£99 on sweets

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AIBU to be annoyed with dh?

He has taken dc to captain candy in Dubrovnik Croatia which is essentially a pick n mix place. He bought three bags of sweets and it came to £99.

The price is unclear and it is a tourist trap.

If anyone goes to captain candy please avoid.

I can't believe it still.

Ridiculous!

I can see all the photos on my laptop

£99 . Ridiculous.

That lot would have set you back about £5 in Wilkos.

I must say that we went to Split , granted this was 1989 , and done a day trip to Dubrovnik on our last day . Couldn't give the coins away , Then again there was no Captain Candy type place there then to rip off people.

The most I have spent is £15 and even that shocked me! It used to be a regular occurrence until I developed some common sense! I was quite disgusted with myself. And that was the days when you could get a bagful for a few pennies and was not a tourist trap situation, just a totally greedy pig situation!!!

I can see all the pictures. To be honest the sweets look a bit stale but I hope you all enjoy them anyway op!

Highheels I was about to jump in with Disneyland Paris too, except the ACTUAL McDonald's was only €30 for 6 of us. We ate in the hard rock cafe the first day and decided after that we'd survive on McDonald's and baguettes until we got home. Also in Disneyland Paris €6.40 for a tiny box of popcorn and they wouldn't let us hand it back. I'm still raging!

Ps yanbu but yabu for being mad at dp, some sellers have a knack of screwing you over!!! ( yes I'm still thinking about the popcorn!!)

I can see the photos you posted and if it was me you’d also be seeing a copy of the divorce petition I’d be issuing to my DH too

I can see all the pics 😆 The bags look the size of a crisp packet each if that helps.

God this happened to my mum. Way back in the days of francs. She went into a shop on the last day of the holiday and asked for three boxes of chocolates for some birthdays that were imminent. Got back to the car staring at her hands and had spent £120!! There were 6 chocolates in each box. Dad marched back to the shop because mum was so embarrassed she wouldn’t go in and demanded the owner took the boxes back (she agreed to take two back) he was furious because it was his ‘vin de table’ money we still talk about the golden chocolates

To be fair, the quality was amazing and no-one was hungry for the rest of the day.

I would have felt too sick to eat anything for the rest of the week!

Wow. I have seen said shop and thankfully walked on by...

The exchange trap consists of tourists not knowing exactly how many kunas you get per pound. As the exchange is somewhere in the region of 8:1, they round down the kunas, round up the exchange rate and round up the price so you get 5:1 at best and say, if price was 23.99, they round it up to 30 kunas, so at "tourist exchange rate" you'd pay £6, extra rounded up to £10 for what would normally be £3

Eh? Why aren't people just paying the 24 kunas? I'd never trust a foreign retailer to fairly convert to pounds or euros without checking the exchange rate myself.

It's almost always going to be cheaper to pay in local currency, whether by cash or card. I've seen it on here that Turkish restaurants 'prefer euros' to local currency. Well of course they do if it allows them to inflate the price by using an exchange rate that suits them.

I got stung 24 euros for an iced tea and a pineapple juice in Rhodes this year...i was gutted !!!

The Ritter shop in Berlin is similar - a total rainbow of the cutest tiny squares of assorted Ritter flavours! BUT - there were prices everywhere, and scales so you could check the weight before you buy.

Lovely dangerous shop

I don't understand why anyone would pay nearly 100 pounds for a few sweets! Just say "sorry i don't have enough" hand them back and walk out. Get the children some normal priced sweets. So yes I'd be mad at my partner for that but he wouldn't pay it either!

I can't imagine spending more than our weekly food budget for our family of 5 on a few sweets to save embarrassment! Yes I understand people may be shy/anxious etc but some people don't have that kind of money to waste. Could have had a lovely meal on your holiday for that amount!

They don’t actually look like nice sweets.

Poor DC, she won’t have to eat them if they’re minging will she OP?

unlike DH

I thought the same @origamiunicorn but then revised my estimate to “ladies sanitary waste bag” size

I thought the same @origamiunicorn but then revised my estimate to “ladies sanitary waste bag” size

Ooh I think you're right 😲

I wouldn't normally post on threads like these, but OP's getting such a hard time about the photos!

What do you mean by that?

Oh OP, it's so easily done. We narrowly avoided similar in the south of France this summer.

Lovely shop, called something like Pirates' Treasure. Staff dressed as pirates, all the sweets tipping out of treasure chests and barrels and it just looked amazing. DC desperate to go in. Just as we were picking up the bags we heard a bit of a commotion - another family was getting very upset with the staff member. My French was good enough to understand that the shop wanted something like 20 euros for what looked like a handful of sweets.

Hastily shepherded the DC out and bought them Haribo from the supermarket instead.

That place is a huge tourist trap and gets slated on trip advisor!

Can derail the thread?! We are off to cavtat in Tuesday! Can you recommend things to do? DC are 10 and 13

Obviously we will avoid Captain rip off sweets

One to avoid in Prince's Street Edinburgh is a recently opened sweet shop. Apparently it's extortionate! Will check name and come back.