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| Tourists show off their outrageous ice cream bill |
Several tourist were left burning with anger that the ice cream cones they purchased melted in their hands.
Four British tourists have been stunned after being charged $85 for four ice cream cones, in Rome, Italy.
Roger Bannister, his brother Steve, and their wives Wendy and Joyce, ordered four cones with ice cream at the Antica Roma ice cream shop, where they were on vacation.
Roger, who is a native of Dudley, said: "They did not even say thank you when we paid. I'm not surprised. How can they get away with charging $85 for four cones of ice cream? The cones were three flavors and a couple of cookies, but if you want whipped cream they charged another $5 each."
“This is the most expensive standard ice cream cone I have ever heard about, and I fully understand their anger. Some locals love to take advantage of tourists visiting the area, but unfortunately, these type of incidents leave a bad taste with vacationers causing those tourists to refuse to come back again, thereby hurting the tourist industry in the long run,” Peggy Stewart, 31, of Naperville, Illinois told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the outrageous price for ice cream.
Local councilor Matteo Costantini went to the family to find out how much they had paid and was surprised by the amount, eventually offering to reimburse the family.
He said: “They were just outraged by what they had been asked to pay. It is scandalous and we should not allow this to happen.”