Every product has an upgrade
Combo ticket. Hop-on hop-off. Private guide upgrade. Audio guide in nine languages. Priority access. Pickup included. Gift card available.
They have turned looking at a place into a menu of extras.
A bus to somewhere forty minutes away
The app sends you to a famous place forty minutes from where you are, on a coach, for a fee.
You were standing beside a fairy fort the whole time.
Nobody queues at a holy well
No ticket desk. No line. Just a well, a tree with rags tied to it and a thousand years of people who came before you.
Curated means commissioned
Everything in the app is something somebody sells and GetYourGuide takes a share of.
If nobody sells it, it is not curated. It is invisible.
What we do instead
Touch the map. See what is there. That is it. That is the whole product.
No ticket. No line. No upgrade.
The difference in one line
GetYourGuide sells you a way in. Most of the best places never had a door.
About the writer
Rickie DohertyFounder of Discover Alone. Owner of ContactCentre.ie since 2014, founder of Dagmor. The real one.
Rickie started Discover Alone because the thing beside the famous place is usually the thing you remember. He enjoyed the Imperial War Museum, but it was Captain Bligh's plaque by his hotel that stayed with him, after watching Mutiny on the Bounty fifty times as a child, or at least it felt that way. He runs the map, hires the writers, and argues with all of them.
Story 21 of 24 from Rickie.← Rickie's last story: Booking.com is a money-hungry bed salesman that cannot see past the front doorRickie's next story: Viator is a money-hungry ticket booth for walks you could take for free →Everything by Rickie Doherty
