Magically inflated-prices kingdom: tourists stung by cost of refreshments outside Shanghai Disneyland
The few shops already operating in the tourist district outside the theme park, which opens next month, were charging up to five times the normal price for drinks and snacks during the holiday weekend
Tens of thousands of tourists who flocked to the soon-to-open Shanghai Disneyland on the Labour Day holiday found themselves paying five times the regular price for a can of soft drink outside the theme park.
The Shanghai Disney metro station was expecting a daily average of more than 12,000 tourists over the three-day holiday.
But on Saturday, the first day of the holiday, the station counted 40,000 passengers by 1pm, Shanghai-based news website Thepaper.cn reported.
While most shops were yet to open in the new tourist district outside the gates, barricades had been erected to manage the a heavy tourist flow.
But it is was the inflated prices of snacks and drinks that caused the most grumbles among the visitors.