cost of a night out

cost of night out €0 ......get other half to pay for everything

Ehh. Bus- €1.90. 6/7 drinks- €3 night- €21 at most. Normal price €5.50 a drink- €38.50. Nitelink- €4. So €26.90 or €44.40..

The Bollox wrote:

I stated already that these were exceptional circumstances. and I said that on other nights, going to other nite clubs where I would be paying more in, I still would only be spending about €50, and not double that.

So with all these circumstances such as 3euro drinks, taxis with big groups and cheap entry fee to a nightclub your total comes to 40euro but without these circumstances you have somehow estimated that your night of 7/8 pints comes to only 50euro, 10euro dearer than your original post, unless you sucking a bit of crusty hairy knob for 20euro during that night i cant see that happening. An average night without circumstances of any kind and im being very general when i make these estimates.

A few cheap cans before leaving house - 6 euro
Taxi to destination - 5 euro
Admission to nightclub - 8 euro
6 pints in nightclub - 4.50 * 6 = 27 euro
2 shots - 10 euro
buying a pint for a friend - 4.50 euro
Food - 5 euro
Taxi from destination - 5 euro

and that comes to 70.50 euro, if any one has any disagreements on this estimate let me know

rubadub wrote:

Choice of drink means a lot. Many consider german beers expensive, yet they can be the cheapest choice per unit alcohol.
In a good night I will have 8 bottles of erdingers, Last time out they were €4.70 each. So €37.60

Now that is 8x500mlx5.3%=21200 "units"

2 mates were drinking bottles of heineken, €4.60 per 330ml 4.3%, so 21200 "units" costs them €68.72

Another guy was drinking JD & coke. €2.80 per coke and I think it is €4.50 per shot, 35.5ml 40%. So for him to get 21200 units it is €108.99

So it is nearly triple the price to drink "branded" shots with full mixers in each one, and close to twice to buy long necks. And erdinger is a relatively expensive beer in off licences, and a top quality beer too.

Haha. You have a very interesting definition of a unit of alcohol!!!

Spook_ie wrote:

Fancy a good night out being dependant on how many "units" you can get per €. Why not just go straight to the meths and spend the money saved on a sleeping bag!!

All I am doing is highlighting how expensive some drinks really are, and how cheap some drinks are that some consider expensive. Many people are totally ignorant as to how much they are drinking. Some say they had "10 drinks", and see no difference between a shot and a pint of erdinger, both are "a drink". I dont like meths! and the drink I do like is considered a top quality beer and also happens to be relatively cheap, once you get rid of the unit price and look at what you are really after, the alcohol.

If aspirin was €2 for a pack of 10x500mg, or €1.50 for a pack of 10x200mg, then which is better value?

Haha. You have a very interesting definition of a unit of alcohol!!!

All you have to do is multiply/divide my figures by another number to get the more recognised "unit", but many countries have different calculations for what a "unit" is. The simplest way is just to multiply volume by %. AFAIK the UK and Irish definitions of unit are different so very confusing.

I remember hearing a girl delighted with herself for drinking 12 shots of baileys in the UK. They were 25ml shots though, 12x17%x25ml=5100 "units"

She usually drank cans of 6% cider at home. 500mlx6%=3000 "units".

So her 12 shots wasnt even 2 cans of cider!, yet she was comparing them like for like, as though 12 baileys was equal to 12 cans of strong cider.

The real problem is when a spirit drinker who usually has "10 drinks" in a night, switches to beer, and gets totally wasted on 10 beers.

If your longneck is €4.50 then you are paying €7.75 a pint, it is no secret, primary school math- yet some people refuse to believe it!

Student night out as follows:
Bottle of cheap wine: 6 euro
walk to town
Entrance to club: 8 euro
3 pints @ 4.50: 13.50 euro
food: can spend up to 7.50 (massive kebab, oh fúck I'm hungry now)

Total: 35 euro and you're pretty well on it if you get the bottle down in under 30 minutes.

Caliden wrote:

And what sort of wages do they get over there? Cost of food/petrol/accomadation?

Surely they're all not expensive which means whatever you don't spend on food goes straight into the beer pot.

Wages are better, accomodation is expensive, and food is about the same in a supermarket as in something like... Centra or local Petrol station (so more expensive, but not much more expensive) Petrol is about 1.44 a liter, taxes are higher... ya, pretty much everything is more expensive, remind me why I moved here again

Terry wrote:

Most people are just going out for a laugh. They don't really care how many units one drink has.

Many are totally ignorant about it, I am just making people aware if they are being ripped off.
Many do not care about the units but still want to get to a certain level of drunkeness. A person might have a headache, they dont care how many pills of aspirin they need, they want rid of it, so they will keep taking 200mg or 500mg pills until it is gone. Some people will keep drinking until they are where they want to be- then they wonder where the €100 went to- ignorant to the fact that all drinks do not have the same amount of alcohol in them.

Terry wrote:

I drink beverages that I like. I don't drink them purely for their alcohol content.

I love erdinger and it happens to be quite cheap, though many consider it expensive. I usually only have 4-5pints as it is so strong. I do drink for the alcohol content too. I like the taste of club orange but will not drink 5 pints in a night just for the nice taste.

The Irish are obsessed with alcohol so there would be mass riots if the price of a pint reached 9 Euros.

I was in a pub where some longnecks were €5.50, that is over €9 per pint, almost 9.50- didnt see any riots though.

Caliden wrote:

I dont get shots really. They're only 1 unit of alcohol and even sometimes less if you get baby guinness and the likes yet they're the same price as a pint.
I'll stick to my manky pints thanks

In my local they charge €4.50 for a baby guinness, they consider it a cocktail! so charge more than a baileys (which would be 50ml) or kahlua on its own. Contains less than 1/3 the alcohol as a proper guinness, costs the publican far less too, yet people still pay more for it than a normal pint. And trying to argue that a barman has to carefully pour it since it is a "cocktail" doesnt wash, more time is spent pouring a guinness.