Originally Posted by
Gaucho100K
Hiddy.... leaving shopping aside, which is clearly not of interest for the OP, I will have to ask where you eat in London and also where you eat when you visit Buenos Aires. If the OP is a normal tourist, he will want to have a nice steak. If you are saying that a steak of similar quality at an establishment of equal caliber costs the same in London and in Buenos Aires...... then someone doesn't know how to use a calculator. Maybe its me.... (????)
Compare the price of a gin & tonic in a trendy London bar full of IBankers to the price of the same drink at the hottest bar in EZE and then tell me about price equivalences...... London is a heck of a lot more expensive than EZE, even at official exchange rates. I insist, if you do an apples to apples comparison, and also compare what a standard room at a top location Park Hyatt in London versus a EZE Park Hyatt at the blue rate and then lets look at the value.....
As a further example... compare the cost at the Gaucho Grill in London to a similar meal at a middle-plus range parilla in Buenos Aires and then tell me which city is more expensive.
I did say in some respects and I did give BA the edge when it comes to hotel prices. Plus tourists don't tend to go drinking in trendy bars frequented by city bankers nor do they eat in top notch eateries. Having said that I did have a G&T in The Dorchester which cost about £12.....lucky for me by brother picked up the tab.
We ate at a fancy Italian restaurant located in fashionable Belgravia when we were in London in May. Average prices for a main course were £25 which I thought was pretty reasonable considering.
We were going to one of the better steak places but decided not to however their prices weren't unreasonable either.
It's been a while since we ate in a comparable restaurant in BA. Funnily enough we met a wealthy local landowner the other day and he was just back from London. He mentioned the cost of a comparable meal was the same in London as the meal he had in BA just before he left to go to Europe......I should say he's a bit of a stingy though.
Overall though I would still say your average tourist shouldn't think London is way more expensive than BA. Apart from the London tourist attractions that is.....they are are a rip off.