stupidly expensive bar bill

[alecstilleyedye]

yesterday I was at my wife's sister-in-laws 40th at a not especially posh bar in manchester.

the cost of 1 small bottle of peroni beer and two glasses of wine was £20.35

anyone else got a similar story of stupidly overpriced stuff?

 

[BrianEvesham]

Madness!

 

[oldfatfool]

Try buying a coffee and slice of cake in St Mark's Square and you will realize you got a bargain

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i remember paying a similar amount for two beers and a bag of crisps in the piazza san marco, but then i was on honeymoon in venice, not in a function room in manchester...

 

[addictfreak]

A couple of weeks ago on Capri I paid £16 for two small beers!

 

[oldfatfool]

i remember paying a similar amount for two beers and a bag of crisps in the piazza san marco, but then i was on honeymoon in venice, not in a function room in manchester...

Very similar locations really, ever present whiff of sewage, can't understand a word most people are saying, mind you Manchester is less likely to sink...........

 

[ianrauk]

I work in Cannes, France for one week a year in January for a music biz festival. Order a beer or a coffee in one of the top hotels along the sea front, The Carlton, Majestic, Martinez etc...you wont get much change out of a tenner.

 

[Piemaster]

Any bar in Norway.
Even when I was there several years ago, bought 3 rum and cokes. Had to hand over the credit card as the £30 I had in cash wasn't enough.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

£12.75 for a pint and a large glass of wine, in a town centre pub, in a town in Sussex.

When it was her round she bought much cheaper wine!

I had to go to Geneva for work once early last year. The host of the meeting insisted we went to his favourite bar in a nice hotel which, funnily enough, I've stayed in before, in another life at someone else's considerable expense. Very nice it is too. I bought a round, three drinks, got no change from £50. Didn't buy a second round.

Didn't claim it on expenses. Wouldn't have been allowed. I wrote the expenses policy.

 

[ayceejay]

Once upon a time in Greece there were no fixed prices in bars, I sat at a table and a woman came and sat across from me, I ordered a beer and the guy came back with two beers one for me and one for her. He said "Two beers 10 drachma," I said "I only want one, I have no idea who this woman is" then he said "Okay, one beer 10 drachma."

 

[SpokeyDokey]

yesterday I was at my wife's sister-in-laws 40th at a not especially posh bar in manchester.

the cost of 1 small bottle of peroni beer and two glasses of wine was £20.35

anyone else got a similar story of stupidly overpriced stuff?

Hard to say if it really is overpriced - end of the day it was purchased so maybe they have their pricing spot-on or possibly underpriced.

 

[MontyVeda]

yesterday I was at my wife's sister-in-laws 40th at a not especially posh bar in manchester.

the cost of 1 small bottle of peroni beer and two glasses of wine was £20.35

anyone else got a similar story of stupidly overpriced stuff?

Oscars Bar, Lancaster...

1 pint of lager (Indian brand, can't remember name)
2 x vodka & coke

£16.05

fortunately my round was in the previous pub

Some rooftop bar in the Meatpacking district of Manhatten

2 pints of lager
1 glass of wine

£28

unfortunately... it was my round.

 

[fossala]

I can't really afford to drink in pubs. Well I could but I have better ways to spend 100quid in a night.

 

[MontyVeda]

I can't really afford to drink in pubs. Well I could but I have better ways to spend 100quid in a night.

they are expensive these days... average for a decent pint of lager is £3.30 - £3.80 up here... I expect they get more pricey further south (??)

 

[numbnuts]

I'm glad I don't drink