Posted on 04/03/2007 12:49:15 PM PDT by lizol
Guinness is cheapest in Prague!
Monday, April 2, 2007
A pint of Guinness is cheaper in Prague than Dublin, Budapest is the city to go for a bargain Big Mac and the price of a cappuccino will have coffee fans frothing in Rome.
But London, often condemned as an expensive place to stay, compares favourably with supposedly cheaper tourist destinations.
Prague is the cheapest place to enjoy a short break, with typical total costs of just £203.89.
In the Czech capital, you can find a Big Mac at £1.52, a typical threecourse meal at £6.64 and a coffee £1.11.
A pint of Guinness there costs just £2.34, compared with £3.14 in the drink's home city of Dublin.
The beer will set you back £4.44 in Paris and £2.95 in London.
But the French capital is bottom of the league of ten cities at £577.25.
Budapest comes second at £207.20 with London third at £266.99, beating cities such as Copenhagen, Dublin and New York.
The prices are based on typical charges a visit might encounter – such as a hotel stay, a cup of coffee, a three-course meal, a sightseeing bus tour and museum entry.
A spokesman for Co-op Travelcare, which carried out the research, said: 'This study indicates why cities in Eastern Europe have grown quickly in popularity with UK tourists – not only is there plenty to see but prices are keen.
'Contrary to what some people may believe, London actually looks pretty competitive, particularly if you're visiting from other parts of the UK.'
BRILLIANT!
Interest in beer and ale ping!
Not if I included air fare.
Thanks for the ping!
Having fresh Czech beers in Prague, who would need [more or less stale] Guinness there?
Time to move...
My bong and my pint glass are already packed.
That's why it's cheap. An attempt of dumping pricing.
I think you two should visit Prague (with appropriate chaperonage, of course :-).
Brilliant! Slainte!
The bar tab is on me! That will be the most expensive part of the sojourn.
There was an article in a recent “Runner’s World” saying that running in the Czech Republic was great. Does either of you want to exert, or would you rather drink beer and watch me run?
I am intending to do some serious flexing and then extending of my right elbow joint over and over and over...
You’ll get Drinker’s Elbow!
Niceness Nodule #102..the lame excuse.
Good job! there's also the "Not enough coffee" excuse, and "Can't see in my new glasses" excuse, and the "Kids were yelling at me" excuse.
You have revolutionized the “flimsy excuse,” “white lie” or “fib.” Pretty soon, we can just give the number (for example, NN.102).
These are all true excuses! (I’ll bet you don’t even have running shoes ...)
Going back to the ongoing thread on good religious etiquette, I think that one of the most important skills is to back out of an argument when somebody’s going ballistic.
If you’ve genuinely been in error, or said something you didn’t intend, then a genuine retraction is in order. However, even if the response to your post is excessive or irrational, it’s still useful to pull back, deploying a Flimsy Excuse if necessary.
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