How Expensive is Europe !!!!!!

[sone]

Just come back of a short skiing break in Italy and while I know it's always been expensive it just seems to have become ridiculous. The best price we could buy a pint of beer for was five Euro's the worst nine. A croissant on the mountain with a cup of coffee eight quid. I know the Euro is almost on Parity with the pound but the Europeans just seem to be taking the piss.
I pity the Economy of the usual summer holiday venues like Greece and Spain because the Brits are going to stay away. There were eight of us in our party all blokes and not one of us had booked a foreign holiday this summer, not because of the recession but because of the feeling that the Europeans are just taking the piss right royally.
If Italy was expensive one of our party skied France two weeks ago and said it was even worse. Rhyl here we come this summer.

Or am I just getting old?.

Edited by sone on Monday 9th March 22:24

[sone]

B52er said:

ukwill said:

raharley said:

Europe is really no more expensive than most of the UK. London prices are comparable to Paris, I'd imagine. Southern France, in the holiday hotspots, is like Devon/Cornwall. In the rural areas it's very reasonable to most things - beer, shopping, gifts, days out etc etc. My parents go there a lot and holiday on a budget all the time..

Paris is currently the most expensive City in the world, outside Japan (Tokyo and Osaka are 1st/2nd).

Southern France priced like Devon/Cornwall?


FWIW, London is 27th (down from 8th 6mths ago)

HAHAHA yeah don't know what part of Devon and Cornwall you've been going to, but they sure as hell aint as expensive as southern France, especially the riviera!!

i'm not sure its the Europeans taking the piss, its just the exchange rates that are causing it.... my parents live there and over xmas paying 96 quid for every 100 euro rather than the 75 quid is used to be was massively painful.

The point is that prices were getting daft in the Eurozone even last year, I was in Greece and the drinks were silly expensive then. A pint of the local beer,vodka and a mixer and a soft drink, over here I would expect to pay no more than £8 in Greece each round was 13ish equivalent. All the usual gift shops were empty and at the end of the week had a 50% sale (so you could say taking the piss). All this was before the pound crashed.
They have got greedy and this year they will pay for it, conversely British resorts will do well no doubt.