The city's most infamous rip-off joint has yet again changed its name, this time to Līvu krodziņš. When this place was known as Groks, it was the most notorious perpetrator of tourist scams in Latvia. After
Riga In Your Pocket and its readers brought this to the attention of the local media, it soon shut its doors. To our horror and dismay it was re-opened as Lord Pub, but police raids, bad press and your comments once again made them change their name to Royal Pub and now Līvu krodziņš. Don't even look at this place! Just run away!
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I was recently in Krakow heading back to my hotle late at night. In the market square two pretty girls approached me and suggested I go with then to a local bar. I was weary and not intoxicated but decided to chance it and fancied some company. I don't know for sure what bar it was but looks like the chinese style place on Tomasza (using google street view). It had two wooden framed glass doors. Inside we were (surprisingly)the only three present. A burly guy washing glasses behing bar and female waitress. the girls ordered three cocktails then we were asked for 460 Zt. The girls were about to pay half but I smelled a scam. Since I had already taken a 'sip' I need to escape pretty quick. I stood up and threw 10 Zt on the table and swiftly made it back out onto the street. It was a lucky escape . I just want more tourists to be awre of this trick.
Another sad story happened to me lost my friends ended up in a bar where they charged my visa lost a total amount of over 1000eurosbe aware!!!!!
Well all of this definitely is true. Luckily there are still many places (i mean clubs pubs bars) in Riga's Old city. When visiting Riga's old city you should ask for such places like "Domu laukums" "Livu laukums" cuz there are many open-air bars with live music you should also visit LIDO De puta madre bar etc.. There are soo many pubs there (without sluts that just want to suck your money out of you).Even regular disco clubs like RA Essential PUSH etc. don't have such high prices)Riga is still a good city. You just have to know the right places ! Good luck!
Manhattan, sorry but that's nonsense. So people deserve to be robbed because they go to Latvia to have a good time? What a bad attitude you have. Price of a bottle of wine in a normal bar in Riga will start from 11 lats, usually 16-20 for wine of okay quality. Lord pub cheats tourists by charging them 150 lats!
Once I worked in the ''Lord Pub'' asd ADMIN, and I can tell you, guys, if somebody was kicked, than ONLY because was total drunk or have touched or tried to hit the girls! Nr 1! And if you´re going to some other country and having no idea about it, why do you never ask the menu card? Just to show how cool you are? Which idiot don´t look the prices? Are you going to buy a TV without looking on price? Even a bottle of wine in a simple bar can cost more that you have in your pocket! And everybody knows that Latvia is corrupt. If somebody goes there to see the country, he´s not going around at night total drunken and not searching for the adventures! But when you go there for get a hot experiences - they will get you same! If you are going to LV just because of prostitutes or partys, for pissing on our monument of liberty and puke in the bars and on the street, you have deserved to be rubbed. But if you have a respect of yourselves and of this country, you are welcome. In all this Bars once (2 years ago) works 1 presept - Don´t rub from a normal persons who respect you. But if somebody offend you or our home - take the last, because he have deserved it. And even if I think that this is a dirty, sad and very bad business, the founders are making a lot of money for LV on you, disrespecktful people!
Hi, I recommend to all not to Saxon bar. A friend of mine was asked to pay €1300 for just one drink. Obviously, he hadn't got all the money with him, he only got €400. When he began to protest against the esagerated bill, he was beaten up by four bouncers. He got a serious head injury. When he went to the police they told him to go back with them to the club or they can do nothing. Incredible.
I think you all are stupid, because every place, where you go, you must to ask before price list. Why you cry now? This is your experience. This problem have in many states in the world. So, be more smart.
Recently been to Poland Krackow. I had a very bad experience in the Saxon bar, if only I had read this page first!I was charged extortionate amounts for drinks totaling £1400. Unfortunately my bank cant help me so I'm left with paying the full amount.Although the bar is not run by the Polish there was an awful lot of annymosity between the Polish and some tourists, not suprsing when a large amount are on stag party's.To anyone going over there with a view of experiencing the night life bewarned..
Im traveling to riga tomorrow with couple my friends.. Im looking forward to it... lol
i am absolutly terrorfied to be quite honest after reading these reviews and am due to arrive in riga for a week on a college trip. most of my class have read the reviews and we are pretty worried but intending to go for studying and historical sight seeing . still the thought of these gypsys treating tourists like this is unreal.i shall post a review on my return , hopefully it wont be as terrorfying as the rest.
carry a gun and sh**t the mother f**kers, i will go to riga next week and try this dump..
I agree with Andis. It`s not like anyone forced you to go to these clubs/bars and buy something. You did it yourself! If you want to order the cheapest champaign, then do so, but if you don`t then do not arrgue for ordering the most expensive.We have nice people here too, just don`t follow sluts you see on streets. Try for example club Essential. It has it`s issues with drugging people sometimes, but it`s much safer than La Rocca or Babylon.
Oh my god, cant believe this. Me and 3 friends were in Krakow Poland and we got scammed by 3 girls - they took us to a bar near the Rynek (main square) called SAXONS - tried to get 2,000 polish money for 3 drinks.We called police - ended up paying for our 3 drinks 180 and managed to get out alive..Look out for Lithuanian Girls in Krakow Poland and DONT GO TO SAXONS BAR - IN ul. sw. Tomasza
Just got back from a weekend in Riga and I can believe all the stories, although luckily none of us got scammed as badly as that. Might have helped that there were 10 of us - I wouldn't have fancied my chances if there were just one or two of us.We had heard some worrying stories before going and so were very careful when going into bars or if any girls came to sit with us and made sure we were very clear if any extortionate prices were involved. We still got charged a few rounds of 20 or 30 LATS per drink - which is ludicrous for anywhere let alone a regular bar in Riga - but thankfully none of the absolutely enormous prices some people here have been stung for. I ended up spending 450 LATS in restaurants, clubs and bars in just 2 nights - and, before you ask, that wasn't on strippers or prostitutes! I'd only expected to spend about 150 LATS.One local girl I was chatting to suggested a "water pipe" - i.e. the middle eastern things for smoking tobacco - and the price was going to be 50 LATS. I just laughed and said no way and that you probably wouldn't pay more than 5 or 10 LATS in London for the same thing. But they accepted that rather than trying to make me pay anyway.Riga was a lovely place in many ways (the beach down at Jurmala was great and Old Riga is beautiful) but the tourist rip offs make it far too expensive to return - I wouldn't go again. I've no idea why it's so popular for stag parties (we were a stag party but a reasonably mature and sedate party) as with transport and accomodation, we spent about GBP 800 each - for a weekend - I've never spent so much! And I've been on lots of similar weekend breaks to cities across Europe, including the ones you expect to be expensive.
not sure if it's completely dead - it was closed today, but it's now called 'Royal'