Hotel Bar Prices

MarkyMarkD

I'm not sure which way you are making that comment, Becles. 70p isn't very much to pay for anything, tbh. If you think 70p is too much, maybe you should train your kids to be happy with plain tap water which you can get for free.

Our daughter drinks nothing but milk and tap water.

heather38

funnily enough we went to a wedding on friday and it cost me £8.50 for a small glass of white wine and a vodka and coke. i nearly fainted. this was at a holiday inn.
they were charging £4.20 for a pint of beer.
one of the guys nipped to the asda round the corner and bought a couple of bottles of vodka. the bar did a roaring trade in coke that night.

Becles

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

I'm not sure which way you are making that comment, Becles. 70p isn't very much to pay for anything, tbh. If you think 70p is too much, maybe you should train your kids to be happy with plain tap water which you can get for free.

They do drink tap water, but water was 70p as well. I didn't think they could charge for tap water, but they said it was to cover the costs of using the glass.

A 70p one off charge is not too bad. However, when you've got two children in a very hot room, dancing about like muppets to the disco, they drink gallons, so all the 70p's soon mount up!

I just thought 70p for tap water and a spalsh of squash was excessive considering it was Morrisons own brand that retails for around 50p for the whole bottle of squash.

If I'd been more organised, I would have taken our cartons of juice but I'd just had a baby so I had a million and one other things on my mind!

deanos

edthedead wrote: »

I appreciate that they can charge what ever they like, but since it was a wedding reception I didn't have much choice but to 'shop with them'!

Exactly why they charge high price, because they can get away with it.

Just like going to a theme park or to see a race at Silverstone, they charge high prices because they can, and they have "got you" as you cant go elsewhere

Alex_of_Swansea

Having arranged my own wedding last year, I can testify that prices do get hiked whenever the word 'wedding' appears. But I was sure that tap water had to be free. My mum gave a bar in Cardiff a huge row for trying to charge her for tap water the other week - and got away with it. Sounds like this bar was just being cheeky.