We had what you could call a dizzy moment on our final night in Siem Reap. We had arranged to go and see some traditional Cambodian dancing called Apsara dancing, which is mostly ran through the expensive hotels in the town.
Our hotel of choice was the Grand Angkor hotel and the ticket also threw in a buffet to boot.
We have kind of developed a mini tradition on our final nights in places where we go and splash out in a nice bar or restaurant so this was our final splurge in Cambodia. Splashing out actually means paying about $4 for a drink instead of the usual $1.
Anyway, we spotted the glasses of champagne on the menu and ordered a glass each. In our excitement we did not realise that we were actually ordering champage from the contents page of the menu. So when we thought we were paying $4 a glass the menu was actually referencing page 4 of the menu. We had 4 glasses of champage in total and a $39 bottle of wine. Not too bad you might think, well it was! We nearly fainted when we saw the final bill of $122! The 4 glasses of champagne on page 4 of the menu were $15 a pop! Our drinks bill was the same price as our weeks accommodation in Siem Reap.
We have still not got over the price or our stupidity but we are trying to forget it............................
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Hope you had a suitably expensive hangover! Just wanted to say Merry Christmas and hope you both have a fab New Year. Thanks for the recent Cambodia postcard - also just got one from Mauritius that confused me a bit but I guess that's just a relaxed postal service! Take care, much love, Carla and crew.xxx
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