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f64club May 6th, 2003 09:05 AM

Small Fee?
 
Alice Twain wrote under the heading of "restrooms" that bars are obligated to let you use their restroom but may charge a small fee, 20-30 Euros. Are Euro "cents" shown differently than Euro "dollars"? Right now $1 = .88 Euros. Wouldn't that meant that it would cost about $17 to use the restroom? I ask this because I was curious about people who say that has lunch for 75 Euros. Sounds awfully expensive.

Christina May 6th, 2003 09:16 AM

If that's exactly how she wrote it, the problem is that the comma goes with the price, it's not a punctuation mark. At least I would presume, that's the way it is in France, although to be clear you usually see it with a zero in front of the comma.
This is 15 euro cents:

0,15 ?

I have also seen it just written as I did above "15 euro cents"


Christina May 6th, 2003 09:17 AM

um, that question mark was a euro symbol originally, Fodors won't allow some characters

StCirq May 6th, 2003 09:18 AM

First of all, there are no "Euro dollars." They're euros, period (and Europeans may rightfully be offended if you refer to them as Euro dollars). There are 100 "cents" in a euro. I didn't read the post, but if Alice Twain said there would be a fee of 20-30 euros, surely she meant 20-30 cents. Finally, if $1.00 = .88 euros, and the cost to use a European bathroom were 20 cents, the cost to you in dollars would be about 22 1/2 cents (pennies), not $17!!

Xenos May 6th, 2003 09:25 AM

Alice did actually apologise further down the thread and say that she had meant cents.

Curious May 6th, 2003 09:26 AM

f64club,

If you would read the entire post, Alice Twain reposted with the correct explanation. It's eurocents.

Curious

Bob_C May 6th, 2003 03:55 PM

For the most part I like having to pay. I have found for example in Paris when I paid I got a very clean restroom. We have had to pay over most of Europe.

f64club May 7th, 2003 08:39 AM

Thanks to everyone for clarifying this (although some were a little more hostile than others, I got the idea). I was mostly curious about how I (having never traveled to Europe) would know whether the writer meant Euros or Euro cents when pricing something.


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