In answer to the thread title, I think the price is too high but the cost is too low.

Now I will post alittle more seriously.
If people are prepared to pay these prices, then why should the prices change?

If all Supporters of the clubs who travelled to france did not drink from any pub in perpignon, then maybe they would change the pricing. But lets be honest, people are not going to not drink all weekend are they? It does seem some see the weekend as the main reason to drink.


Personally, I have been to Perpignon once, and don't see it as anything extra special, and the world is too bigger place to spend my money going there every year. If some chavs see it as a good weeked to get drunk and get upto their usual antics, then I would reccommened (sp) Blackpool over Perpignon.


I will no doubt visit again, but for me, it is not a priority.

Supply and demand, market forces, call it what you will. When you have a few thousand Northerners turning up demanding several gallons of lager, you'd be an idiot as a local bar owner not to take advantage of that.

France has a far different culture towards drinking than we have in the UK and, in a city centre bar, those prices are fairly normal as the French tend not to go on ale-fuelled weekenders.

Perhaps it's British supporters who should engage more in the local culture?

wat am tring to say is if the prices were lower more poeple would sit down and eat and drink thous incuraging more people to do so i think if a pint was 4 euros it would not be so bad but 7 is a stupid price in these difficult times

Difficult times?
Do you only get 1pound pocket money a week now compared to the fiver you used to get?

Try Paris or even Barcelona, you wont get as much change from a €10 note.

If you're struggling for cash, then the €250 flight / hotel fee is probably more of a concern that a €6 half litre of lager.

People don't get more / less hungry just because the prices are higher or lower, nor does the price of a drink affect people's thirst levels. If a bar is charging too much, then the lack customers and empty tills will let them know that.

Look at the exchange rate then think about it would you if u was 18would u pay 7 euros for a pint when the pound is nerly the same 7 euros is almost 7 pounds

Shut up.

Why the need to spend the whole weekend drinking half litres (they don't sell "pints" on the continent) of lager?

I've said it before, why not try engaging in some local activities / cultures?

Well it looks like stupid people like u who live in big mansions and drive fast cars think 7 euros is pocket change but to people who follow leeds and save for half the year in the middle of a credit crunch and try to go to catalan to wach a game for a weekend brake they dont want to pay though the nose to have a relaxing drink in a sporting atmospher with a sandwich in there hand dont want to be riped of by some french person who thinks that we will get every penny out of these british fools sometimes i wich we let the germans win cos beople likew u would be in consantration camps

Go away you boring troll.

worlds best come back not

I've said it before, why not try engaging in some local activities / cultures?'"

Johnwilliam you may as well just keep digging your self a bigger grave, you are embarrasing yourself, you cant spell and them "french person" are there to make a living they are there to charge alot of money, thats their job. And the last thing you said about the concentration camps is below the belt!!!!!

It was thoroughly deserved.

You are talking crap.

Who has said that they'd be happy to pay €7 for a drink? At the end of the day, the people with the supply will sell at whatever price they feel that they can get away with. It happens in every business in every country in the world. Why should a bar in Perpignan be different?

The only freedom that you have to change that price is the freedom to take your business elsewhere.

Oh, and I bet that I can have a good weekend in Perpignan, have a few drinks and not pay €7 a pop (I know because I've done it).

I'm glad that people like the OP wont go because of it. Its these kind of people who spoil it for others.

fine i give up if u want to pay that price fine by me

It's not fine by you though is it?

Otherwise you wouldnt be bleating about it.

Like I said i'm glad you're not going.

Whos op?