Spain - Costa Del Sol/Gibraltar Discussion Forum

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Bus fares have gone to 1 euro coffee 1 euro the pound is now 97 cents and it is raining. Bring plenty of money, if you like the night life.
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Hope it changes when I go in august, I am booking my holiday with thomas cook on 23/01/09 to the las palemras again, half board cheapest deal at the moment..
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There is so much competition in Fuengirola I am sure the British bars will need to take action to keep their prices competitive this summer.
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euro now 1.09, hopefully going to get better. we go in april and i have my £'s ready to change but dont know when to do it. i feel like a stockbroker but with only £500 instead of millions! hope i do better than they have been recently! ;)
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Saw 1.02 euro to GBP yesterday in Fuengirola. Things are looking expensive. Over 2 quid for a sliced loaf.
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you can get 1.09 atm,prices are coming down on the seafront,saw breakfast for 1.95 in the bar next to the manila bar by the yaramar,1.50 for a pint in scots and irish and on the port there is a battle going on,best value seems to be the marina bar offering free food!!!
(bogof,pie and chips 3.50 instead of 7 etc but thats what the board says)

if there are any brit bars left,the prices will be cheaper than last year for all you grockles
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£2 for a sliced loaf is true if you want English (imported) bread. However you can get decent sliced loaves for well under 1€ in most of the Spanish supermarkets. If you want Uk food then you will have to pay a premium for it, but there's usually a good Spanish equivalent.
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try Pan de Molde, about 88 cents in the big supermercados. It isn`t as sweet as most Spanish sliced bread. It is the nearest thing in taste to British bread.
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or you could ask your friendly brit bar owner to get you one,1.20 a loaf,failing that if you see a freskisol van get it off them,they do whole meal as well,johnsons bread
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I shop in Mercadona or Alcampo and I haven't seen any bread as cheap as 88cents. I can buy nice baguettes for 75 cents but they are small and only last one meal. Mercadona sliced is about 1.20 but small. A kingsmill is 2.20 and lasts about 3 days. BTW Kingsmill is only British style it is baked by Pampati but it doesn't have that cloying sweetness of Spanish bread.
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The 88 cent loaf is smaller than the Kingsmill etc.
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Out there last week, and saw the Prickly Pear at Fuengirola Port offer free drinks with all food served. I have never seen Fish Alley so quiet. A week last Sunday night, when we walked from the Aroma to Adrian's Cafe, we never saw one person eating out. I estimate those we could see eating in numbered about a dozen. Extraordinary!
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So how much is a pint of lager then? Where's the cheapest?

cheers
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The cheapest I saw in Fuengirola was 1.50e a pint, a few bars down from the Versalles Buffet. Might be a few more in the port. In Benalmadena (where I was staying at the time) Fagin's and Sinatra's were 50 cents cheaper than that. A few bars in Montemar were one euro, too.
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Thanks for replying...Are any of these near los Boliches, Ronda IV hotel?

(never been before)

cheers
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I walked past Ronda IV just a few days ago, and remember seeing a few bars near there selling beer at 1.50e a pint. Maybe Cheers and Sticky Fingers? Search around when you arrive - they are out there!
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Was walking on the Paseo Maritimo today, seems to be a lot more people around than in January even though the weather was poxy, pouring down most of the time.
Can't help with the cheap beer places, only UK bar I go in is the Old London for the footy on a Saturday and that's closed until Valentines Day.
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i doubt the prickly pear will be there much longer,or so im told,prices will come down more,tho i think a euro a pint as it has been in benalmadena for years is desparate,it may reach that in fuengirola port soon

1.50 in scots and irish,never thought i would see that,when i had my bar (sold 3 years go)i was the cheapest on seafront at 2 euros a pint as i got 10 free barrels off san miguel and kept the price as it worked

fish alley is bad,i think a lot of the places cant even afford to put their toldos back up after the refurb
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