[Closed] Cost of an average night out

Depends if you are talking about going out for a meal as well, but that sounds very high to me. Maybe they are all including drugs/hookers in that figure?

£100? What the hell are they drinking?

What part of the country ? £100 sounds pretty high to me 🙂

£20, once a month for me. Buys four/five pints and a bag of scratchings in the local. Not fussed by anything more flash or pricey at my age.

I took £30 out (told myself once it was spent I was going home, lolz!) for the last works do, meal and wine payed for plus 5 or so drinks at the various bars before it started getting "shotty", it was awesome opening the online banking the next day to discover I'd debit card'd a further £60 😛

3 day hangover.

The time before (Xmas do) I took £20 out knowing I wouldn't need much money but made the same deal to head home after spending up...came home with £12 😕

3 day hangover.

For a proper night out I'd probably budget £100, I only drink about 3/4 times a year and like to kick the arse out of it!

Twenty quid will get me half a dozen pints and a pizza on the walk home, and leave me with change.

In't the North brilliant?

10-11 quid for a pint here

Probably £40 to £50 with a bit of cheap pub food

In't the North brilliant?

My old man was telling me there'd been a kick off at the Working Men's club recently as they'd put the price of a pint up to £1.30 or something equally daft!

pint at the local - £3.13, pint at the bowling club - 40p cheaper.

just go after a monster day on the bike and £15 is more than enough (if flying solo) these days...

village life.

I think it's a sign of getting older when you consider how much it will cost instead of just going along with it. For me buying a single pint at over £5 is tragic when I could buy 4 cans of Stella for less than that. (& might be having a better time at home drinking them by myself)

£20-£100. I've been having too many of the latter recently so this weekend I'm going nowhere. Well, maybe out for a ride.

10-11 quid for a pint here

😯

Is your local Pacha in Ibiza?

It's very unlike me in so many ways, but as a single man when I go out, £200 usually gets pulled out of the cash machine after a pint or two. I become irresponsibly generous on a night out. Don't know why.

That said, I've not been out since I bought [s]this hell-hole [/s] a house.

I am out in June though, in Blackpool. I do not know how this will go. Badly, I suspect.

Blackpool (weekend) is an easy £300er minus "B&B", advice, don't get generous at the strippers!

You can easily spend a £100 just on booze and club entry...beers, shorts, shots adds up pretty quick. Especially if someone is drinking red bull vodka or starts doing silliness like jaggerbombs (actually quite nice).

Add in food and taxis, maybe a spin at the casino / snooker hall / dancing ladies place and you'll easily be spendin £200. Last stag do I went on a chap who was skint, been made redundant was last seen telling all his mates to piss off (for the umpteenth time) as the strip club closed and he bought another round of champagne for the girls...I'm told he isn't allowed out much.

I can't remember, it's been too long 🙁

seriously though, my [i]last[/i] "night out" was an expensive do:
2x tickets for Foo Fighters @ Manchester
1x hotel overnight stay
2x meals in hotel
2x breakfasts
2x Foo Fighters t-shirts
2x gallons of diesel to get there & back
beer (me) & wine (her)

Is your local Pacha in Ibiza?

The Cardinal in Stavanger

maybe a spin at the casino / snooker hall / dancing ladies place and you'll easily be spendin £200.

Exactly that 🙂

An all day number is over a £100 easy.

When did red bull with vodka and jaegermiester become expensive? They're usually the ones on deals for those that can't get away from pop

Depends where I guess. I went out in Camden the other week and all in it was probably about £140 (including trains, hostel etc). For a normal night out round here it's about £50-60 with taxis.

Meal for two: £50 up.
If we're both drinking, booze: £50-60 (proper night out in Oxford/Wallingford.)
If we're both drinking, taxi home £10 to £30.

Food is the main variable. Can be over £100 easily.
Evening costs are split though. Or at least we rake turns.

Thursday night pub ride, £20 in the kitty, 4-5 pints and cheesy chips, may need to top up the kitty if we stop for another pint.

Twenty quid will get me half a dozen pints and a pizza on the walk home, and leave me with change.
In't the North brilliant?

That same twenty quid won't buy you 4 pints of shandy in Harrogate. £5.30 a pint in one establishment. Then in my mums local near Huddersfield, a fiver a pint, again for shandy, same price as a full beer.

£100 is about right for going 'out' out, assuming the gentlemans club is given a wide berth. If not, all bets are off.

Ended up in a night club a month ago. I reckon I spent £30 in total. I had far too much to drink (£1 shots in a bar before the club). I got a kebab on the way home too.

That was in Oulton Broad (Lowestoft) though. I expect if I did the same night in Bury St Edmunds or Norwich I'd spend much more.

