Aviva stadium and RDS

Johnquinn15

A pint and a glass of wine today at Aviva for Heineken cup final = €12.70

French in shock

Irish in shock

RDS last night for 4 pints of beer = €22.80. Joke !!!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Says yer man who can afford to be out two nights in a row.

P_1

Simple solution for the RDS is to bring in a bag of cans. Leinster don't make any money from bar sales there so it doesn't make me feel guilty

shamtastic

Same at pretty much every large event to be fair.

Wishbone Ash

Presumably they are charging those prices as people are willing to pay them.

Makes me glad that I have absolutely no interest in rugby! :cool:

sandin

There's no way in hell that a french person could be in shock. You won't find a pint of beer in a pub in Paris for under €8 - mostly its a tenner. A glass of wine in a pub would not be found for under a fiver in Paris either, mostly they are €7-8.

In Stade De Paris a pint will cost €10. (well it did 2 years ago) - so 4 x heineken would be €40 - that's nearly twice the price of the RDS!

A cocktail in a pub in paris will cost €15 in an average pub - in the famouse Harry's it's €22!

So the only shock the french had was the VALUE compared to the prices they get charged over there.

xpletiv

Thought this was going to be more the rip of off the price of tickets to go see provincial sides playing and the rip off that Aviva impose on international games, eliminating so much of the population that we get 1/3 and 1/2 full stadiums even against the likes of South Africa...

decisions

Cans and a couple of plastic cups from the bar. Simple.

cson

Shocked at how easy it was to sneak cans in there on Saturday. Wasn't covert about it at all and handily got 2 in.

Anyways, I don't think anyone should be under any illusions at this stage as to what the prices are like in the Aviva/Croker/O2 etc.

Just plan accordingly.

munchkin_utd

Johnquinn15 wrote: »

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RDS last night for 4 pints of beer = €22.80. Joke !!!

thats 5.70 per imperial (568.3ml) pint, so actually almost bang on a fiver for the standard 500ml continental serving.

Well, except in Paris (which has been pointed out is FRANCE) where you'd possibly pay 6 to 8 euro for 200ml of beer if you arent careful. Other regional cities in France that I've visited werent as bad but still on average would charge over a fiver for 500ml - so more expensive than the RDS.
Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Spain all would be on a similar level if not more expensive.
As for scandanavia.......

anyhow, Dublin booze prices, especially at events, arent cheap - but to a travelled person arent terribly alarming either.

xpletiv

You guys do realise that the pints in France arent your usuall 5% alcohol but are rather in the region of 11%-15% alcohol??

munchkin_utd

xpletiv wrote: »

You guys do realise that the pints in France arent your usuall 5% alcohol but are rather in the region of 11%-15% alcohol??

not kronenburg or the likes which are your usual 5-ish percent.
http://www.carlsberggroup.com/brands/pages/kronenbourg1664.aspx#.UZt1xrXIatY

just like juliper in Belgium, Heineken in Holland, Bofferding in Luxembourg etc etc etc.

overshoot

were you in the pubs around the grounds? it was about 5.20 a pint! considering stadiums have about 3 20minute slots to make money spread over about 3 hours (and the staff are being paid for all of it & set up/clean up time) id call those prices better than the pub equivalent.

in saying that, it was sickening the amount going to the bar during the match in the amlin final, never seen the like, they would have been better staying in the pub and forgetting the match.

xpletiv

munchkin_utd wrote: »

not kronenburg or the likes which are your usual 5-ish percent.
http://www.carlsberggroup.com/brands/pages/kronenbourg1664.aspx#.UZt1xrXIatY

just like juliper in Belgium, Heineken in Holland, Bofferding in Luxembourg etc etc etc.

Youve picked one; I was in Paris last summer, and heineken, bud, and other local ones were much higher percentage than normal, and yes were more expensive, but proportionately so. Im talking about a draught beer from a bar; they were all in the region of 11% to 14%.

CantGetNoSleep

xpletiv wrote: »

Youve picked one; I was in Paris last summer, and heineken, bud, and other local ones were much higher percentage than normal, and yes were more expensive, but proportionately so. Im talking about a draught beer from a bar; they were all in the region of 11% to 14%.

No they were not, maybe 6% max

L1011

Not a hope in hell were normal draughts over 10%.