What's the biggest tourist rip-off you know?

[Austrian Gull]

There's no place like NSC to vent your fury so here goes:

Just come back from a lovely week in Languedoc with the family to escape the gloom of an Austrian winter. The only downer? Our trip to the Pont du Gard, the magnificent Roman aqueduct outside Nîmes.

18€ to park! Didn't matter if it was for five minutes or five hours. Impossible to park in the roads around. An obscene amount IMHO.

My question to you - what's the worst tourist rip-off that you've experienced?

 

[Miocene]

9 Euro for a coffee in Venice and that was the "cheap" one. Head away from the tourist areas and its slightly cheaper!

 

[Weststander]

Geneva Airport a fortnight ago, in departures, before going through passports/security:

Regular Burger King food for 4, including 2 kids meals, and absolutely no extras ...... £40!

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Currency exchange last year at Eurostar St Pancras.

1 Pound bought you 1.01 Euros.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Centerparcs. Apart from the great pool, its a rip off as you pay a lot and then pay again for nearly everything else. Expensive average grub and just ok accommodation. Horrible place.

 

[tubaman]

Another BIG vote for Venice. I'm only going to go back when they have finished it.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Sea life centre brighton, queue of 30 & the other 29 had free or half price vouchers

 

[Hamilton]

Agreed. Cafe Florian in St Mark's Square is the biggest rip off. I think they were going to try and charge the two of us 30 euros for a coffee there. I left.

 

[BensGrandad]

Chessington and Thorpe Park you pay a reasonable amount fora family ticket, not cheap, and then have to pay for parking. I think the price should include 1 car free as you have problems getting to either without a car if you have a family.

 

[Weststander]

Centerparcs. Apart from the great pool, its a rip off as you pay a lot and then pay again for nearly everything else. Expensive average grub and just ok accommodation. Horrible place.

I love Centreparcs, and we would go more if we could.


But it is incredibly expensive. The bills add up, and the stack of debit/card slips at the end of the holiday, add up to small fortune on top of the villa cost.

But great for cycling, no cars, and the kids are in heaven.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Bodrum airport unless its changed food and drink by far the most expensive I've ever seen

 

[Muzzy]

Disneyland Paris. Shit hole with bells on!

St marks sq, Venice as previously mentioned. To take a coach to the Tronchetto coach park costs 360 euros and you then have to pay 21 euros to park! Beat that for a rip off!

Isle of white ferry, the most expensive ferry crossing in the world (mile for mile)

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The Crystal Palace Stadium Tour - 2 shillings to get in and a free wooden rattle were the highlights of an atrocious tour that took in such delights as an almost completely empty trophy cabinet apart from one Zenith Data Systems Leyland Daf Auto Windscreen Cup, walking under a few damp, rotting, woodworn infested stands that you feared might collapse at any moment (hard hats supplied) and on into Speroni's Bistro for deep fried Argentinian horse buttock with Julian's special chilli mash before ending up in aisle 6 at Sainsburys where we were all treated to ginger snaps for pudding and told in no uncertain terms to piss off through the sliding doors at the front of the store without so much as a bye or leave.

'A travesty' said the Croydon Chronicle.

 

[rdigs24]

Burger king at Sharm el Sheikh airport a couple of years back. Made the mistake of buying two adult and 2 kids meals on a debit card. When I looked at my statement the following week the greasy gits had charged me 70 quid once the Egyptian/UK exchange had taken place. We wouldn't have gone there but the only other choice was a restaurant (ahem) with a all day breakfast that looked that it had been there literally all day.

 

[SeagullSongs]

Wembley. £13 for a portion of fish and chips and a small bottle of Carling.

 

[Superphil]

The UK

 

[Ernest]

£4 for a manky low quality pie at the AMEX

 

[danish seagull]

The UK

Haha no way, the UK is cheaper than the majority of Europe!

 

[happypig]

Bodrum airport unless its changed food and drink by far the most expensive I've ever seen

I was going to say Dalaman, probably the same company.

 

[Max Paper]

Euro Disney hotel, £30 for a pint and a small glass of wine. f***ing wankers.