Is the island of Kos expensive?

delnstan

we have a trip to the Greek island of Kos planned at the end of July and just learned from sum1 thats just been that its very expensive there i.e. £8 a pint and £1-60 for a litre of petrol (hiring a car )...any1 else recently been and enlighten us please?

BoGoF

Been to many Greek islands (never Kos) and never paid anywhere near that for a beer. Having said that, this was before the well publicised problems Greece are having so taxes on alchohol etc may have gone up.

It was normally about 3 euro for a pint of the local beer, maybe 4 or 5 euro for a 'brand' beer.

basill

My mate has just arrived on Lesvos, a large Mythos is 3.5 euro and that is in a bar with cushions on the seats...

Not Kos but dont worry too much.

B

Ezmondino

I've been there 5 times and never seen the prices you were told. So unless everything has gone up by 300% in the last 6 months you'll be fine.

delnstan

thanx for the responses...the folks that say this, have just recently returned from there and say the reason for the price increases are the trouble occuring in Greece at the moment !!

before_hollywood

well my friend runs a bar in kos (kefalos) and i somehow doubt a glass of mythos is suddenly 9 euro

i went 2 years ago (exchange rate was similar)

mythos (local beer) large glass (about half a litre ) 2.75
heineken/san miguel etc (bottle) 3.00
restaurant meal 7-10.00

i'll see what people on trip advisor are saying, i could email my friend but its holiday season, world cup and friday night, he'll be busy

Ezmondino

Well I just got back from 2 weeks there and the prices have not changed at all. A Mythos is still 1.50/2 euros for 500ml in a restaurant, 90cents/1 euro in the shops!. Restuarant food hasn't gone up either. In fact a lot of places were offering deals to try to get people in.

Perhaps you might find it more expensive in certain places in Kos Town, but that has always been the case.

Ezmondino

before_hollywood wrote: »

well my friend runs a bar in kos (kefalos) and i somehow doubt a glass of mythos is suddenly 9 euro

Hey..which bar? I know most of them quite well

Ezmondino

Oh fuel is about 1.55 euro a litre, but with being such a small island you don't get through much anyway.
Hire cars were about the same as before, 25euros per day. That's pretty good.

delnstan

thanx for the reply...we go in a couple of weeks so thats a relief on the pocket to know this..i will post on ere wen we get bak and let u all know how we found it to be

Mich81

I've always found Kardamena to be more expensive than the other resorts - but I think thats because its got a more 'party'ish reputation. Last time I went it was around 5-6 euros a drink in most places.