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

[rdigs24]

Wookey Hole. £44 to take your family into a cave.

With all due respect its not just a cave. It's a cave With a few colourful spotlights.

 

[Kumquat]

Thailand. Finding out it was a chap.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Was on a hen do in Puerto Banus last year and we decided to go into some bar or other, not realising (at least, I didn't) that it's a hangout for all those orange-tinted, slow-witted TOWIE parasites. One of the other girls ordered three drinks (standard drinks, not champagne or cocktails scattered with gold leaf), one of which was a Coke, and the bar bill came to just over forty quid.

As she'd already had a few drinks at the time, and the bill was in Euros, I don't think she quite grasped how much she was paying, and handed over the notes. Meanwhile, I winced quietly in the corner, thanked my lucky stars it wasn't my round, and savoured every sip

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Was on a hen do in Puerto Banus last year and we decided to go into some bar or other, not realising (at least, I didn't) that it's a hangout for all those orange-tinted, slow-witted TOWIE parasites. One of the other girls ordered three drinks (standard drinks, not champagne or cocktails scattered with gold leaf), one of which was a Coke, and the bar bill came to just over forty quid.

As she'd already had a few drinks at the time, and the bill was in Euros, I don't think she quite grasped how much she was paying, and handed over the notes. Meanwhile, I winced quietly in the corner, thanked my lucky stars it wasn't my round, and savoured every sip

Space in Ibiza is similarly priced.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Madame Tussards would be a rip off if they paid you to enter.

God yes.

Why on earth would anybody pay more than a couple of quid to gawp at dusty wax versions of people you can see all day every day on the gossip section of the Daily Mail website? A wax Kardashian? SERIOUSLY?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

With all due respect its not just a cave. It's a cave With a few colourful spotlights.

And a rather splendid euphemism for lady parts.


What?

 

[terryberry1]

Thailand. Finding out it was a chap.

 

[terryberry1]

Dubai

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

What about a single bus trip in Brighton, going say just 2 stops along Western Road, using Roger French's fabulously profitable buses?

I think that would give a high £ per mile.

pretty sure it's £1.50 ("short hop fares")

can't think why a tourist would be travelling along western road....not sure norfolk square is high up on the list of "places to go before you die"

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Hi Austrian Gull and 16bha - I read your posts with interest.

Cost and enjoyment are of course quite subjective but pleased to hear that apart from cost the Pont du Gard gets a thumbs up.

As for the Pont du Gard Austrian Gull was not impressed by the 18 Euro “parking” charge The car “parking” charge of 18.00 Euros (for up to five people) is their way of collecting the entrance fee to the whole site.

Just a bit more info for the good readers of NSC – the Pont D’Avignon is not free to visit, its 4.50 Euros per person and this is a fact as I visited it a couple of weeks ago – neither was it free when I went there several years ago. Has good audio visual displays.

I would agree that the Palais des Papes is spectacular and worth the entry charge of 10.50 Euros although this only gets you into a fraction of the place – much better value is to go on the occasional “secret visit” behind the scenes for 24.00 Euros in a limited size group and see much more than the general visit.

Check out the website links below and start making your plans to visit if you are in the area.

Site du Pont du Gard

Pont d'Avignon (Saint Bénezet) - Site Officiel de L'Office de Tourisme de la ville d'Avignon

The Popes' Palace - AVIGNON

My nominations for rip off pricing in London is:-

Madame Tussauds - £22.50 instead of £30.00 per person for online booking.

My Best Value nominations (apart from all the free things you can do - for instance the free RAF museum in Hendon):-

London - Combined ticket for The Monument and Tower Bridge is £9.00 and you get to go across the high level walkways of the bridge and visit the engine room that raises the bridge.

Brighton – Royal Pavilion £10 or if you are a Brighton resident or student then it is £5 with up to four children free.

Glad someone who knew about these things responded about the Pont du Gard. we visiyed it two years ago and it is simply awesome - that a stunning piece of engineering should be that old and that attractive. And the museum/exhibition bit of it is very well presented and fascinating.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

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

We did a day trip from Croatia to venice a few years ago, and were warned off the expensive cafes in St mark's Square. But we deliberately had a drink in one of the cafes right opposite the Doge's palace. About 7 euros each for a nice quiet sit in the shade on a steaming hot day away from the tourist crowds (because not many other people were in the cafe) with a rather pleasant jazz trio tinkling away close by and sitting gazing at one of the most iconic and stunningly attractive buildings on the planet. We did not feel particularly ripped off. We had a good idea of how much it would cost before we sat down.

