Tel Aviv suds among world’s most pricey
Travel site finds 330ml bottle of brew in seaside city hotel bar approaches $10, almost five times the supermarket price
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Revelers looking to enjoy the sun, surf and sand in Tel Aviv this summer may be feeling the heat in their back pockets too.
The city has been named as the third most expensive beer destination worldwide, behind Hong Kong and Geneva.
According to travel site Go Euro, which ranked 75 world cities for beer prices and per capita alcohol consumption, a standard 330 milliliter bottle of beer in the seaside city’s hotel bars costs $9.53 (NIS 36).
If that’s too much, consumers can still save their shekels by ditching the bars and heading to the local supermarkets, where a 330 ml beer costs just $2.06 (NIS 7.80).
The price of beer in a bar was calculated using the average price of local and imported draft beers in major hotel chains worldwide. Bars outside hotels generally offer lower prices.
Tel Avivians are still lightweights when it come to beer consumption, the study found, drinking only 23 liters per year (at an annual cost of $396) — far behind Bucharest with 133 liters per person per annum and Prague with 130 liters.
By contrast, New Yorkers drink 85 liters of beer a year, but an average bottle costs just $8.97 and $1.44 in hotel bars and grocery stores respectively.
The most expensive beer destination in the world is Geneva, where a bottle of beer costs $10.77 in hotel bars and $1.87 in stores.
By contrast, the world’s cheapest destination for thrifty alcohol fans is Krakow, where a beer in a hotel pub costs just $2.70, while at a supermarket, a brew sells for a meager $0.62.
The Times of Israel Community.