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International beer prices

An impor­tant part of a trip like this one is bud­get­ing. Enter Pint Price — a web site that shows the price of a pint of beer in 140 coun­tries. A very use­ful met­ric indeed — the site claims to be “the only travel and short-break hol­i­day guide you really need” and I’d almost be inclined to agree.

Base­line: Aus­tralian aver­age price accord­ing to PintPrice.com: AUD $5.04 (Perth specif­i­cally shows $4.41)

Poland: AUD $2.26 (Krakow $1.79 — woot!)

Slove­nia: AUD $3.17

Italy: AUD $7.16 (Rome $8.54 — ouch!)

Ger­many: AUD $4.37 (no spe­cific price listed for Hamburg)

What this means is that Poland and Slove­nia could be very messy indeed. Ger­many will be about the same as home, and Italy… well, let’s just hope we can find some cheap pubs.

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2 Responses to “International beer prices”

  1. Gary Barber says:
    April 11, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    Italy — switch to wine! Very cheap

  2. Ben says:
    July 25, 2008 at 7:41 am

    In my tra­di­tion­ally pes­simitic ways i’ll say $5 for a pint in Aus­tralia … and four fitty in Perth. “Tell him he’s dreamin’”.

    You’d also be very hard­pressed to find a four bucks in Ger­many. When i was in high­school pints (“Hal­ber” i.e. 500ml) used to be 5 DM + .. I hope you pre-drank in Krakow :D