Prices of Drinks in Hotels

littlereddevil

When staying at the Hilton Strathclyde my husband went to buy a pint and a glass of white wine for me. The barman said this white wine or that one? My oh says oh that one please and it cost him £10.50 for the wine alone !!! Over £14 for the 2 drinks. Never been ripped off like it!

shammyjack

chris30 wrote: »

Stayed in London this weekend for the Rugby, we stayed at a well known brand of Hotel on the South side near Tower Bridge. A G and T was ordered by me...... £6.00 for the Gin and another £2.50 for the Tonic, needless to say I didn't have another, just a Boddingtons at a whopping £3.84.....
Great weekend though!!

My solution to expensive hotels has always been this.

Go to the bar and order the largest bottle of sparkling water they have and a glass with ice and lemon.

Take said bottle to your room , empty then fill with gin and tonic you have bought previously at a supermarket.

Return with your bottle and keep going back to the bar for ice and lemon for your " WATER " .

Works every time !


shammy

ckerrd

Davidboy wrote: »

My daughter works behind the bar at a 4* hotel. She tells me the prices and I really can't believe it. She says the most expensive whisky is £13 a shot :eek:

As others have said though, most are on expenses so don't care about the price.:rolleyes:

D

I was never allowed to claim booze on expenses, nor would I expect to be able to. When I was sent off to a nice hotel, always ended up finding the local, cheaper, pub for drinks.

Sam_Bee

£18 for G&T is my personal highest rip-off. It was only Gordon's as well. But it was a mini-bar in the Maldives. Needless to say it was the only drink drank out of it!

fred_quimby

I find this even worse when abroad when the cost of living is much cheaper than in UK. For instance I live in Tanzania and you pay 1,000Tsh (about 40p) for a beer in a bar but in a hotel visited by tourists you can pay 3 times that amount and tourists pay it because they think they are getting a good deal.

Consequently locals cannot afford to eat and drink in hotels. Needless to say that most of the hotels are owned by foreigners (wazungu).

littlereddevil

Mini bars are a totally different kettle of fish altogether

lynzpower

Mardrew wrote: »

It was the Devere Mottram Hall in Cheshire. (4* hotel)

The thing is, if the drink prices had been more reasonable they would have got more money out of us.

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much appreciated, my mother is trying to push for us to get married there, now I have a bloody good reason why not!!

DKLS

ckerrd wrote: »

I was never allowed to claim booze on expenses, nor would I expect to be able to. When I was sent off to a nice hotel, always ended up finding the local, cheaper, pub for drinks.

I can but it comes off food budget allowance, which is £28 per night, not often I go over that, unless entertaining clients.
A hotel i worked in had a Cognac for £450 a shot! I tried nearly 3 grands worth one night when bored to see how "special" it was.
I hasten to add my tastebuds arent refined enough for those prices.

Mardrew

lynzpower wrote: »

7
much appreciated, my mother is trying to push for us to get married there, now I have a bloody good reason why not!!

Lynzpower

There was a wedding on whilst we were there and were discussing, amongst ourselves, how much money the guests would need for the day and were wondering what the actual cost of a wedding would be there. Astronomical is what we came up with. (Off topic to this thread, but we had the Table D'Hote menu @ £24.95. The food and presentation was excellent but the portions were minute and we were all still hungry when we had finished! Less than 2 hours later we got some crisps. On a positive note the grounds are nice, especially around by the lake.)

davetrousers

lynzpower wrote: »

7
much appreciated, my mother is trying to push for us to get married there, now I have a bloody good reason why not!!

Are you marrying your mother? lol