stupidly expensive bar bill

[Hill Wimp]

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?

I don't even pay that in central London.

 

[Piemaster]

I wasn't aware you could actually buy lager in the south. Thought the only thing available was shandy.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I wasn't aware you could actually buy lager in the south. Thought the only thing available was shandy.

Peroni is bottled and Italian. As we are closer to Italy transportation costs are cheaper.

 

[ColinJ]

If people are prepared to pay those prices, then there will always be people happy to charge them!

Even if I were incredibly well off, I would not pay those prices.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

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 (??)

Cask brown or black beer is £4.00 - £4.20 a pint in my local. Would expect fizzy yellow beer to be in the same price bracket there but never drink it so can't say for sure. May report back later this evening after further research.

EDIT: My local is not actually my local. My local local is three doors down and on the left. My local is 500metres away on the right. My local local is a Beefeater. My local local is sh|te. There's another pub which is localish. Only 400m or so as the crow flies but I'm not a crow and there is a railway line to cross and the days when the station staff would let you use the station footbridge to get there are long gone. But the beer in the localish is even more expensive than in the local so I tend not to bother, unless the rugby is on in the localish when I do. The local has no screens or games machines or piped music. I think I may go to the pub too much. Possibly.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

as it was a family do it wasn't as if we could go elsewhere, so I think they had a captive audience and priced accordingly.

I'm not convinced it's not poor form to book such a place knowing friends and family, who may not be as well off, have to pay through the nose at the bar...

 

[Pennine-Paul]

A work colleague went to see the end of the tour de france and had 3 beers and a coke
on the champs elysses,she had to pay 55 euros!

 

[MontyVeda]

as it was a family do it wasn't as if we could go elsewhere, so I think they had a captive audience and priced accordingly.

I'm not convinced it's not poor form to book such a place knowing friends and family, who may not be as well off, have to pay through the nose at the bar...

Completely agree.

Fortunately my family are mostly just as tight fisted as i am... so family do's are mostly held in the function room of one of the many working men's clubs Dad is a member of. So the other week, after my Gt Nephew's christening, the bar order went something like this...

2 pints of Stella
double vodka and coke
double bacardi and coke
orange juice
pint of John Smiths

"That'll be two and six."



OK, maybe not 'two and six', but i did get change out of a tenner.

 

[gaz]

Peroni is bottled and Italian. As we are closer to Italy transportation costs are cheaper.

Peroni also comes on tap.

 

[ThinAir]

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?

I remember a friend of mine being in front of me at the bar, in similar circumstances, and buying a similar round...

There was a terribly middle class student barman, who asked said mate for the money for the order, and then had a priceless look on his face when his request for money was met with with the words (in a heavy, drunken, Wigan accent) "Bloody hell, lad. I'd have worn lipstick if I'd known I was going to get 4ked". Genius.

But in all seriousness... That's extortionate.

 

[dan_bo]

You should have dragged 'em over to mother macs- you would have had change from a fiver.... And plenty of 'entertainment' to boot.

 

[Rezillo]

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...

Yep, we paid a tenner for two coffees there a couple of years ago but we were left to ourselves for 90 minutes, free to watch the world go by, in one of the most famous spots in the world. We were close but not too close to a string quartet, and got some water for free from the impeccably polite staff. Turned out to be a bit of a bargain experience.

A few years back we got given some "cheap" tourist vouchers for coffee in the square. This was a much worse experience because it wasn't cheap and the tourist company took a cut from the price. With nothing much in it for the cafe, the service was less forthcoming.

 

[Brandane]

It was a long time ago and I can't remember the exact prices; but the Casino at Monte Carlo was reassuringly expensive. Eye-wateringly extortionate more like. There were four of us, and two had soft drinks. The other two drinks were beers IIRC, and the bill was somewhere about £25 ..... in 1990 . We were there on a day trip (from Glasgow!) and the return flights had been a bargain on some holiday airline trying to fill their under utilised planes during February.

 

[lukesdad]

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 (??)

10 bob here

 

[livpoksoc]

This missus paid £4.80 for a loaf of bread & a bottle of water yesterday!

Warwick services for you...next time we definitely stop at the tesco on the way to the house