Pint Of Beer £7.20 / Glass Of Wine £8.75 At The Grand National Festival!
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The Aintree Grand National horse racing festival starts today and I have just been looking at the prices of drinks.... 
Pint of beer is £7.20, Guinness is £7.50, small glass (175ml) of wine is £8.75 and a bottle of house wine is £34!
What's the most you have paid for a pint? I know prices have gone up but seems a lot to me
That doesn’t seem unreasonable. A couple of weeks ago while dining in pub we checked our bill and they charged £16 for my glass of wine, it was 250ml but that extortionate.
Suppose it depends where you go, last weekend we went to a restaurant in Cardiff for a birthday meal , a glass of wine was between £7.95- £20 depending on which one you had , a G&T £11 and a small bottle of coca coal £3.50, on top of these prices they added a 12.5% service charge. Thou the venue was lovely the service good and the meal nice, don't think we will be rushing back, thou having said that we probably would if we were well off and had money to burn.
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100% profit In Alcohol. That Is why when you go to a Restaurant or dine at a Hotel, the first thing being seated Is: What can I get you to drink. I work In Hospitality and the number of people bringing In Drinks or hiding them under the tables Is quite a lot. I don`t blame them too as the prices are extortionate. I wouldn't pay their prices. Going out nowadays Is like a second Mortgage. With everything that has gone up apart from Wages, Its cheaper to entertain at home.
Our bowls club charge £2.00 for any tin of beer .£3.00 for a small bottle of wine and £1.60 for a spirit .if a small club can do reasonable so should the big boys
Never played bowles in my life, but with those incentives, where do I sign up?
Shockingly expensive - but predictably so. I wouldn’t drink any of those beers if it was HALF PRICE, and I wouldn’t drink most of them if it was FREE!
But I suppose if you can afford to go to Aintree AND waste money on bets, you aren’t really worried about prices anyway.
Peanuts to most of the middle class race goers. I only buy my drinks from either Asda or Tesco.
The only pub I visit is pretty much Wetherspoons and you can see all the prices before you order. The idea of going to the Grand National is not very appealing with the injuries to horses anyway so I certainly don't feel I am missing out. Some people will accept high prices but to others it would be completely unacceptable and so they wouldn't go to these venues and I'm in the latter camp.
I don’t think these prices are too expensive as events like these always charge lot more cos they know you’re in that enclosure and there’s nowhere else you can buy a drink unless you’re sitting in your local bar watching it on the big screen. Here in Belfast a pints going to cost you at least £6 and that’s in a small backend bar 
. Think I’d rather get bottle of wine and some snacks and watch it from comfort of my own home with friends
Festivals have always cost a lot when it comes to food and drink as you can't take your own into the arena. I rarely go out. We had a meal out over Xmas. 3 burgers, 3 lots of chips as they didn't come with the burgers. 2 soft drinks and a tea as it was lunchtime. £50. Food was nice service good but not £50 good.
Everybody has jumped on the wagon with price increases, blaming the war in Ukraine, energy bills, wages and Covid. It is us the 'end consumer' who always pays the price, everyone else can past price increases on but we cannot, there is no one to pass it on to. The supermarkets know we need to buy food so they can charge what they like. As for the Grand National Festival I personally would not pay £7+ for a beer, that is just 'taking the micky' but I could not afford the admission charges anyway so it does not bother me. Prices will never get back to the way they were so for us at the bottom sadly, we will have to put up with it. That's the way it has always been in the UK. (Get down of my soap box now).
dgt1878 In fairness I don't think supermarkets charge what they like its a very competitive sector of the economy. Tesco sales grew 7% but profits reduced because they hadn't passed on all the price increases to customers. This may be true of other supermarkets too.
We have many strikes at the moment which will end up with large wage increases for 10s even 100s of thousands of staff which has to be paid for so the government will be looking to tax and borrow and if they borrow that forces more tax on businesses and people later which again adds hugely to costs and ultimately increases prices again.
Ultimately we are becoming a much poorer country and until we tackle our trading and financial deficit and living beyond our means these issues cannot be reversed.
I can remember years ago arguing with a barman who charged me £13 for 2 G&Ts. Nowadays you can pay near that for just one.
Our local greenking pub has kept priced relatively low, Its still £3.50 for a pint of John Smith's & around £4.50 for a g&t. When I go out for drinks to the bars in town with my pals I can easily pay almost double tho.
Would love to see a well managed campaign of everyone going there having a small bet on the horses then leaving immediately after the last race, no one willing to pay these prices. Maybe the following year they might be more reasonable....
Whenever events try to extort me on drinks like this, I always sneak in my own, on principle if nothing else. Over the years, I have got it down to a fine art. There's lots of bags and underwear available which come with pouches and straws fitted inside to hold liquid. Would rather drink crotch vodka than pay near £8 for a pint of carling
It's not right, lumping everyone in a single place where they have no access to reasonably priced shops, then extorting them while they're held captive. Especially after they paid for entry too.
Waitrose had some. Not posh btw just don't have a llidl, aldi sainsbury supermarket where I am
It's a bit like cinemas where they make almost nothing from the movies themselves and rely on revenue from the food and drinks they sell which personally I've always avoided buying. Probably here the licenses to sell there are so high that prices have to be so excessive. It could be a bid process where the sellers of food and drink there keep bidding for licenses and the process just ends up with extremely high cost licenses that are reflected in the prices they charge. In such circumstances its requires customers to stop buying these products for the cycle of higher and higher pricing to end but as long as people are willing to pay these prices then it won't stop. Same as football match tickets.
It's all about loyalty and ability to pay. If you have extremely loyal customers or you have customers with a high ability to pay then you can get away with this price hiking. Personally I don't want to be exploited in this way and be a cash cow in such situations.
As expected unfortunately always a premium. Went to the pub (brewery owned not national) on Thursday night and a pint of IPA was £4.70 and some of the lagers were over a fiver a pint. Can’t get Wertherspoons prices everywhere 
Can't understand why so many are shocked tbh;
Captive audience? 
Majority of visitors on annual jolly?
Licence to print money?
Always happened always will, even more expensive at Cheltenham, Epsom, Ascot.
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