A newlywed couple who were spending their honeymoon in Mykonos, Greece, shared how they were forced to pay $400 for only two drinks and a snack.
Lindsay Breen and her husband Alex went to the DK Oyster restaurant for a ‘quick snack’ and they seemed very excited as they posed for photos with their drinks and oysters.
However, they had no idea about the cost as the menu had no prices.
The couple from Toronto, Canada, said they were pushed into ordering oysters as soon as they got inside.
“They immediately said ‘do you want oysters?’ They were very presumptuous. We said yes and he said ‘a dozen?’ so we said yes because a dozen is a typical order.
“My husband ordered a beer and I asked for a cocktail menu and he came back with the beer but I had to ask again for a cocktail menu and he started rhyming off different kinds of alcohol he had, vodka, gin but I asked for a menu.”
Lindsay said it was hard to see what they had and when the waiter finally brought a cocktail menu, she said that “it didn’t have the brand or the drinks, nothing.
“So I said fine I’ll have an aperol spritz because they clearly didn’t have a menu that they wanted to give me.”
She also said that they were served large drinks even though they ordered normal-sized beverages.
“My husband went to the toilet and when he came back he said he thought he’d seen a menu inside that said it was 29 euro per oyster and I said there’s no way,” Lindsay continued.
“We had already eaten the oysters so we thought ‘oh God, what are we getting ourselves into with this bill?’”
The waiter then returned with a large trolley of desserts and started placing them on their table.
“We said we didn’t want them and he started getting offended that we didn’t want to take them so I can see how people would be pressured to take more,” she expressed.
When they were about to leave the restaurant, the husband had to go into a backroom to pay for their snack.
“They gave him the bill which was over 400 euros. He was shocked and asked for a breakdown,” she said.
“He didn’t want to get himself in a bad situation so he ended up paying it. In Canadian dollars it’s over 600 dollars. It’s so crazy to pay that for a snack.”
DK Oyster’s Tripadvisor page is filled with one-star reviews from disappointed and furious customers who also had similar experiences.
One tourist wrote: “Wish we looked at the reviews before! This place is a joke! 350 euros for 4 drinks!! I would definitely NOT recommend going here.”
Another said: “DO NOT GO HERE! Absolutely disgusting behavior from manager and staff. Cocktails are awful and charged €125 plus service for 2! Waiters made us feel very uncomfortable.”
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