(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 14 – A sting is coming on Italian beaches. This was stated by Codacons, which denounces how the high bills and skyrocketing inflation will make the sea particularly “salty” this year.
With the opening of the summer season, many bathing establishments have made changes to their price lists by applying price increases to the public for numerous goods and services, and further price increases are expected between now and August – explains Codacons – We start with the daily rates. for umbrellas, sunbeds and deck chairs, which recorded average increases of +4% / + 5% with peaks of + 10% compared to last year.
To rent an umbrella and two sunbeds during the weekend, in an average establishment, you spend between 25 and 30 euros per day, an amount that rises to 100 euros in the higher-level structures – analyzes the Codacons – For the monthly pass the rates vary between 500 and 700 euros, while for the seasonal one the price varies between 1,500 and 2,200 euros, depending on the area of Italy and the facilities.
But, the Codacons warns, it will also cost more to consume food and drinks at the beaches, with average increases of + 10% on 2021 which will fall not only on the menus of the beach restaurants but also on mineral water, fruit juices, beers, ice creams.
Not even coffee will be exempt from the increases.
To these items of expenditure is added the expensive fuel: gasoline costs 14% more today than in the same period last year, and even diesel fuel + 26.5%.
Considering the transport, the rent of 1 umbrella and 2 sunbeds, the drinks (sandwiches, water, ice cream, coffee) and the parking, a family spends an average of 97 euros this year for a day at the beach, with an increase of +12 % on 2021.
“After the price increases practiced in the last two years by bathing establishments and motivated by the costs of sanitation and distancing on the beach imposed by Covid, it is the turn of expensive bills and inflation – explains the president Carlo Rienzi – The managers of the beaches they are unable to sustain the increases in energy costs and the rise in retail prices, and they pass on to the final consumers “.
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Source: Ansa
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