most overpriced place you have been?

[BrickPoet]

in your opinion

London

Neilson holidays.

Helsinki. We were eating in a harbour restaurant and wanted a bottle of wine. Was relieved to see Villa Maria Sauvignon at 70 euros. Steep but we were expecting high scandi prices.

Reader, that was for a glass. Not a bottle. We sipped slowly.

Tebay Farm Shop…fucking hell.

Blackpool. Should be the cheapest place in the country (beautiful beach but the rest of the town is a just awful, sad, dirty..) but i was surprised how much things cost!

The Maldives.

Glorious and would go again. But insanely overpriced.

lol yes!!! It’s in the Venn Diagram intersection of trapped motorway service station overpriced and wanky organic chichi overpriced

Tromso in Norway.

We were in Croatia (Dubrovnik, Split, Hvar) last year and I didn't notice it being expensive at all.

Norway was really expensive but you expect Scandinavia to be. Most overpriced and overrated place I've been to is Dublin

@BoneshakerBike I went to vegas recently for work. I was staggered with the costs. Even Starbucks was $25 for two small coffees and a pain au chocolat. The hotels are reasonable but the costs of food/drink the shows etc was crazy. Was with lots of US clients who agreed it was crazy expensive

The whole Venice thing makes me laugh. I used to live there, as do a lot of working class Venetians (yup, they're still clinging on).
I went back last year with the kids. A sit- down cappuccino outside in the sun was about 1 euro 50. An ice cream cone was 2-3 euros. A pizza started at about 7-8 euros (margherita). Were any of these places in Piazza San Marco or the surrounding areas? They were not.
Use your legs, get away from the tourist areas, eat and drink where normal people do. Campo Santa Margherita is nice (although a sit down cappuccino there is about 2-3 euros I think, as it's a very popular hangout for locals and students).

I expect major tourist cities like New York, London, Paris etc. to be expensive so I don’t consider them ‘overpriced’.

What I personally think is overpriced are other holiday destinations in the UK. In peak months self catering cottages are extortionate and it can be cheaper to go abroad where you are guaranteed great weather!

Norway

Centre Parcs. Bloody awful and stupidly expensive.

Centre Parcs for me. Such a rip off. I couldn't believe the prices in the on site supermarket. It was literally robbery. Let alone the cost of staying in a very mediocre place. Never again.

Disneyland Paris and Paris in general was quite pricey!

Although for me Dubai was extortionate! Alcohol was very expensive like a cocktail, beer etc and even just meals in general and everything else! The only thing that was cheap were taxis but u had to take them all the time to go anywhere so we prob spent £200+ just in taxis for the nights!

We spent the same in Dubai for 10 nights as we did in a vegas/New York holiday for 12 nights. We also bought lots of clothes, bags etc in America but hardly anything in Dubai.

Also relatively recently realised I hate Tebay. "Ooh we get to stop at Tebay," everyone's all excited, then just...total disappointment every single time. Lukewarm mash and you can't even buy a stamp. Bring back Little Chef.

I'd mostly defend London, as an ex-Londoner, its reputation for expensiveness is mostly that people do expensive things if you go there to visit! Yes Madame Tussauds and a black cab to Liberty is expensive, no shit. It's the same price as everywhere else to get your deodorant in Superdrug and an M&S sandwich. However, the British Library cafe is absolutely ridiculous. £6 for a cupcake.

New York, crazy expensive and we have fairly deep pockets, ended up searching for bargains to get dinner under £100 for 2!

The flip side is I can't believe how cheap ai to the med is - paid £650 each for return flights, laggy, coach transfers and unlimited food and drink at a fairly good 4 star (6 restaurants included, 5 pools etc) which I compare to £100 a night no food no pool at a premier inn, £20 a day for breakfast plus meals, drinks and petrol to drive there! Tenerife was a bargain

Tenerife is not the Med though.

@Hobbesmanc

Just back from Helsinki and it was surprisingly reasonable. Managed to buy wine for €45 a bottle in a very nice restaurant for instance. The prices generally were what I describe as capital city prices, similar to London but found a bar with €20 a bottle wine one evening and another with beers all at €9 a half litre which isn't cheap i admit but I was fearing worse and got € at 1:1.13 as it was a good exchange day.

Totally agree about Dubai. Everything is ridiculously expensive there. £7.25 for a can of coke! Even our kids thought's it was extortionate and there have zero clue usually! I’ve attached a bill for one of our meals and this wasn’t the most expensive one. (The conversion rate is approximately 4–1 AED-Pounds).

Cancun, about 30 years ago. About 4x equivalent prices to the US. We could compare easily as it was all priced in USD.

Bermuda

@crackofdoom dd said the same thing, her and her boyfriend went (both uni students on a shoestring), researched where was good for food and drink that was a bit off the main tourist drags and both said that it was way cheaper than they ever expected. They were having multiple courses for lunches and dinners and having a bottle of wine etc but ate breakfast in their air BnB - said they spent less than £60 per person per day and that’s including their travel whilst there. Doesn’t sound that expensive at all - I think it’s about where you go, same as a lot of things. Do some research etc.
disclaimer - I never bother researching anything holiday related 😂 I cba!

Monaco & St Tropez. Loved both, happily paid a bomb. Well dh paid, probably not happily 🤣
UK is a bomb in school holidays.