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Welcome to San Stefanos (NW Corfu) => Where to eat out in San Stefanos? => Topic started by: amanda on August 07, 2010, 04:32:54 PM
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We have not been to SS for 3 years, what sort of price would we expect to pay for beer, wine and food these days. We may book the Voulas in Sept.
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Large beer 2.50 euros - although when i say "large" they're mostly 0.4L, so about 70% of a pint!
1L Carafe of Wine with meal, averaged about 9 euros.
2 courses, averaged about 10-12 euros, although some menu specials you could get a couple of courses for under 10 euros.
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thank you
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All reports say the same and about the same as last year.
Three years ago it was a bit cheaper, but not a great deal.
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We hadn't been for 2 years, came back this week. It was a wee bit pricier - especially on spirits etc in supermarket - maybe the 23% VAT? On the whole still thought it wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be - certainly a lot cheaper than Kefalonia where we went last year!
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Prices are OK - you will be able to get sloshed without breaking the bank for sure - - LOL!!
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anyone who has just got back, notice the price of ciggies now.
we were there in may and prices had not gone up but Aspa Sam and his Dad told us it was gonna happen very soon - we go back on sept 17th - just wondered if they gone up ???
cheers
p.s this is not an excuse for all you anti smokers (mentioning no names) to start either !!!!!!!! lol
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Think we paid about 38 euros for 200 in the supermarket - tho can't be 100% as hubby went and got them
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At the end of june or beginning of july everybody was putting up their cigarette prices. No idea from € or to €.
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Aaaaah! so glad I don't smoke and never have, an extra holiday every year,
no yellow lungs, no yellow wallpaper and ceiling, no smelly house, no smelly clothes,
and no wacking great bill at the shops!! LOL
(Ok - I know!! p-leeeeese don't do a chain of replies - smokers need it or enjoy it and will anyway!)
I don't want to start another post war - - - but hey!! it was fun to say it!! LOL
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I will not rise to Tony's provocation. Really I won't. I won't.
IT IS PROHIBITED FOR NON-SMOKERS TO COMMENT IN THIS THREAD. THERE IS A £7,000,000 PENALTY. IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS IT, GO OUTSIDE AND STAND IN THE RAIN. THE PSYCHIATRIST GENERAL HAS DETERMINED THAT NOT SMOKING MAKES PEOPLE INSUFFERABLY SMUG AND BORING.
Good. That's cleared the air.
Cigarette prices are controlled in Greece and are the same everywhere, so there is no point shopping around. As of mid July the pack of 25 GRs in front of me cost 3.2 Euros. A pack of 20 Leader cost 2.4 Euros. Non-Greek fags cost a bit more, but not a huge amount. We always buy the local fags to support the local industry and because they're cheaper and because you can't get a good Greek accent without the special quality of phlegm in the back of the throat that you get from the brilliant weed they've being growing since the dawn of civilisation (or its arrival from America, whichever came first).
In the UK 2009 statistics reported an average 52 pubs closing a week because of the non-smoking ban. The Greek response to their non-smoking ban has been to ignore it and carry on as usual.
Vive la Grece!
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It was too much for you Jim - wasn't it! LOL
We had a massive amount of postings on the subject last year and we ended up agreeing to disagree!
So I didn't want it to light-up again!! But It's great to breath some fresh air!
In my opinion, Most Pubs closed because of the Drink-Drive repercussions - more so than smoking.
I no longer use them because I can't get there easily, or on the rare occasion,
I find I can only have 1 drink! I used to go to pubs all the time before! and - the prices!!!
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ha ha, thank you JIMBO !!!!
Tony - behave and go sit on the naughty step
i was only asking about prices - thanks folks for updates
roll on 3 weeks friday !!!!!
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I'll ask Joe - barman and sabbatical physicist at Little Prince - to send me a definitive fag price guide.
Very important to remember that you can bring back at least 3,000 cigarettes per person. In the crazy world of smoking logic, you can justify the cost of the holiday in relation to what you would have spent on ciggies if you hadn't gone.
And finally: No Tony - the steep decline in pubs is NOT the drink/drive. Statistically it follows the smoking ban - or what we could otherwise describe as the prohibition on doing something perfectly legal, which generates vast amounts of revenue, irrespective of the wishes of the owner or landlord.
My view is (in the UK) either ban tobacco completely or accept the right of people, including landlords, to make a choice. Anything else seems to me to be hypocritical.
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Ha-Ha - Jim! only a smoker would say that - the great divide - eh!!
LOL
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Much as I hate to agree with tony... I agree with Tony....
(Can't believe I said that)
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Say what, exactly?
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Jimbo being a smoker myself, there is a new campaign to reduce some prices (according to local TV) on some brands. At moment you can buy 28 in 1 packet PallMall Blue for 3.50 euros......Marlborough though are 20 for 3.80 euros, still cheaper than UK I believe? VAT is till 23% so hopefully prices will stay as is for a while in Greece. Smoking ban is meant to be happening again with more gusto but so far seen very little (if none) evidence of this ???
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Thanks, Lesley. Effectively at least (most?) half-price compared to the UK.
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Stressed - Tony will be delighted to have somebody agree with him at last, but what was the point you were agreeing to?
* Fact: the no-smoking ban is a major factor in pub closures. Check the statistics.
* Fact: tobacco revenues from VAT and duty are currently £10.5 billion per annum. That equates to approximately 10% of the NHS budget.
