A Club Sandwich in Geneva will cost you €27.90 (31.24 USD) according to the Club Sandwich Index 2.0, - Polidicks

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/P2JlAFL.png?1[/IMG] [QUOTE]LONDON - The [B]Hotels.com[/B] [I]Club Sandwich Index[/I] (CSI) continues to uncover the dining costs of hotels worldwide with its annual price barometer, the Club Sandwich Index. This year, the elevated report by Hotels.com - the CSI 2.0 - added three more hotel dining items to make the Index a more comprehensive indicator for guests to understand the costs associated with a full day of hotel dining in hotels worldwide. Bogota bags best bang for buck while Geneva offers a more pricey menu Based on findings from the CSI 2.0, Geneva is not only the priciest city for a club sandwich, but the Swiss city has also topped the charts as the most expensive destination to enjoy a full-day hotel dining experience (£56.53), while Bogota, Colombia is the most value-for-money destination with an average price of £19.60. The improved CSI report incorporates the prices of four main dining options available to hotel guests throughout the day: A Club Sandwich for supper A burger meal, consisting of a burger, fries and soda for lunch or dinner A cup of coffee for teatime A glass of house red wine for post-dinner drinks The average prices are calculated from real prices (including taxes and fees) paid by guests for all four items in 30 hotels, in the capital or an important tourist city of the 28 countries surveyed, across 5-, 4- and 3-star hotel categories. While hungry travellers can get the most bang for their buck in Bogota, which clocked an average dining cost of £19.60, Rio de Janeiro (£22.28) and Buenos Aires (£26.26) also gave the Colombian capital a run for its money with their affordable dining costs. Hotel guests in South Korea paid the most to get their caffeine fix, with Seoul dominating the list for the priciest cuppa at £6.34 on average. Interestingly, patrons to a 5-star hotel in Paris found it more expensive to indulge in a glass of house red wine (£15.01) than club sandwiches in 19 other cities, including New York City, Dublin, Sydney and Berlin![/QUOTE] - See more at: [url]http://www.traveldailynews.com/news/article/66846/club-sandwich-index-2-0-uncovers#sthash.uCiCXKzZ.dpuf[/url] Who the fuck will pay 31 dollars for a club sandwich. Anyway, hotel food prices are grossly overpriced, I used to intern at the Marriott hotel, and a Club sandwich was like $19 or something. Chicken curry was $20, and it was just typical mass produced curry.

Big cities, big prices. Easy enough to remember.

You'd think it'd be the opposite with all the competition.

[QUOTE=Megadave;48083721]You'd think it'd be the opposite with all the competition.[/QUOTE] People probably don't look at the cost of items on the hotel menu when determining which hotel to stay at. They look at the quality of the restaurant and the accommodation rating. If I was looking at hotels to stay at I probably wouldn't be bothered to look into which restaurant, with all else equal, has coffee that's $5 instead of $6

who the hell uses hotel prices for comparison lmao a cup of coffee in Singapore costs like US$0.90, you can get a meal with drink for US$4 or less if you're not a posh hipster who only dines at restaurants.

do Swedish people order their food online to save money?

[QUOTE=Megadave;48083721]You'd think it'd be the opposite with all the competition.[/QUOTE] Ever tried to get a semi full of supplies into a big city though? It's sort of harder and more expensive to keep a restaurant running in cities

I knew a swiss girl from geneva she always talked about how everything was extremely expensive

I prefer the Big Mac Index where even the initials are BMI

[QUOTE=Sableye;48083938]Ever tried to get a semi full of supplies into a big city though? It's sort of harder and more expensive to keep a restaurant running in cities[/QUOTE] The suppliers are generally on the outskirts of town. Deliveries to individual restaurants happen on smaller trucks for the reason you listed, and also because a restaurant doesn't need an entire pallet of broccoli. The exception is large shopping centres but there's a reason those seem to always exist near offramps.

fucking hotel prices. I was about to scream at what kind of hamburger meal are we ordering that its $30

[QUOTE=Ithon;48083790]do Swedish people order their food online to save money?[/QUOTE] Most Swedish people don't live in expensive hotels in Stockholm.

[QUOTE=Coffee;48083982]I knew a swiss girl from geneva she always talked about how everything was extremely expensive[/QUOTE] Pretty much everything is expensive here compared to our neighbour countries. Food for example is about 2-3 times as expensive here as it is in Germany for the same items. No wonder why people prefer to go over the border to Germany to buy groceries rather than go to the local supermarket.

