Most expensive place you have ever visited?

[YourPerkyPoet]

We live in Zone 1 so thought we are used to expensive prices. Where have you been that you thought “ouch! that’s expensive.”

For us it has to be Mykonos and Ibiza, total rip offs. We didn’t find New York too bad and thought Barbados was okay too.

French Polynesia about 20 years ago. We were self catering (pre kids both had good jobs). It was eye poppingly expensive. We ended up living on Knorr packet soup and laughing cow cheese 🤣.

Singapore. £17 for a bottle of Heineken on our honeymoon in 2010!

And absolutely yes to Dalaman airport, bonkers. Also Geneva airport €68 for our 'standard' family MacDonalds order that is usually about £18.

Courcheval and Megeve. Batshit prices. By day 3 I’m quite relieved to find a pizza for “just” Eur35.

A cafe in Rome where I paid £7 for a large cappuccino about 30 years ago. I later discovered it was in the most expensive square in Rome.

Recently paid £40 for four beers in Norway. Free crisps though 😀

Switzerland, that was eye-watering.

But Venice had it's moments!

Oh and Antalya airport in Turkey. £20 for one drink and a muffin from Starbucks.

Copenhagen. Super expensive and boring as hell.

For prices while there, Geneva and for the cost to get there, Antarctica.

The Maldives main airport

The dentist

I was shocked to pay £500pn for a very very average hotel in Seattle!

I was also caught out by Santorini. I expected it to be expensive, but I wasn’t expecting to really think much of it. But when cocktails were £22 each in a ‘local’ bar… and massages at our hotel were £150, I was shocked that I was having to be careful.

Iceland. Wonderful trip though!

I knew before I’d read the replies Copenhagen would be mentioned as it always is.

Went for the first time last year and I honestly just didn’t find it that expensive at all.

Very reasonable transport costs, admission fees for attraction and museums.

Eating out- ok not cheap but on the whole I found the food to be of a really good standard and not eye- watering expensive at all.

Isn't it all relative?

I nominate an expensive hotel in Africa (Serengetti) where I stayed that was wildly much more expensive than any swanky Dubai or London hotel, relative to the typical salaries of locals. In absolute terms not like Dubai or Brunei or Oman... but seriously outrageous prices for locals. Me & another person in my group, both of us more used to backpacker hostels, just had to laugh and try to shrug. He was more upset by the social injustice of it all than me.

Another vote for Copenhagen here. Not worth it, for what there is to see. Was looking forward to Tivoli Gardens but couldn't bring myself to pay the rip off prices. Never going back there, but we will revisit Arhus which seemed pretty nice and more reasonable in price.

I think a bit of this is historic. Denmark was always the cheapest of the Scandinavian countries, Sweden was quite a bit more expensive. But the SEK is not particularly strong at the moment. We were there a year ago and it was much cheaper than it had been when we visited 15 years prior.

We went to an amazing italian in Stockholm, had two lovely pasta dishes (one with orawns) and two beers. £60. I think it also depends a lot on where you go :)

We were warned before we went not to buy anything from Dalaman airport fortunately we had a lot of loose change to get rid of on the way back, so the fact dh decided he wanted a 20 euro burger from Burger King at 1am didn't hurt as much as it could have done.

Maldives, everything was extremely expensive

I agree. We went out for a meal with friends in Copenhagen and it wasn’t any more expensive than we’d pay in Edinburgh.

Tivoli Gardens wasn’t any more expensive than most UK attractions, particularly if you go there in the daytime. It’s a brilliant place to go.

We’re going to Sweden for a summer holiday, it’s cheaper than we’d pay for a week in London.

Nit sure if it counts as the most expensive but the place I spent the most money in was Paris. We had a brilliant time, loved sitting in a cafe with a coffee watching the world go by, but had to get more money out after two days.

Found Copenhagen less expensive than London - a pleasant surprise

Oslo - didn't think the food was TOO bad but wine prices were eyewatering.

Switzerland - i remember being horrified by the cost of the cable car at Grindelwald.

Coffee in St Mark's Square - cliche of course - other places in Venice were more reasonable.

Aperol Spritz in the harbour at Portofino

Lunch at the Hotel Eden-Roc on Cap d'Antibes - lovely setting, surrounded by the rich and famous (the kids of said punters happy to leave their 30 euro chicken goujons nuggets like kids everywhere) But it cost an absolute fortune for food that wasn't especially fancy.

Were were meant to go to Sorrento in 2020 and it was cancelled for Covid. I looked this year and maybe booking that nice room again and the cost had literally tripled! So they can get stuffed.

Came on to say Zermatt and see someone already beat me to it! Beautiful place though.