The Great British Rip off

[paulchapo]

At least you're not gonna end up in a 3rd world hospital with covid though, like my mate is in Malaysia, he thought going for a cheap holiday there was a good idea. Big cockroaches everywhere including his bed.

Yes but if you thought like that you'd never go anywhere.

 

[Bill Walker]

Yes but if you thought like that you'd never go anywhere.

Oh yeah, I'm not advocating no travel. Just not 3rd world countries atm. Well not for me anyway. With covid about you want to be somewhere with good medical shit.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

At least you're not gonna end up in a 3rd world hospital with covid though, like my mate is in Malaysia, he thought going for a cheap holiday there was a good idea. Big cockroaches everywhere including his bed.

Tell him to fork out for a proper hospital then, the cheap bastard. Or get decent travel insurance. I've been in hospital in Malaysia and it was better than most hotels.

 

[Bill Walker]

Tell him to fork out for a proper hospital then, the cheap bastard. Or get decent travel insurance. I've been in hospital in Malaysia and it was better than most hotels.

So they have better hospitals than the UK and Australia in Malaysia?
Who'd have thought.
I'll certainly tell him.

 

[m7mcfc]

Tell him to fork out for a proper hospital then, the cheap bastard. Or get decent travel insurance. I've been in hospital in Malaysia and it was better than most hotels.

Travel insurance is a must. I won't go anywhere without it. You just don't know what can happen in a different country.
I was in benidorm the other week and ended up in the wrong hotel pissed up. I got in and they gave me a card to get in the room I told them I was in. Luckily nobody was in there but the next day I thought how easy was that if you had bad intentions. Quite scary I just said room 702 and they regenerated a card and gave it me. I was shocked when I woke up and realised I was in the wrong hotel. Insurance is a definite especially on holiday with all the lads.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Travel insurance is a must. I won't go anywhere without it. You just don't know what can happen in a different country.
I was in benidorm the other week and ended up in the wrong hotel pissed up. I got in and they gave me a card to get in the room I told them I was in. Luckily nobody was in there but the next day I thought how easy was that if you had bad intentions. Quite scary I just said room 702 and they regenerated a card and gave it me. I was shocked when I woke up and realised I was in the wrong hotel. Insurance is a definite especially on holiday with all the lads.

Ha ha, one of our mob a few years ago did this, ended up sleeping around the hotel pool because he couldn’t remember which hotel he was in, woke up with no watch and what was left of the kitty gone!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

So they have better hospitals than the UK and Australia in Malaysia?
Who'd have thought.
I'll certainly tell him.

If you go to fancy private hospitals, yes. Which you should be if you've got travel insurance. Have you ever actually been to this "third world country?"

 

[Dubai Blue]

So they have better hospitals than the UK and Australia in Malaysia?
Who'd have thought.
I'll certainly tell him.

Of course they have. He's just not in one of them by the sounds of it. Although I'm guessing there might not be much choice when it comes to Covid

 

[SilverFox2]

Not as bad here in Spain where beers and spirits are virtually the same price and restaurants have adjusted upwards about 10 percent.
However despite growing the veg in our area, tomats and peppers etc shot up 50 percent to double in supermarkets.
One area of massive growth in cost is commercial herbicide where the cost was about 25 euros per 5 litres now 52 euros.
Paints also rising steadily even water based ones.
Don't know about tourist areas but they have always been higher than inland.

 

[Bill Walker]

If you go to fancy private hospitals, yes. Which you should be if you've got travel insurance. Have you ever actually been to this "third world country?"

Hmmm..This is sounding a bit antagonistic mate but I'm not up for an argument about Malaysia (boring other posters to death in the process).

 

[Kinkladze 1]

Travel insurance is a must. I won't go anywhere without it. You just don't know what can happen in a different country.
I was in benidorm the other week and ended up in the wrong hotel pissed up. I got in and they gave me a card to get in the room I told them I was in. Luckily nobody was in there but the next day I thought how easy was that if you had bad intentions. Quite scary I just said room 702 and they regenerated a card and gave it me. I was shocked when I woke up and realised I was in the wrong hotel. Insurance is a definite especially on holiday with all the lads.

