4 tourists pay THB8,840 for seafood meal

A group of four tourists were recently taken for a ride by their taxi driver, or at least the restaurant he drove them too.

A tourist of Malaysian-Chinese descent shared a photo of the bill she and three friends were asked to pay at a Bangkok seafood restaurant they were taken to on the recommendation of a very friendly Bangkok taxi driver.

The bill from the Ratchathewi-area Sriayudhya Seafood Market charged the four visitors THB8,840 for a meal including a very generous, mandatory tip of THB800.

User “Connie Ha” elaborated on her experience as a Thai netizen posted it the receipt to Pantip, where it had enraged many in the community for not being cool for Thailand’s tourism image.

On the receipt, the tourists were charged absurd prices for snapper (THB1,800), shrimp (THB1,750) and some crab (THB1,600) with a 17 percent VAT and THB800 service charge.

The four tourists were reportedly taken to the restaurant by a taxi driver who told them it was very popular. It is popular as a rip-off joint, according to its terrific reviews on TripAdvisor, most of which are titled along the lines of “Cheaters, Robbers,” “Tourist ripoff beware,” and “Big robbery!”

It’s routing for taxi and tuk-tuk drivers and other touts to receive a commission for delivering customers to places to eat, drink or party, but it sounds like Sriayudhya is in a class of its own.



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