What's the most expensive country you've visited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:London when the pound was strong...

Also, it's not a foreign country but Hawaii is expensive.

This. Paid over $20 for four chicken nuggets at the airport McDonald’s. It was the cheapest food item on the menu.
This was many years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:London when the pound was strong...

Also, it's not a foreign country but Hawaii is expensive.

This. Paid over $20 for four chicken nuggets at the airport McDonald’s. It was the cheapest food item on the menu.
This was many years ago.

That was the London airport - LHR.

[Anonymous]

Switzerland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to Geneva, Stockholm and Copenhagen and thought Geneva was the most expensive but... $60 cheeseburger? What? Where are you people eating? There are plenty of affordable options to be found in the city. I never paid $10 for a coffee in Stockholm. Maybe 4$? A 10$ beer was for sure not out of the realm of possibility in Stockholm though.

I think a lot of this varies depending on what you’re talking about. Hotels were most expensive in Tokyo, food is pricy in Scandinavia, etc.

My vote is for London. Not a county obviously but I got used to seeing numbers that looked roughly like US prices but essentially having to double the true cost due to the exchange rate.

There are bars in DC that charge $15 for a beer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to Geneva, Stockholm and Copenhagen and thought Geneva was the most expensive but... $60 cheeseburger? What? Where are you people eating? There are plenty of affordable options to be found in the city. I never paid $10 for a coffee in Stockholm. Maybe 4$? A 10$ beer was for sure not out of the realm of possibility in Stockholm though.

I think a lot of this varies depending on what you’re talking about. Hotels were most expensive in Tokyo, food is pricy in Scandinavia, etc.

My vote is for London. Not a county obviously but I got used to seeing numbers that looked roughly like US prices but essentially having to double the true cost due to the exchange rate.

There are bars in DC that charge $15 for a beer.

Your point? I’m sure there are. I’ve never paid that much for one, but I also didn’t encounter a $60 burger in Geneva. Just because those things exist doesn’t mean they’re typical.

[Anonymous]

Iceland and Switzerland. I thought Russia would be, but prices were not that bad.

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Norway.

[Anonymous]

Kenya. Surprisingly the food and hotels were just as expensive as the US, plus we spent an absolute fortune on safari. Only thing that was cheap was taking domestic flights to the coast which was so incredibly spectacular. If you cook at "home " it can be cheap. Bought an entire tuna for $15. It was enormous!!!

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I found Kazakhstan to be on par with Switzerland and Iceland.

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England in the early 1990s when the exchange rate was 2:1

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It’s hard to compare them bc I have been to a lot of the places mentioned but the one that is absolutely insane is Venezuela. Most sane people won’t go in the current climate. When have been 3 times in last 10 years and it’s awful

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Yes, England back in the day.

I don't find Tokyo that bad apart from taxi's and, yes, you can spend virtually infinite amounts in high end restaurants. But the mid prices places are great. I don't think hotels are that bad.

Switzerland -- if you step off the main drag you can do ok there-- pricey but not crazy.

Denmark is pricey even for run of the mill stuff. Like a crappy pizza.

If I had to guess, today, I'd say Denmark.

[Anonymous]

Iceland or Barbados

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Bermuda, breakfast was $95 per person. Iceland didn't even make my top 5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bermuda, breakfast was $95 per person. Iceland didn't even make my top 5

It made our top 3 and we’ve been all over. I guess it depends when you went and what you did. 2 in our family had a private guide for a sporting activity. In the us might be $200 for the same thing...on the moderate end. There...it was $1750