September the 30th, 2024 – Stories about high Croatian prices continue to cause issues for the country’s reputation. One Robbed in Croatia TikTok video however is drawing plenty of comments from Croats and foreigners alike.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, an Australian tourist recently shared her experience from a holiday spent here in Croatia on TikTok, which quickly went viral on social media. The title Robbed in Croatia certainly didn’t beat around the bush, either.
She visited a sweet shop and was shocked by the amount she was charged. In the Robbed in Croatia Tiktok video, she explained how she was delighted with the selection of sweets on offer and decided to buy several bags.
27 euro sweets
“If he’d told me at the cash register that I needed to pay in cash, I wouldn’t have come back,” said the TikTok creator from Australia, who was shocked when she found out “how much sweets cost in Croatia”, reports net.hr.
She describes going to the cash register without knowing how much the sweets would cost. In the end she paid 27 euros. The price for 100 grams was 6 euros. The seller told her that she could only pay in cash, but she didn’t have it with me. She then talks about how if he told her she needed to go and withdraw it, she simply wouldn’t come back because 27 euros is too costly for a bag of sweets. She says however that she managed to pay using her card and that “she can laugh about it now”.
the robbed in croatia tiktok video isn’t a good look, but it’s also blown (massively) out of proportion
We all know that buying a pack of Kiki sweets at a small Konzum doesn’t cost 27 euros. It doesn’t come even close to such a price. Be it the divisive Bananko or something from Dorina, you’re unlikely to find yourself forking out even close to the price of a Ryanair bag-less flight. So what gives?
The Robbed in Croatia TikTok video had been viewed by more than 150,000 people at the time of writing, and many Croats expressed their understanding of this situation in the comments. Then it became clear exactly what sort of shop she had purchased these apparently diamond-encrusted tooth rotters from. If you’ve spent any time in Dubrovnik, Hvar or Split, you’ll know exactly the dreaded places I’m talking about. The sweets are kept in an open state, in large wooden barrels, and the theme of the location usually involved parrots, pirates and old wooden sloops.
“It’s true, in cities like Hvar, Split or Dubrovnik, tourists are often charged high prices”, “I would never buy sweets that are left open all day”, “You should have asked for the price before you took them”, “Such sweets shops are expensive all over Europe, you could have guessed that”, were some of the comments.
While some Croats couldn’t wait for another chance to speak ill about Croatian prices (which is more than understandable currently and has been for some time), others let the Australian know that us Europeans avoid sweet shops like that for a reason, and that they’re extortionate wherever they’re located, in Croatia or not.
Next time you’re here, Ashleigh, buy them at a Tisak kiosk!