 

[Peever]

There are rip off and rip offs. I sure most tourists aren't aware that per mile NASA probably spent less to get to the moon than you pay to go from Leicester (watch the pronunciation now) Square to Covent Garden.

We nearly had a grid system in London after the fire but after having another look at it we frankly couldn't be arsed. The plans were later used to construct Milton Keynes.

Well aware of the pronuciation thanks

 

[Nibble]

Can I point out here that I did not have a holiday at CP. We visited for a day while relatives were on holiday at Longleat. I would not even consider it. Pool complex was brilliant though.
Thanks Nibble, I now know why my supermarket shopping is so expensive

They must have spent a fortune hiring that place out for months, plus whatever event company organised their days and paying us actors a fairly substantial amount. I would say the cost must have been in the tens of millions easily.

 

[Nibble]

Was on a hen do in Puerto Banus last year and we decided to go into some bar or other, not realising (at least, I didn't) that it's a hangout for all those orange-tinted, slow-witted TOWIE parasites. One of the other girls ordered three drinks (standard drinks, not champagne or cocktails scattered with gold leaf), one of which was a Coke, and the bar bill came to just over forty quid.

As she'd already had a few drinks at the time, and the bill was in Euros, I don't think she quite grasped how much she was paying, and handed over the notes. Meanwhile, I winced quietly in the corner, thanked my lucky stars it wasn't my round, and savoured every sip

Dreadful. Explains why all thse "reality" stars go broke so quickly though.

 

[Norman Potting]

We did a day trip from Croatia to venice a few years ago, and were warned off the expensive cafes in St mark's Square. But we deliberately had a drink in one of the cafes right opposite the Doge's palace. About 7 euros each for a nice quiet sit in the shade on a steaming hot day away from the tourist crowds (because not many other people were in the cafe) with a rather pleasant jazz trio tinkling away close by and sitting gazing at one of the most iconic and stunningly attractive buildings on the planet. We did not feel particularly ripped off. We had a good idea of how much it would cost before we sat down.

Venice is an amazing place to visit but, as noted, pricey. Usual tourist hint is to eat away from the main areas and the food will be as good and cheaper. With regard to St Mark's Square the advice to us was to go up the tower at the Church on the opposite bank of the Canal - San Giorgio Maggiore - and you get an excellent view of St Mark's - it even has a lift to the top of the tower to save the effort of all those steps. All day vaporetto pass lets you go to the islands which are lovely.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Dreadful. Explains why all thse "reality" stars go broke so quickly though.

Suppose it's not far off Ibiza club prices, but still...

 

[Nibble]

Suppose it's not far off Ibiza club prices, but still...

Never been to Ibiza. The centre of the Island is supposed to be beautiful but the clubbing side of things holds not interest for me. I'm more your enjoying a glass of beer in a little fishing port at sunset kind of old git.

 

[Manx Shearwater]

In a bar in Stockholm airport last week.

Pint of Carlsberg - 65 SEK (about £6.50),
Half of Carlsberg - 59 SEK (£5.90)


Erm....?

 

[BigGully]

Was on a hen do in Puerto Banus last year and we decided to go into some bar or other, not realising (at least, I didn't) that it's a hangout for all those orange-tinted, slow-witted TOWIE parasites. One of the other girls ordered three drinks (standard drinks, not champagne or cocktails scattered with gold leaf), one of which was a Coke, and the bar bill came to just over forty quid.

As she'd already had a few drinks at the time, and the bill was in Euros, I don't think she quite grasped how much she was paying, and handed over the notes. Meanwhile, I winced quietly in the corner, thanked my lucky stars it wasn't my round, and savoured every sip

Precisely the reasons us blokes have kittys .........

 

[User removed 4]

Space in Ibiza is similarly priced.

My company took us to Ibiza for the weekend , It cost the company £6000 for two tables by the dancefloor in pacha, and it was equally expensive the following day at a beach club called the blue marlin, €150 just for a sunbed , I'd have been much happier if they'd have given me a monkey to spend and sent me off to benidorm with loads of northern slappers for the weekend