Originally Posted by
uclabruin82
This is not a joke. I live in Los Angeles and was in Switzerland for the holidays last December and always felt like I was getting my money's worth over there. Those gelato prices I looked at honestly seemed standard here in LA, Miami, NYC.
It is also limited a joke on my part. When I research American cities, the prices blow me away. I wanted to visit the 3-star restaurants in California the other day. When I look at the prices, $1000 for 2 people without wine seems rather on the low end of the range to me. If you consider that even the hotels like to start in the range of 2000 $, so I would put for 14 days certainly without flights easily $ 40,000 on the table. That is not normal! Sure, that is then top level, but there I have in each case certainly not the presidential suite. In places like the Post Ranch Inn probably the cheapest room and that is definitely not great. I found it already overpaid with $ 600.
Aman NYC is just crazy, with $ 3000 for an entry room.
Switzerland is then still quite far at the top in Europe, especially for restaurants. It is synonymous with exorbitant prices. But yes, reasonable compared to Miami.
When I think of Miami I look forward to Italy in October, there I get tasting menus in Michelin stared restaurants for under 100 €. That's perfectly fine and regularly they cook much better. It's very rare to find crap like the Amuse Bouche at the Surf Club.