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Tourist Trap: Too expensive, arrogant and rude
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  • Written by croisbeauty on Jan 3, 2007
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  • First evening, after I paid 88,00 euros for a simple dinner, my weiter told me, "food is expensive here but the cloths is cheap". Let me tell you what cost me so much in a simple trattoria; grilled meat for two, gnocchi with cheese for one, half liter of red wine, bottle of water and one caffee. I'll be polite and say, it was a robbery.
    Day after day, four in a row, we went in a different restaurants and the food was too expensive and not good at all. The last day of our staying we had a simple lunch in one restaurant nearby Piazza della Spagna; seafood salate for two, glass of white wine for each and one coffee and the price was 47,00 euros. Just amazing!


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    At Least Do This: When travelling around, especially in Italy, I like to have good food and service. More or less I never look at the price list because complete lunch with drink and coffee, in whole of Italy, costs between 20-40 euros, with exeption of top class restaurants. Restaurants in Lombardy are more expensive than those in Veneto, restaurants in Veneto are more expensive than those in Emilia Romagna or Tuscany, so those in southern part of the country should be even less expensive. Rome, however, has the most expensive restaurants in Italy which offers food of law quality.
    Most of the tourists avoid restaurants eating sandwiches out on the streets or ordering one pizza for two when in restaurants.

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  • Written by croisbeauty on Mar 29, 2008
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  • What a tourist should do in Rome in a late afternoon on December 31st if his hotel isn't located right in the center of the town? I found myself around Piazza Argentina, it was 5pm and I wanted to get my hotel fastest it possible. The taxi post was overcrowded by very nervous people and no cars around. I moved to the opposite side of the square trying to catch the taxi while passing by, but it was like mission impossible. My next atempt was to call the radio taxi waiting more than five minutes to get connected and each time I was promiced a car number which is supposed to pick me up. No need to tell that it never happened.

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    Comments for croisbeauty about Rome
    Squinchez Tue Jul 10, 2007 06:33 UTC
     Wow! I cant get enough of Rome! sounds more like Nairobi...i gotta visit Rome in years to come!
    KiKitC Sun Jan 28, 2007 20:28 UTC
     Fabulous pictures. Great tips, I'll be back to read more. It really is a shame that the city is not so clean.
    Maurizioago Mon Jan 8, 2007 17:09 UTC
     Il mio ristorante preferito a Roma č il Tosca (vedi tip sulla mia paginetta di Roma...) Li servono piatti abbondanti a prezzi buoni. Inoltre l'ambiente č simpatico. Ciao!
    croisbeauty Thu Jan 4, 2007 21:52 UTC
     Dunno coz Rome is a huge town with lots of interesting sites.
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