That could have ended up a legendary story!

 

[flook]

restaurant prices typically 50% up on pre-covid prices, the answer is simple, eat out 50% less and fuck the profiteering cunts. Trouble is when you take that across all sectors you wind up stopping in and leading a very dull life

 

[Blue Maverick]

restaurant prices typically 50% up on pre-covid prices, the answer is simple, eat out 50% less and fuck the profiteering cunts. Trouble is when you take that across all sectors you wind up stopping in and leading a very dull life

Don’t know my mum and dad had a simple life and enjoyed it and we did as 3 kids!

 

[M18CTID]

Am based in London these days. Went to the pub for the first time in years with a mate who was down from Manchester and got charged around £11 for a rum and coke plus half a lager. It was the same in the next pub.

I was shocked but for all I know that charge is typical.

How does it compare with the North of England/other places?

Literally not that much different to the vast majority of bars/pubs in Manchester city centre. Outside of Wetherspoons, the Piccadilly Tavern, Sinclair's Oyster Bar, the Lower Turks Head (now that Holts have it), the Hare And Hounds, and that rotten stuff they serve in Wave Bar and Sachas, you won't be paying much less, if at all. I've sometimes even found London pub prices to be cheaper than some Manchester bars in recent years when doing an away game down The Smoke.

 

[stonerblue]

Went to the Rewind festival in Macclesfield yesterday, I’ve been going since the inception in 2014 but always camping this time it was a day trip for various reasons. Now unlike Glastonbury you can’t take your own booze or food in and they do search you, even things like crisps aren’t allowed. Now I get that these food companies have to charge to make a profit but fuck me yesterday I think I saw the beginning of the end for the leisure sector. A few years ago you average takeaway was about £7, not bad for a festival, yesterday £12, £7 a pint, I bought two small tubs of ice cream, £5 each! Didn’t seem to stop many getting hammered but a lot was smuggled in (there are ways ;) ) Thing is we’re does it end, with the what’s coming in winter the leisure sector is going to the wall first God help them at Xmas.

Mate of mine was at a festival last week and got just eat to deliver a take away to the main gate.

 

[stonerblue]

Am based in London these days. Went to the pub for the first time in years with a mate who was down from Manchester and got charged around £11 for a rum and coke plus half a lager. It was the same in the next pub.

I was shocked but for all I know that charge is typical.

How does it compare with the North of England/other places?

Fiver in my locals

 

[117 M34]

Travel insurance is a must. I won't go anywhere without it. You just don't know what can happen in a different country.
I was in benidorm the other week and ended up in the wrong hotel pissed up. I got in and they gave me a card to get in the room I told them I was in. Luckily nobody was in there but the next day I thought how easy was that if you had bad intentions. Quite scary I just said room 702 and they regenerated a card and gave it me. I was shocked when I woke up and realised I was in the wrong hotel. Insurance is a definite especially on holiday with all the lads.

Got woke up in the morning by 3 bears coming back home?

 

[Blue Maverick]

Mate of mine was at a festival last week and got just eat to deliver a take away to the main gate.

Surprised they allowed it in, they wouldn’t at Rewind, no food or drink allowed in, unless it’s a sealed bottle of water.

 

[inbetween]

I think it's staffing that is causing the big problems. The Thai near me is advertising for bar staff at £11ph and the minimum wage is what £9? These places clearly can't get the staff.

It's really unfair for people to say that all of these places are just being greedy. For many they have to increase prices or they'll go bust. More pubs are going bust than are surviving. For chains they probably are coining it in as they have the scale to reduce prices but your local probably isn't and no pub owner will work 16hr days to earn nowt.

 

[blueinsa]

Hot dog at Alton towers the other day, £9!

They can fuck off it’s ridiculous