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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    48 minutes ago

    You can always say: “I didn’t order that, and I’m not paying for it.” If they don’t like it, they can call the police. Most cities with heavy tourism take a dim view of cheats. Bad for business.

    I found Rome overcrowded, moderately expensive and full of tourists, but was there to meet friends, so I chose to put up with it for a few days. Avoiding the tourist traps, it’s not a bad city of its size, far less of a rip-off than, say, London. After seeing my friends, I went on to another part of Italy which was much more pleasant, less crowded and more affordable. The food was better, too.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      2 days ago

      25 dollars for an ice cream is highway robbery.

      Granted she seems like the kind of person that I celebrate getting robbed on the highway, details.

      • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
        18·
        2 days ago

        I’d agree it’s an excessive price. but looks like an American tourist. Probs just some impromptu tariff.

        • DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          “Biomass tariff. Just in case you take it back to America with you. If you poop in Italy, save your receipt, you’ll get a refund.”

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Or they went to a total tourist trap type place. Either way I’m okay with it. Happens everywhere.

  • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been told a fun thing to do in Rome is to walk up to one of the tourist trap restaurants that has a tout at the door. Those guys know like 5 or 6 different languages, and they try to lure unsuspecting tourists to sit down at their restaurant. Anyhow, the play is to walk up to one of these touts and to start speaking Classical Latin at them. Latin is close enough to several Romance languages they do know that it seems familiar, but it’s not quite intelligible. And it’s really confusing to them to figure out which one you are speaking.

    Of course it helps if you’re conversational in Latin.

    • the_tab_key@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Not knowing Latin: it’s more fun to see if you can get them to tell you how much they charge for a bottle of water before they seat you