to the very rich (
Well, prices fell after 15 years and the plane crash. Many, mostly Ukrainians (but me included))) got a good opportunity to have an inexpensive vacation in Egypt. But the freebie always ends. Well, the prices jumped at first, everyone is skimming the cream. In August, we sold AmarSina for a week for $ 1,500 for two. Then all prices will come to equilibrium.
Worse, if tourism at all will be available only to the very rich (
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answered 3 years ago
I have been flying to Egypt for six years: Hurghada, Taba, Sharm El Sheikh, but when this year, when departing at the airport of Sharm, I ran into a compatriot with foam in her mouth proving that she bought black cumin oil for $ 200 at the factory (?!) in Sharm, couldn't resist writing. All resort towns are located in a lifeless desert, where there is not even water, where there are NO enterprises. Everything from potatoes and mangoes to oils and medicines is brought from the banks of the Nile. Tourists in Hurghada, in Sharm are brought to an EXPENSIVE (!) shopping center and guides (usually our compatriots married to an Egyptian) blatantly lie that this is a factory and you should buy only here (in Hurghada they even demonstrate the oil extraction process, in Sharm they don’t bother with this) - only today a 20% discount. In Sharm there is a fixed price store George Clooney, his phone number is + 20 109 016 14 08, where you can buy everything 2 (!) times cheaper than anywhere else. Moreover, you can order a free transfer via Viber or WhatsApp at a convenient time for you.
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answered 3 years ago