Interesting how dutch red wine is the 2nd cheapest of all countries

Tip to getting good/cheap food in any city Step 1: Find where their chinatown or small family owned takeaway/dine in asian foodcourts are in the city centre Step 2: Eat there

[QUOTE=En-Guage;48085202]Tip to getting good/cheap food in any city Step 1: Find where their chinatown or small family owned takeaway/dine in asian foodcourts are in the city centre Step 2: Eat there[/QUOTE] kinda defeats the point of going on vacation if you're gonna eat chinese takeout though just don't eat at tourist traps

in my town across from uni I can choose between malaysian, vietnamese, korean, japanese, all kinds of stuff and get fantastic food for under eight bunks with normally a free drink because I'm a student Just because it's cheap, doesn't mean it's bad.

This is why I stay in hotels with an active restaurant scene nearby. Why eat the shitty hotel food when you can go get something better next door?

[QUOTE=En-Guage;48085247]in my town across from uni I can choose between malaysian, vietnamese, korean, japanese, all kinds of stuff and get fantastic food for under eight bunks with normally a free drink because I'm a student Just because it's cheap, doesn't mean it's bad.[/QUOTE] it's not bad but it's still a pretty big waste of money to travel to a different country to eat food you can find in any city

[QUOTE=Ithon;48083790]do Swedish people order their food online to save money?[/QUOTE] That's way more expensive than going there and buying it yourself.

Jesus, that's extortionate pricing. Not even movie theaters and concert halls go that high.

London street food is amazing, especially in Covent Garden. Prices are also decent.

I don't really recognize these prices they show in the Netherlands & I've been to Amsterdam several times... Eh?

[QUOTE=Siemz;48085997]I don't really recognize these prices they show in the Netherlands & I've been to Amsterdam several times... Eh?[/QUOTE] Did you go to hotels in Amsterdam? And eat at them?

Bear in mind when you're on holiday you kinda stop worrying about the price of things

they say average, but I never pay a price that exorbitant. they should create a proper average of what you should EXPECT to pay. All these fancier hotels just drag the average up, but realistically, most people won't go to those places and never pay these prices. 36 euros in Berlin total cost? That s a load of bullshit, a hotel that charges that would just lose out to local restaurants. Most people pay about 4 euros for a kebab, and a decent one at that. The whole thing is just bullshit based on all the places I've travelled. It does not provide me with good information Also it seems a bit weird to do this all in Canadian dollars

[QUOTE=Antlerp;48088236]they say average, but I never pay a price that exorbitant. they should create a proper average of what you should EXPECT to pay. All these fancier hotels just drag the average up, but realistically, most people won't go to those places and never pay these prices. 36 euros in Berlin total cost? That s a load of bullshit, a hotel that charges that would just lose out to local restaurants. Most people pay about 4 euros for a kebab, and a decent one at that. The whole thing is just bullshit based on all the places I've travelled. It does not provide me with good information Also it seems a bit weird to do this all in Canadian dollars[/QUOTE] You've completely missed the point, this article is about comparing the prices on the menus at hotels, not the prices between hotels and other local restaurants. It literally is what you should EXPECT to pay if you EAT AT A HOTEL.

[QUOTE=Megadave;48083721]You'd think it'd be the opposite with all the competition.[/QUOTE] Big cities tend to adopt more liberal economic policies so that may drive up the prices significantly Plus you have a few assholes here and there whose businesses exist to prey on tourists EDIT: Shit, this is talking about hotels, no wonder Yeah now come to think of it even though cost of living in these cities generally is high, you can still grab a decent hot dog off a street vendor for a reasonable price

[QUOTE=Antdawg;48091253]You've completely missed the point, this article is about comparing the prices on the menus at hotels, not the prices between hotels and other local restaurants. It literally is what you should EXPECT to pay if you EAT AT A HOTEL.[/QUOTE] I think you missed what he meant. He wasn't saying to bring the price of outside restaurants into this, he was saying that if the food costs at hotels were indeed that high, they would lose business to local restaurants. Basically, he feels that the article is inaccurate.

[QUOTE=En-Guage;48085202]Tip to getting good/cheap food in any city Step 1: Find where their chinatown or small family owned takeaway/dine in asian foodcourts are in the city centre Step 2: Eat there[/QUOTE] The best way to know where to find good/cheap food in the city is to see where people go for lunch. Seriously, there's no better metric. In particular on a workday without kids.