HIGH/LOW prices. What have you seen, what have you bought?

[Vitorio]

The highest i can think of isnt that ridiculous, but it's ten years ago, so some inflation has to be taken into account: 5 euros for a can of iced tea on the colloseum square in Rome

Low prices: .12 and .10 euros in india, for two breakfast bunns and a newspaper respectively

[airbrakes]

I never got how Spar and Emerge energy drinks can be 25p a can when Red Bull is about £1.50

[Kenty]

Bar of soap, 12 dingbats from the adjoining country and 20 cigarettes in Abidjan
$80 for 10 minutes in Singapore

a few years ago now mind!!!!

[Jasandjules]

I can't recall what I paid for a Vodka and Orange and a glass of coke in the Ritz. But I nearly feckin' fainted.

Also paid £3.50 for a small cup of hot water - had to buy a "tea" without the tea-bag.

[CharlieCrocodile]

£9 for a chocolate eclair in the Godiva Chocolate Bar, Harrods.

It was worth every penny!

[Jayyylo]

At uni (not long ago, and I believe prices are still current) we had a club that was always 50p pints and £2.50 for a quad shot + mixer.

[grumpy52]

spirits were so cheap in the sgts mess in Germany you could only buy doubles

[Spydaman]

£120 for a bottle of red wine in a restaurent at Huntington Beach, Calif. I mis-read the menu and thought is was the equivalent of £10. I thought it was odd when the somelier came and told me all about the wine whilst making a big fuss about opening the bottle. It wasn't even that good. Fortunately expenses paid for it.

[lufbramatt]

When my OH was living in East Germany for uni in 2007 we used to get 500ml bottle of decent beer for the equivalent of 35p. 6 months later when she was in Switzerland a 300ml bottle was £4.

[long time lurker]

Using my phone currency convertor I found it was £6 for a bottle of beer at a bar in Prague airport, the vodka was about £10 a shot! (I decided to go duty free and got a 6 pack of local brew for about £5!)

cheapest was in Ukraine where 4 beers and a 3 course meal for 2 was less than £10 in total

[Tuvra]

airbrakes said:

I never got how Spar and Emerge energy drinks can be 25p a can when Red Bull is about £1.50

Emerge is under 17p a can in Costco!

[Mobsta]

Tuvra said:

airbrakes said:

I never got how Spar and Emerge energy drinks can be 25p a can when Red Bull is about £1.50

Emerge is under 17p a can in Costco!

Its usually
a) To cover the cost of advertising
b) An advertised brand carries a premium which people are willing to pay for.

Paracetamol is a good example.
Some branded products containing paracetamol cost a couple of quid.
Tesco's own brand (contains the same amount of the same drug) costs about 30p.

[S10GTA]

£7.50 for a coke in a casino in the Alps last Winter

[PineBarren]

20 Swiss francs (14 quid at the time)for a bowl of tomato soup with a crouton whilst skiing in Verbier. Cheapest thing on the menu too. Needless to say I made Jambon et Fromage baguettes for my lunch for the remainder of my holiday

[roboxm3]

During my "stint" at uni (too) many years ago (I call it a stint as I only did a year - I didn't like it. I did however like the following) we went to a night in Soho called Cheapskates.
I don't recall the name of the establishment but it was under an Italian restaurant and £5 to get in.
I ordered the first round of JD & Cokes for a mate and myself and was asked, by the barman, for the princely sum of eighty English pence...8-0...80p. I remember aiming for 50 drinks, getting to 30, patchy flashbacks of the night bus home and woke up to a squashed bin and a hangover ranking in my top 3 of all time hangovers.

Many years later I went on a stag do to Stockholm where (in the clubs) a bottle of beer was £8 and a JD & Coke (you'd think I'd be put off / learn) was about £13.

[tonyvid]

I spent loads of time in Swedish Lapland over the past 2 years - where do you want me to start?

For instance - 2 carrier bags of stuff like biscuits, apples and soft drinks...£68

Petrol was about the same as here, read into that what you will!

[5pen]

Geneva airport.

Supermarket next to terminal a 750ml bottle of water was the equivalent of about £1. Air-side the same thing was about £6.

[PumpkinSteve]

Five hot dogs from Ikea = £3.25.

Ignorance is the best policy if you're wondering what they're made from. They taste nice, that's all that counts.

[ollie j]

Malawi, bottle of Coke for 50 Kwacha. At the time, it was 12p (couple of years ago). Thanks to new president Joyce Banda who has devalued their currency by over 25%, it is now 9p



Big (660ml approx) bottle of beer in Uganda for 30p were pretty good too.

[Issi]

Pint of Chang in Molly Malone's in Bangkok, surrounded by fat sweaty ex pats watching football - £3.50.

Can of (stronger) Chang bought in the 7/11 next door and consumed while wandering around the bonkers night market and its environs- 65p.