Sightseeing in Oklahoma City - what to see. Complete travel guide

1. Cash and valuable things are recommended to be stored in safe in the hotel as almost all hotel rooms are equipped with a kind of safe. If there is no safe in a hotel room the valuables and cash can be deposited at the reception of the hotel. One should necessarily have a hotel card and a copy of documents of identification when setting off to the city exploration.

2. Usual utility supplied voltage in hotels is 110V. All the hotels and inns are equipped with American standard size sockets. Before a trip one should check all the electrical appliances for compatibility and get necessary connectors and adapters.

3. One of the problems faced by many foreign tourists visiting Oklahoma-City is lack of public toilets. In case of urgent necessity one may visit lavatories located in large stores and shopping and entertaining centers.

4. Restaurants and cafés welcome tips. 10 – 15% of a total sum of the order will be quite enough for a cash reward of a waiter. In a bar a 50 cent coin will be enough for each order to reward a barman. Maids and hair stylists are commonly rewarded with a 0.5 – 1USD.

5. A taxi in Oklahoma-City should better be called by phone as stopping a free taxi car in a street is rather challenging. A taxi driver also expects some cash reward. A 10% addition to the total sum according to the counter will be quite enough. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

6. Tourists are not recommended to set to the remote areas of the city alone in the evening or at night. Central streets on the contrary are safe and sound for night walking tours as these are crowded even deep in the night.

7. Tourists should be cautious and keep an eye on personal things especially begs and overcoats. For reasons of safety tourists should not use individual services no matter how profitable and tempting the offer would seem.

8. Street call boxes offer the optimum rates for inter city and international calls. Almost all the streets of the city are equipped with such boxes. The boxes accept coins and special plastic cards. Some of the call boxes accept credit cards as payment means. The highest call rates are offered in the hotels.