Two tourists bit off more than they could chew after they tried to skip the bill for their Christmas dinner.

Kelly Yawgel and Samantha Salafia, both 25, left the Huckleberry restaurant at the Rosedon Hotel in Pembroke without settling their $198 bill, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.

However, the meal ended up costing them almost $600 each after the pair pleaded guilty to failure to pay their bill.

Magistrate Craig Attridge fined Yawgel, from New York, and Salafia, from Connecticut, $500 each — and also ordered them to split the unpaid bill.

The court heard that the pair left the restaurant without paying, but management followed them to the nearby Hamilton Princess hotel, where the two were staying, and confronted them.

The two asked to see the bill, which was still at the restaurant, but when the Huckleberry manager returned the women could not be found.

The manager contacted police who arrested the women after they checked Hamilton Princess CCTV footage.

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