Most expensive pint / spirit w/mixer you've ever paid?

[WCZ]

Just back from Paris, paid 11 euros for a pint of Henieken and 16 euros for a vodka with coke(a-cola)!

These wern't in nightclubs or directly beneath the Eifle tower either, just Brasserie/cafe type places littered around the city.

Spent an absolute fortune there!

What's the most you've ever paid?

[Melman Giraffe]

Hong Kong

Guiness £15

Tasted great

[LouD86]

Thats high! Most I paid was in Tiger Tiger in Gunwharf. I volunteered a round of drinks (never again), and a JD & Coke, Vodka & Cranberry, and a bottle of Bud was £29. That made me queasy alone!

[RSoovy4]

Double vodka and orange in Oslo.

£34.

[Bullett]

Glass of Fizz
Gin and Tonic
Champagne Cocktail

£55

Claridges Bar

[WCZ]

RSoovy4 said:

Double vodka and orange in Oslo.

£34.

can't see anyone being able to beat that!

[dazco]

I once bought an unusual looking lady a 'piccolo' in a bar on the Reeperbahn.

150dm (£50) in 1986

[JuanGandini]

Paris is an absolute joke - a smallish glass of coke cost me 8 Euros a couple of years ago. We decided to drink tap water on that holiday after we realised!

[WCZ]

JuanGandini said:

Paris is an absolute joke - a smallish glass of coke cost me 8 Euros a couple of years ago. We decided to drink tap water on that holiday after we realised!

It is very expensive, though cigarettes are cheaper!

Another annoyance was a very terrible chinese meal for what would of been a very high quality chinese meal in england price

I wonder what people strapped for cash do when they fly there on Easyjet for £40 to find out the first round of drinks exceeds the flight cost!

[Mr Roper]

RSoovy4 said:

Double vodka and orange in Oslo.

£34.

st!

Did that include admission?

eta

I bought a bottle of domestic lager and a single whiskey in a hotel in Japan that came to £25'ish. I was mortified. Shouldn't moan too much as all the tabs that week were picked up by our supplier.....Oh and a work dinner thing at the Grovesnor W1 was £7 for a bottle of bud 6 years back.

When you live in the sticks of Wales it comes as a bit of shock.

Edited by Mr Roper on Tuesday 19th March 12:24

[RSoovy4]

Mr Roper said:

RSoovy4 said:

Double vodka and orange in Oslo.

£34.

st!

Did that include admission?

No!

Booze is massively expensive there - was in a hotel bar.

[aizvara]

Stupid amount on a measure of Highland Park 18 Y.O. in an average restaurant in ruralish Sweden. Think it was of the order of £15.

Similar amount on a bottle of Sapporo at the bar at top of the Shinigawa Prince hotel. Worth it for the view.

[BrabusMog]

9eur for a half pint to Peroni in Positano. Although we were looking out across the sea, not sat in some smelly, Parisien back alley.

[JuanGandini]

I just remembered a work colleague talking a few weeks ago about some crazily expensive place in Courcheval that he'd just come back from. He bought a burger for lunch. It cost him 34 Euros.

[5potTurbo]

Melman Giraffe said:

Hong Kong

Guiness £15

Tasted great

Where in HK did that cost you £15?
I've never paid that much for Guinness in HK.


As for buying "picolos" in the Reeperbahn, you should have known better!

[Dave200]

5potTurbo said:

Melman Giraffe said:

Hong Kong

Guiness £15

Tasted great

Where in HK did that cost you £15?
I've never paid that much for Guinness in HK.

That seems ridiculously expensive... I don't even remember the Peninsula being that bad to drink in!

[Lefty]

I've spent a lot of time in Norway but, funnily enough, avoid buying booze!

Most I've paid (my money!) is £225 for a dram of a very special Macallan. That was in Aberdeen.

Most expensive I've tried is £5k/bottle from Glenglassaugh. If any of that ever reaches a bar it will probably be ~£500-£1000 per measure...!

[sgrimshaw]

OK, it's a cocktail but FFS !!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2217984/...

[OzzyR1]

£27 for 3nr 330ml bottles of Budvar in The Light Bar, (St Martin's Lane one not Shoreditch).

It would work out about £16/pint I think.

This was in 2001 - was very close to handing them back and leaving.

[anonymous-user]

Geneva prices are ridiculous but I'm fairly used to them now (£7-8/pint is average in a pub). Even so, I occasionally get a massive shock. Went for a quiet drink with a friend and he was having a scotch so I just said ill have the same as you... 43chf 20ml. fk, I don't even really like scotch that much but it was a whiskey bar. Also one sticks out in the mind as being a rip ordered a corona in a club, came to pay... "30chf please" WHAT?!

Latest one was 400chf for a litre of absolut vodka (same as you get in the offy for £12). Joke.