Expensive!

[Caran]

Staying in a very plush hotel near Kenilworth. Had a drink before dinner.
White wine and soda and a pint of beer. £11 and that was with a 20% off voucher.
Cheapest bottle of white wine was £23. Good job we always take our own wine for in the bedroom.

[jno]

pressing your own grapes in the bathroom? :-)

[Caran]

You got it jno!

[Baldric]

Sharing a tooth mug can be a real pain :o)

[douglas9401]

Highway robbery, really taking the plush. :)

[Barmaid]

That's a bargain! I was stuck in london a few weeks back (no trains, friday chaos). Large glass of pinot = £9.

[Caran]

Some of the wines were also £9 a glass but not large ones.

[Barmaid]

You can pay ridiculous money for wine. This was the cheapest wine on offer (bar the house which i had had before and it was awful warm cheap chardonnay). Whats really shocking is i can remember me and my mate finishing college and then going for a quick bottle of wine. A fiver. in london. I feel old

[Buenchico]

That doesn't sound particularly expensive to me. A glass of decent white wine in my Sunday evening boozer (Greene King) typically costs around £5.50. I often drink one of their premium lagers at around £4.50 per pint, so that would be a tenner for the two (which isn't that much cheaper than the £11 you paid).

More usually though I drink the bottled Camden Pale at £4.40 for 330ml, which is equivalent to £7.57 per pint. However if I drink it in a London pub it's usually £6.20 for a bottle, equivalent to £10.67 per pint. (So you were getting a pint of beer AND a glass of wine for roughly what I pay for a pint of beer in London).

If I drink in a wine bar (or a decent pub, with the sort of wine which nobody should ever put soda in) I expect to pay between £20 and £25 for their cheapest bottles of wine.

[Caran]

But we had 20% off, so without the discount it came to £13.75.
I object to paying high prices like this when I can buy a bottle in Lidl for £4.

[Barmaid]

But the overheads are greater! Of course we can do everything cheaper at home!

[Caran]

I know Barmaid, but it still niggles.

[googleplexian123]

Was the wine chilled along with the soda?

[Caran]

Yes it was quite cold.

[anneasquith]

If you are staying in a plush hotel can't expect old boozer prices ?

[ummmm]

Surely they had a price list?

[murraymints]

bar in Central Edinburgh last week of festival..charging £23 for a large GLASS of wine ! not even a bottle !

[Caran]

That's terrible Minty!

[AuntLydia]

Couple of months ago in Whitby of all places: Half a pint of cider and small gin & tonic £ 12.

[LadyCG]

I've just been to a café where a sandwich was priced up at £12.

The other night I had a double Cornish gin with the dinkiest bottle of tonic you've ever seen. It was just too strong for my tastes. OH went and bought me a mini bottle of prosecco to water it down. That drink set him back £16.

I don't blame you for taking your own wine for the room. I always do.

[-Talbot-]

I object to paying high prices like this when I can buy a bottle in Lidl for £4


The downside though as I have found out to my cost... is that the atmosphere in Lidl isn't that great and eventually they throw you out.