Is this the most expensive McDonalds in the world?

[Sleepdeprived42long]

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?

I got a McD’s from Dalaman airport 2 years ago, I’m sure (I hope) I didn’t pay these prices.

Except that it’s Euros, I’d have guessed Geneva, where we once paid a ripoff €6 each for titchy bottles of water.

They don't use euros and I'm pretty sure they're more expensive than this! I paid about €40 in a Zurich burger king for one veggie burger meal + an added portion of veggie nuggets!

Do we know the answer yet!?

If you are stupid/rich enought to pay those prices they will charge it

Refilling water bottles after security is a pain too. Was at Geneva recently and I had to go upstairs, find a random nail bar and then go down a corridor that looked like it went nowhere to find a water fountain. It had such a pitiful dribble that I could barely get any of our bottles a quarter full, and they're perfectly normal sizes.

No cafe was willing to fill us our bottles (fair enough, not their job) but wasn't impressed by this especially because of all of the guff about being environmentally friendly everywhere

I take it you haven't read the OP's update

Back in 2015 I paid £40 for two adult meals in Geneva!

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

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

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

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)

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.

@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

Jaysus pretty cheap for Dublin 😂

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).

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

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!!

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.

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.

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

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 😫

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

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

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