British tourists charged £54 for just FOUR ice creams in Rome café reigniting row about locals profiteering from holidaymakers Roger Bannister, brother Steven, and wives ordered four cones They cost a staggering 16 euros a piece Reignited a row in country about tourists being 'ripped off' by businesses A group of British tourists were stunned when they were charged the equivalent of £54 for just four ice creams in Rome It is a situation many holiday makers have found themselves in. Blindly handing over wads of unfamiliar foreign notes, only to realise after a furious few minutes with a calculator you may have paid massively over the odds. But a group of British tourists were stunned when they were charged the equivalent of £54 for just four ice creams in Rome. Holidaymakers Roger Bannister, his brother Steven and their wives Wendy and Joyce ordered four cones of gelato from an ice cream bar at the top of Via della Vite, just off Piazza di Spagna. It has reignited a row in the country about tourists being 'ripped off' by local businesses. The group said they ordered four cones 'with two wafers and three flavours' costing a staggering 16 euros each. The entire round cost 64 euros. Speaking to Corriere Della Serra, Roger said: 'We weren't sitting at a table...We bought the ice creams to eat in the street.' The Telegraph reports. Mr Bannister, who was on a six- day holiday to Italy with the group, claimed that after paying that the staff had not even said 'thanks.' Managers at the bar told the newspaper that the ice creams price was justified as they were large portions. They said the group had not been forced into paying and that they also had options which only cost 2.50 euros, with prices very clearly displayed around the shop. But city councillor Matteo Costantini said it was not the first time that these things had happened. In 2009, two Japanese tourists were handed a bill for €695 at the Passetto restaurant, leading the mayor of Rome to call for its closure. Holidaymakers Roger Bannister, his brother Steven and their wives Wendy and Joyce ordered four cones of gelato from an ice cream bar at the top of Via della Vite, just off Piazza di Spagna