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Is this the most expensive McDonalds in the world?

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Sleepdeprived42long · 17/04/2024 22:32

Travelling home from holiday last week and these were the prices at the airport McDonalds!

22 Euros for a double Big Mac meal!

Anyone want to guess which airport? And is there a more expensive McDonald’s out there?

Is this the most expensive McDonalds in the world?
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Irishmama100 · 18/04/2024 16:36

I was going to say Antalya - Not far off - Flip me kids ate at the airport for the price of gourmet meal - Ridiculous. When everything else is so cheap in Turkey you would wonder why airport food is soo expensive.

kitsuneghost · 18/04/2024 15:50

LakieLady · 18/04/2024 13:50

I'd rather go hungry than spend 50p on one!

I used to get a Maccy craving approx once a year. It would last ages, until I had a Maccy, which always left me feeling slightly nauseous and put me off for another year or so.

The last time I had one, approx 6 years ago, it just tasted vile, I couldn't finish it and I've never had that craving since.

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That happens to me.
Just randomly fancy one every so often so have one and so then remember why I never have one.

youngestisapsycho · 18/04/2024 15:08

There was another food outlet at Dalaman where we got a large pizza slice, wedges and a drink for £8.50.

NotAgainBrian · 18/04/2024 14:45

Oh I had a feeling that would be Dalaman as soon as I saw the prices. It's insane isn't it!

RichardsGear · 18/04/2024 14:44

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - that's the one! (I didn't have to Google that, honest! 😉) I'll remember the tip about the place round the corner if we ever go again, thank you.

MrsTerryPratchett · 18/04/2024 14:28

RichardsGear · 18/04/2024 07:54

McDonald's in Milan (in the very posh shopping arcade, the name of which escapes me) is amazing. They do mini calzone pizza things, and there's also an area upstairs like a patisserie with coffee in glass cups and very nice cakes served on china plates with cake forks. And I don't remember it being expensive at all.

The Galleria?

And those little calzone, if you go downstairs and around the corner, there's a shop that only sells them and they are one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.

LakieLady · 18/04/2024 13:50

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/04/2024 01:42

Am I the only person who would rather go hungry than pay £50 for Maccies?!

I dont care how much money I hypothetically have in that situation I am not going to spend that much on their crap food. Its only saving grace (and yes we did used to have it too fairly often) was it was cheap!

I'd rather go hungry than spend 50p on one!

I used to get a Maccy craving approx once a year. It would last ages, until I had a Maccy, which always left me feeling slightly nauseous and put me off for another year or so.

The last time I had one, approx 6 years ago, it just tasted vile, I couldn't finish it and I've never had that craving since.

kitsuneghost · 18/04/2024 12:49

Fulfil a basic human need? That's a bit dramatic
Its a 4.5 hr flight that you can take your own food and snacks.
Literally millions of people go on holiday without having to buy airport food

AInightingale · 18/04/2024 12:45

Was going to say Dublin, but that would be cheap for Dublin.

Agentdanascullyx · 18/04/2024 12:41

Geneva I saw something like £25 for a breakfast bap there a few weeks ago

Crikeyalmighty · 18/04/2024 12:39

@JudgeJ agreed- I paid 34 euros for 2 lasagnas (not bad) 2 soft drinks and a coffee

ThisIsWhatIDo · 18/04/2024 12:33

Many years ago DH & I went to Turkey on holiday, we didn't have much money but had gone AI. Hotel was awful so ended up eating out a lot more than we planned to.
Got to Bodrum airport and was going to get a BK or McD (can't remember which it was) looked at the prices and had to share a bag of Haribo instead 😫

Erdinger · 18/04/2024 12:33

That’s a scam , but I wouldn’t buy Maccas in Turkey anyway. I always think that U.K. airports have the most reasonably priced eateries when compared to other airports

Whenwillthewashingend · 18/04/2024 11:53

We came home from Dalaman nearly 25 years ago, from our honeymoon. First time abroad for both of us. I still remember paying £6 for a can of Diet Coke. Was certainly a shock after not paying much the whole break.

Mummyofbananas · 18/04/2024 11:36

Sleepdeprived42long · 18/04/2024 07:49

Sorry for not coming back sooner…I was sleeping 😂

So lots of people correctly guessed that this was in Dalaman airport (Turkey).

Eye wateringly expensive! Not sure how they get away with it???

I’ve been to quite a few of the other airport McDs mentioned here-Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, Rome - and they definitely weren’t as expensive as this when I was there. That might have changed!

Sounds like Istanbul airport similarly expensive so maybe Turkey is the most expensive place to buy a McDs!

In Dalaman last year with 30 euros we had to share two kfc meals between 5 of us - assumed we'd be fine with the money we had left- prices were ridiculous.

smoothieooo · 18/04/2024 11:26

Slightly off topic I know, but as a birthday treat on Monday I ordered a Five Guys delivery for me and DC. 3 burgers, 3 cajun fries of various sizes, 2 Oreo milkshakes. £70.18. Seventy fecking pounds!!

Sparklfairy · 18/04/2024 11:23

I'm sure the premises in the airport cost a lot more than your bog standard McDonald's - for exactly the reasons you say. High footfall and trapped in a building with limited choice, I'm not sure it's McDonald's fault or that the franchisee should make less profit per meal because of it.

You might argue that they sell more meals at airports so can swallow the difference, but most McDonald's customers know how much their go-to meal costs usually, balk at the higher price and go elsewhere - where they don't know the 'normal' price and still get ripped off

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Sleepdeprived42long · 18/04/2024 11:16

I can almost understand an independent food provider charging extortionate rates-supply and demand I suppose! But I would have thought a chain, especially one like McDonald’s with a reputation to protect would have some say and control over the prices at what are presumably franchises?!?

It felt almost like a scam. Herd people into area where they can’t leave then charge them beyond reasonable prices to fulfil a basic human need (food).

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Scorchio84 · 18/04/2024 11:10

whatwhatwhot · 17/04/2024 22:33

Dublin

Jaysus pretty cheap for Dublin 😂

mitogoshi · 18/04/2024 10:54

@JudgeJ

I'll ask dp, he always gets McDonald's at schipol! That said he's on his way home from meetings and grabbing food quickly, he comes in smiling as he loves a milkshake

EnglishBluebell · 18/04/2024 10:43

This shouldn't be allowed. Like a PP said, it's in a place where they know most people have hardly any/no other choice, it's taking advantage of people!
I know some say "If people pay it, why on earth wouldn't they/can’t they charge it" (usually Tory voters) but it's still taking advantage of people. Especially if those customers aren't able to work out the exchange rate from their own currency.

Also, something like McDonalds also appeals to children. The amount of kids travelling through that airport who will be fussy eaters and won’t eat airplane food (some due to additional needs etc...) The parents are left with no choice and are taken advantage of.

mitogoshi · 18/04/2024 10:42

I always carry an empty water bottle to refill (most airports provide a point just through security though used to be a maze to get to Gatwick's hopefully better now. I also carry snack bars, crisps or similar as I'm fed up with exorbitant airport pricing overseas (U.K. isn't too bad, though Heathrow is worse than regional airports)

Dappy55 · 18/04/2024 10:41

I vote Dalaman, paid £27 for a beer and 2 cans of soft drink

Sandwichblock · 18/04/2024 10:37

Interesting. Why is that (other then greed?)? Turkey isn't typically expensive?

JudgeJ · 18/04/2024 10:34

MyBrownEyedHandsomeBoy · 17/04/2024 22:46

Schipol

Schipol has some very good eating places, why on earth would anyone sink to McDonalds!!!

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