‘Nothing Is As Nice As Finding Paradise And Sitting In The Summer Sun’ says the lyrics of a popular song by Groove Connection and you cannot deny that it is highly relatable. Whether you want to simply sunbathe or dine out in the sun, it is a pleasurable experience, especially in locations that have a cold climate. Like the air around us, sunlight is one of the resources that is deemed free in the sense that you need not spend a dime to enjoy it. But such is not the case in Seville in Northern Spain where restaurants have a hidden charge they levy on you.
Visitors in restaurants in Seville were baffled by a ‘sunlight fee’ that is charged by the restaurants. Since Spain has a cold climate, many customers express their desire to dine in the sunlight and many tables are placed directly under the sun as well. However, to sit by those tables and eat, the restaurant will charge you £8.50 i.e. Rs 897. This hidden charge has left the customers fuming and has led to low ratings of many such restaurants.
Many tables in the sunlight are left vacant in these restaurants as customers are not ready to pay the charge. Interestingly, it is not just tourists but also locals who have protested against this charge.
It is surprising to know that this is not the first and only time that restaurants in cities of Spain have levied such absurd charges on their customers. Some of them will leave you baffled.
A bar in Zamora charged guests every time their waiter went to their table – as well as for using cutlery., things that are universally free of charge. A tourist had to pay £17 or Rs 1794 just for cutting her birthday cake in a restaurant. Another restaurant in Barcelona gained notoriety after it turned away a woman who wanted to dine alone all by herself.
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