* Fact: the cost of obesity to the NHS is over £45 billion per annum. That's about 45% of the budget.
* Fact: the purchase of tobacco is legal in the UK.
Conclusion 1: in a society which claims to be "free" and support individual "freedom" it is anomalous to ban something in one context which is illegal in another.
Conclusion 2: pubs should only be allowed to serve light salads, and these should be consumed outside
It's impossible to defend smoking or alcohol or many of our pleasure drugs as such, but it is possible to defend our freedom to do what is legal. I fear for our future when what is deemed bad by centralised committees rules every aspect of life. This decade smokers - next decade eaters.
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Ahhh! but who say's they are facts Jim?
Think about it!
Pubs were being closed everywhere - - - long, long, long - - - before the Smoking Ban arrived in Pubs, as well you know - * Fact!.
Society changed (for the better), when the Alcohol Limit arrived and we could not drive home drunk!- and with little public Transport at that time of night.
Pubs went out of vogue for many people, when you realise you don't actually miss most of them.
The price is also a huge factor - (not to just the customers), greedy breweries with tied pubs are a big factor as well, Landlords could not earn a living and gave the Pubs back!
People went on Holiday and loved the different type of Bars there - but back home a lot of pubs are C**p, it's warm beer, and too many spit & sawdust rough pubs.
Apart from a small section of die-hard pub lovers, people go to the big four Supermarkets, or day-trips to France, and drink at home as well, I know - we do!
* Fact = Black is White said Mandleson, who changes the truth at will!
Facts are manipulated by people - i.e.
The Labour Party influenced these so called facts - that's the lot who ''spin'' everything ever spoken,
* fact - - believe any politician and you are in deep trouble! LOL
However Jim - you seem to be at it as well,
where is the *Fact - - - - that smokers cost an even bigger percentage of the NHS Budget?
- so why did you miss that one off? what is the true cost of that?
I notice you quoted obesity because you noticed I carry a beer-belly - - - very subtle!! LOL
Heart surgeons don't want to do Heart op's when you smoke!
I have become quite an expert on the Heart Problems over the years,
problems associated directly with smoking (* proven Fact), as my wife had a Heart Attack at age 42, because of smoking.
as "Quoted" from the very respected Mr. Charles Isley, now head of the Famous Harefield Hospital, also now a family friend and originally my wife's consultant.
Over to you!
Meanwhile - I'm off on my train - - Puff -Puff -Puff -Puff -Puff!!
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Fair enough, but...
Latest NHS costs:
* smoking £1.4 billion
* obesity £4.8 billion
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boys, boys , boys !!!!!!
blimey, i only asked the new prices and war has broken out..........LOL
each to their own opinion i say !!!!!
***scurries off to hide after starting a forum war ********
ha ha ha ha
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Fair enough, but...
Latest NHS costs:
* smoking £1.4 billion
* obesity £4.8 billion
Hi Jimbo
We all know statistics can be manipulated to make a point.
I have just looked into the smoking costs to the NHS and have come up with the following.
Smoking cost 1.4 to 1.7 billion. at the last full audit in 1991.
A partial audit in 2005-2006 came up with a figure of 5 billion by adding up the costs of all the smoking related illnesses.This does not include illness caused by passive smoking.
27% of male deaths are smoking related.
I do not think it is correct to compare smoking with obesity.I have no problem sitting in a pub next to someone eating a burger.This unlike being sat next to a smoker will not affect my health.
I defend everyones god given right to commit suicide by smoking but I draw the line at taking me with them.That is why I welcome the ban on smoking in public places.
As for putting pub closures down to the smoking I do not agree.I put it down to the ever increasing cost of a pint plus the ever decreasing standards of a large number of the customers. Whose behaviour and language make it somewhere I would not wish to take my wife.The worrying thing about this behaviour,it is now treated as the norm.
Yammas
Yannis
Ps Sharris posted while I was writing this .Dont worry Sharris this is a debate not a war .Trust me I am an expert on forum wars.The one thing you are correct about it should be taking place in the Yammas bar, as it is no longer San Stefanos related and has moved a long way from the original thread.As this is the case I will make this my one and only posting on the subject.
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I used to smoke and share my noxious fumes with all and sundry. Strangely I never smoked in restaurants but I do find secondary smoking very off putting.
This debate reminds me of a court case not too long after the smoking ban became law. A lady while out on the town had to walk through a dozen or so smokers in the doorway to one establishment. After breathing in their fumes she decided it would only be fair to share her favourite drink with them. She share 2 pints of beer with them and was heavily fined for assault with quite large costs due to dry cleaning bills. Why didn't she prosecute for the cost of her dry cleaning bills to get rid of the kipper type odour?
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Yannis is right. This is not the place.
The original question was about prices. The debate was NOT started by the smokers. The statistics for secondary smoking are utter evidential rubbish!
Personally, I am if not offended by gross people eating four times as much as me, but I am somewhat disgusted.
Enough.
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Yannis is right. This is not the place.
The original question was about prices. The debate was NOT started by the smokers. The statistics for secondary smoking are utter evidential rubbish!
Personally, I am if not offended by gross people eating four times as much as me, but I am somewhat disgusted.
Enough.
Thanks Jimbo
Yammas
Yannis
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And thanks from me as well - it was fun but as you rightly say - the wrong place - Yammas to all!