"As a very infrequent visitor to London I anticipated that a quiet few drinks with family might be pricey, compared to those at home in the South West. I was predictably astonished at the sheer vulgarity of the level of the excessive charges. £30.00 bought us 3 x drinks that would have cost us half that in Devon. My bemusement turned to anger when, having returned with drinks from the bar,I found that I had been charged a 12.5% service charge . How utterly ridiculous is that not satisfied with exorbitant charges, I am then clobbered with an unsolicited charge for fetching my own drinks. Quite extraordinary."
