Holiday rip-offs – Travel Corkboard
Guardian Travel readers' holiday horror stories - thanks to everyone who contributed
Tell us about getting ripped off on holiday #TravelCorkboard for Sat Guardian - mine was paying £8 for a punnet of strawberries in Russia!
@GuardianTravel Ashamed to say I fell for the 'cheap' menu, beers (no menu) 8E each when I first started travelling. #TravelCorkboard
@GemmaTravel @GuardianTravel taxi in Budapest same journey ranging from 600HUF to 2600HUF #TravelCorkboard agree a price in advance
@GuardianTravel I paid about £8 for a henna foot tattoo in Marrakech-she wanted £30! Always check the price before. #TravelCorkboard
@GemmaTravel on eastern european food topics... mine was paying $16 for a cauliflower in Ukraine #TravelCorkboard @GuardianTravel
@GuardianTravel I paid £9 for a coke in Rome! Although we did enjoy the atmosphere. #TravelCorkboard
@guardiantravel assistant confused me with Kenyan shillings and I paid £20 for an ornament which I thought cost £2! #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel I got charged €30 for 6 bits of 'free' tapas in a Lisbon bar. The waiter then forgot how to speak English! #TravelCorkboard
@gemmatravel @guardiantravel 200baht for a motorbike ride in thailand he "got lost"& tried to charge me 300, settled on 250 #travelcorkboard
@GuardianTravel I paid £5 for a postcard in Costa Rica. Avoided sending it to anyone when I realised my error! #TravelCorkboard
"@tfl89: @guardiantravel #TravelCorkboard paid €30 for a tasty blackbean&rice on 1st night in barcelona.oranges&cheap sangria last few days- @guardiantravel taxi from thai border to siem reap stopped 6 times trying to make us buy things from friends. TAKE THE BUS! #travelcorkboard
@GemmaTravel @GuardianTravel paying £30 for one beer and one mediocre cocktail on the Champs Elysses. Not worth it! #TravelCorkboard
@GemmaTravel @GuardianTravel £60 for 6 mohitos in Havana-was slightly drunk & jetlagged & got screwed over by dual currency #TravelCorkboard
£16 for two bowls of coco pops at a B&B in Marseille. The bill came after we'd eaten. Bit of a shock... #TravelCorkboard @GuardianTravel
@GuardianTravel Spent 11€ for tiny bottle of water in Ibiza in a club. Realised later Beer cost 10€ #TravelCorkBoard
$200 for a bottle of vodka at Nikki Beach, Miami. Saw same bottle in airport next day for $14... #TravelCorkboard @GuardianTravel
Paying UK travel reps at hotels in Sharm £50 or more extra for the same excursion, same quality #TravelCorkboard @GuardianTravel by locals
@GuardianTravel bought 1st class o/night train ticket to Sapa. Reality: 2nd class, no electricity, 4am arrival (2hrs early) #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel We were charged 40euro for a taxi to literally go round the corner in Barcelona we were drunk though #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel 60Euros on breakfast for 2 in Paris..1 of us had food poisoning so only had a tiny but pricey bread roll #travelcorkboard
@GuardianTravel paid €22 for a vodka lemonade at the club Space Ibiza. Smirnoff vodka in the airport €11 a bottle! #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Lost in 'Nam- jumped on the back of local's mtrbikes,drove around in circles & dropped where we started- £5 #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel #Travelcorkboard Paid US$110 for champagne in Scottsdale, Arizona. Per glass. That's Scottsdale for ya.
@GemmaTravel @GuardianTravel £15 for a regular whooper meal at Burger King at Istanbul airport #ripoff #travelcorkboard
