Really fucked off with Euro exchange rate

[GrumpyOldBag]

We have been going on holiday self-catering to the same place in Europe for over 10 years.

This year everything feels prohibitively expensive - to the point where it is really inhibiting what we can choose to do.

We are here for 2 weeks and it's really hard as family of 4 (with 2 teenagers) to spend less than £100/euros a day on activities/eating out.

Not in a beach resort type place, so taking a picnic to the beach for the day isn't an option - nearly everything there is to do here costs money. 3 euros for a coffee, 3 for an ice-cream - it all quickly adds up. Even the 'cheap' food in the supermarket is expensive. Practically at parity with £.

Bloody Brexit!

Following sweets post i should clarify that i mean eating out was cheaper

I cant remember the prices in the supermarket, but they cant have been too bad or we wouldnt have been able to afford to go back

It's funny we've had so long going to Europe and thinking 'I can't believe this is so cheap!' and now it's the other way round

Depends which part of Europe you live in, where you go and where you live in the UK..

I find London expensive.

Surely any capital city is going to be comparatively expensive

Surely any capital city is going to be comparatively expensive

Ok - I find the South East expensive.

Just finished my moules et frites and yes it was expensive. But I get paid in euros so can't blame the exchange rate. worth it though

I live in the France. SIL took her family to the UK this year on holiday. She's wanted to for a while, seeing as her DC are learning English at school. It's the first time it has been affordable since they've been learning foreign languages.

Clearsomme, I'm glad your family is benefiting. Of course, it's a 2-way street.

We usually holiday in France and in general the supermarkets in resort places are more expensive than our home city. It's the downside of all the beautiful, remote countryside. It costs more to transport the goods there.

Just wait till the Open Skys deal affects Ryanair and other airlines after Brexit.

We have got used to cheap flights to Europe.

We had already booked our holiday (in France) but next year if things haven't changed my DC will see something of the UK other than the place where their Grandfather lives. ( Not a holiday location)

France was so expensive this year! We live in London and were still shocked. Bloody Brexit!!

I meant to say 6 EUR for a crisps and coke is expensive to me in my home city but if it's a campsite shop and the alternative is an 90 minute round trip to a hypermarket, I would see it as normal.

Prices in France are barely rising as inflation in France is less that 0.7%.

UK tourists were getting in excess of €1.40 for a £1 just over a year or so ago.
Now UK tourists are barely getting €1 for £1.

I'm in Gibraltar at the mo, well just over the border in Spain its eye wateringly expensive 11€ for a starter, I live in London so I am used to lumpy prices but wow.
Wine, beer and fags are cheap though.
Gib just wasn't worth spending £12 for a Wetherspoons dinner, scary stuff with food prices in Europe.

Interestingly, so is Macron. He's demanding EU labour reform, particularly for a revisions of the posted worker's directive but the politics of it all are very murky and there's evidence of potential horse trading over other EU directives that certain Central and Eastern European countries do not like.

This is what pisses me off, because it looks like Macron might just get it. Yet we are worse affected by this (especially our poor) and they never considered offering us similar. (The break was not comparable to what Macron wants).

If the EU had come back and said 'Look, we know we're not so good for the less well off in your country, so we have solutions which can help' and offered similar I may well have voted remain. But they didn't. Because they didn't even want us to stay.

UK tourists were getting in excess of €1.40 for a £1 just over a year or so ago
Now UK tourists are barely getting €1 for £1

Which is a bit like it was in 2008. It's just been a lot cheaper since then.

What should the rate be?

If we had joined the Euro....what rate would we have gone in at?

If it means cutting back on spending in the U.K. to ensure I can still go on holiday abroad, I will do it. I definitely will not be holidaying in areas that voted heavily for this clusterfuck so this year for our UK break (we usually do one UK and one foreign annually) we went to Scotland instead of Wales where we used to go.

It still looks better than 2007 and 2008 when I worked in the eurozone. What did we blame it on then?

What did we blame it on then

The alternative is to ask why the pound has gone up in value since then and then why it has decreased.

Some people will have made quite a bit of money on this speculation. And some will have lost quite a bit.

It still looks better than 2007 and 2008 when I worked in the eurozone. What did we blame it on then?

The Great Recession.

Brexit is pretty much the same thing.

A 20 year perspective - vs USD and the Euro

2003 looked like the time to go

orlantina

I live in the south...i mainly stay in the south

It could be cheaper...I'll give you that

We went to France a few weeks ago in a self catering apartment. The supermarkets were horrendously expensive - I paid £4 for a box of cereal! Oddly eating out seemed no more expensive than at home.