Florida Couple Charged $100K for Cruise Ship Dinner
We’ve all seen costs going up currently however you possibly can’t blame this story on inflation. So how did a Florida couple get a dinner invoice for $100K on their cruise?
Whenever you guide a cruise there are many free meal choices that are normally fairly good. Now for individuals who need one thing completely different like Italian meals, sushi, or steak, cruise ships provide specialty eating places for a payment. This Florida couple, Alex and Alicia, just lately booked a cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas. Throughout their seven day cruise, they determined to dine at Jamie’s Italian which is among the ship’s specialty eateries.
Alex and Alicia loved a multi-course meal of crispy calamari, garlic bread, penne Pomodoro, arugula, and parmesan salad, adopted by a lemon meringue cheesecake and sizzling chocolate with vanilla ice cream. When the couple checked their shipboard account, they noticed a cost of $98,638.93 from the restaurant!
Clearly they didn’t eat $100K in meals. It appears that evidently somebody erroneously entered an ID quantity into the gratuity field as a substitute of the right tip quantity. Drawback solved, proper? Probably not. Royal Caribbean reversed the faulty cost however the cost nonetheless appeared on their bank card. That resulted in a maintain on their card for the remainder of their cruise. “This has been fairly tense to take care of whereas on trip,” stated the couple. “We had our card decline whereas off the boat on an island, presumably as a result of this authorization was locking up the obtainable credit score on the cardboard.”
Ultimately, they noticed this as a tech drawback and never the fault of their server on the restaurant.
[SOURCE News Channel 8/Cruise Hive]
