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VietNamNet Bridge – The management of car parks at tourist attractions in the ancient city of Hue has seemed rather casual, as busses are charged different fee rates at different car parks, without receipts issued in the right manner.
While parking at the car parks in the city, a travel hot spot in the central province of Thua Thien Hue, drivers usually receive no tickets from responsible officers there, and in reality, no officers even appear, a regular tour guide named Phi Long told Tuoi Tre.
But when drivers are about to leave the sites, a man or a woman in casual dress appears and asks for money. Even worse, the collectors give no receipts upon receiving money. All the tourist sites are managed by the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.
The tour guide gave an example from July 16 when he took two buses to the mausoleums of Minh Mang and Khai Dinh, where the vehicles were charged VND30,000 in total.
The officer there angrily gave receipts only after drivers asked for them.
When they were about to leave another site, the Royal Palace, a man came and asked for the same sum. But later he raised it to VND40,000 for the two buses after the drivers firmly argued that they would only pay it with receipts. And the latter receipts had no seal of the conservation center.
Ironically, the man had earlier offered to keep the buses for free if Long agreed to take his delegation of tourists to his souvenir shop.
Mai Xuan Minh, vice director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Center, told Tuoi Tre that he has never heard of the case. He added that his center awarded the rights to keep cars to individuals.
He promised he would instruct car parks in Hue to post tables announcing parking prices in the next ten days.
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