most overpriced place you have been?

[BrickPoet]

in your opinion

London

Venice.
Although I was recently charged £4.85 for a bottle of water in central London

Disney World

The weak £ is definitely a factor. We went to the US about 7 years ago and thought it pretty cheap. The £ has halved in value against the $ since then.

Maldives.

Journey there was annoying enough to make me never return. So bloody complicated and tiring

Prosseco doesn't even count as an alcoholic drink..I would have had something a lot stronger than that 😀

Depends on whether somewhere is expensive due to the fact the salaries and cost of living in that country are so much higher, or the fact they rely on imported food (eg small islands) - or if the prices are high due to greed and profit margins only.

The former - Switzerland, Scandi countries, small islands that can’t grow much of their own food so have to pay a hefty import price - I don’t mind or at least understand why.

The latter - theme parks, attractions, rip off cafes in centre of cities like Paris or Rome - I do!

Nb I do appreciate that Venice is actively trying to deter tourists (and has to reduce numbers if it is to survive!) so don’t mind their high prices. It’s a much needed additional form of tourist tax given the fact government taxes are limited.

For future reference, you can pop into a Tesco Express or M&S Simply Food (of which there are dozens in Central London) and pick up a bottle of water for about £1.20!

What was annoying in Norway was that a bottle of water was hideously expensive everywhere.

The 02 a few weeks ago at a concert - £ 15.00 for a single burger 🙄🙄

Center parcs
Sardinia

Royal Albert Hall. Nearly £17 for a plastic cup of very average Sauv Blanc

Cabo Mexico and st Thomas

City ? London

Country ? Switzerland

Places I haven't been because they are so expensive ?

(in UK) Centre Parcs
(Country) Norway

Stockholm, specifically the attractions- pretty crap museums at big prices ! Food prices were fine at lidl, maybe even cheaper than London.

Worst places I’ve been to which struck me as low value of money are South of France (it’s like the Costa del sol but 3x the price and much less laid back)
Norway especially Oslo. Not sure how it has sustained its high cost of living.
Tivoli Gardens - quaint but not much to keep you interested for long, just a pretty funfair.
New York for eating out and tipping, although there is quite a bit of free stuff to do
Disneyworld/ Disneyland Paris - entrance fees are silly money as are food prices. Everyone in Disneyland Paris smuggling breakfast rolls just to save money later in the day is not exactly fun.
The worst though - Geneva is off the scale

Paris
New York
Temple bar, Dublin. In fact, Dublin full stop

Disney World Florida

We stayed near St Tropez for 2 weeks and spent a fortune. Even without one of the handbags I was eyeing up. It was a lovely trip though. Norway, also, was very expensive. Switzerland was the place I really felt ripped off though. Mediocre food and services at eye-watering prices. I am not normally tight on holiday but felt personally cross at the price of the cable car.

Disney.

and the Uk: particularly London

Brussels.

Switzerland!!

Banff springs hotel.. and also right beside it.. Lake Louise in same area. Overpriced but so very worthit

Haha, love this clarification ❤️

Well when we went to Reykjavik our lunches (bagel, cake and coffee) were cheaper than what the same food would have cost in somewhere like Costa and the quality far higher because it was all made fresh on site not brought in factory food.

Restaurants were probably about 50/100% more than mid price UK places for meals out and drinks, likewise supermarket food, so 70 euro would buy a bottle of wine, not a glass. So if you're used to London prices I'd agree that Iceland at least is 'not much more expensive'.

You could get a city card that would allow you to see many museums, use buses and go swimming for about £30 a day. Trips out probably weren't massively more expensive than days out at places like Alton Towers and far more memorable, better organised - no queuing for hours for example, food was good quality and everywhere was clean and well maintained, no litter and when we got back to the UK we realised how shabby places looked in comparison

The so called AI 5* hotel in Barbados! Cost a fortune for the hotel, only allowed 2 drinks a day, no vegetarian options -DH is veggie and the website menu had options. Cockroaches everywhere and birds shitting on the buffet at breakfast:

Monaco and Singapore by far.