I know people who can spend £100 in a night. They tend to buy big rounds or move onto expensive shots early on. They also tend to my mates who we worry drink too much......

If you ever go to Oslo or Hafjell bike park it's 12-15 quid for less than a pint. Was thinking of having my stag do there. 'Whose round is it?'

£100 is about right for going 'out' out, assuming the gentlemans club is given a wide berth. If not, all bets are off.

Even at £5 a pint you're not going to spend a £100

Cost of an average night out

Like most things as I stretch the gap away from my 30's, TOO BLOODY MUCH! £100 for a night out is nuts. That's a bit of bling for the bike, or a hefty load of wood to burn. Crap when did I suddenly get old?

Is there such a thing as an average night out? A few pints and a bag of crisp at the local and a fancy meal followed big night with 4am finish at a flash nightclub in a major city and taxi back or bed for the night are poles apart.

Even at £5 a pint you're not going to spend a £100

Who says I'm just buying beer? Admittedly it won't always be that much, but that's how much I budget for/start the night with.

So give us an idea then what your average night out is.

Drac - Moderator
£100 is about right for going 'out' out, assuming the gentlemans club is given a wide berth. If not, all bets are off.
[b]Even at £5 a pint you're not going to spend a £100[/b]

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With taxis, fags and a takeaway at the end of the night I'd be more than happy to only of spent £100!

Hmm! Maybe that's it then as I walk and don't smoke so won't spend anything like a £100 more like £40.

Spent over £100 last time I went out in the wonderful place that is Maidstone. Beer, curry and JD mostly. I was pretty hammered by the end and I quite sure I was receiving drinks from friends because I'd spent all my cash. I didn't use my credit card because, thankfully, I'd forgotten I could.

Does the £100 include a babysitter?

Depends on where and when....
$100 Australian is easy beer is 8-15$ for 2/3 pint chuck in some food and it gets close to £50.
If I go somewhere in the city it can go up further with a taxi in the mix.
Throw in a sit down meal and the £100 mark can be hit.

Get yourselves an ulcer... You can remove anything fun from your life.
No drinking, smoking, anything remotely spicy or fatty/greasy , chocolate, caffeine.

Unfashionable part of the borders and its £1.70 for deuchars ipa. Can get pretty hammered and finish off with a chippy for £25. The same sort of night in edinburgh was easily £100+.

Two drinks in Newcastle, cocktail for Mrs Crumb and a 330ml bottle of Peroni, cost me £12.50. The barmaid had a right face on too.

Ok that's not average. Thursday night pub sees me spend a tenner if its my turn to by chips.

it also depends if I find someone to buy a drink for

For me an average good nights is probably £50-60. That includes dinner and drinks afterwards and the bus or a wobbly cycle home. I'm too tight to pay for taxis or go to flash restaurants.

I have been on a couple of £100 nights out this year with folk from work. Going out and drinking is a big thing for some of them and the money soon racks up.

8 drinks over the night at an average of £4 = £36
Some food somewhere = £10
Entry to some club or a hour or so in the casino = at least £40
Taxi home = £20

You know it was a good night when the loose change in your pocket > value extracted from cash machine before drink 1.

Some seem to be struggling with the word average.

Regular Thursday evening at our local, regional Camra pub of the year last year ,with four or five mates £20'a head max. £25 if it's peeing down and we get a taxi home.

I'm getting old.
Fridays nights are music nights for us.
Usually a decent pub/small band with up to £10 entry fee.
Last night we did a 120 mile round trip, left at 7pm, home at 1.30am.
£20ish petrol, 2.5 pints between us, 2 packets of crisps, free entry,total cost - around £30, and we had a truly excellent night with a great band.
I think I would be bankrupt if I spent £100 every Friday or Saturday night.
(The Straight Aces were the band if anyone likes R&R/Rockabilly)

Average depends on your perspective. I don't do "a couple of beers down the local midweek" as all of my mates have families and are spread out round the country, so an "average" night out for me, which is roughly monthly involves food, beers and tends to be a whole evening thing

Yup that's average as that's what you do but the "Well it depends if i go for a curry, night clubbing I even sometimes might to the casino" that makes it none average if it's a might.

Beer, cocktails/shots, snack, club entry, more beer and shots, kebab, taxi. Easily do £100 in Leeds on a night out. Unless you drink in the angel!!

If you're going down the pedantic route surely an average night would be a careful study of every night out ever divided for ease of calculation into

Transportation
Sustenance
hydration
entertainment
extra curricular activities

Sum all the totals to find a percentage
To give an average night?

If you wanted to go to the real extreme yes but that would be silly.

For me, £100 would be a fairly spendy night out if it was just on alcohol out.
However add in travel, club/bar entry, pre-drinks, food or accommodation and I'll be way over.

100GBP is about right for food, bars and taxi, my last night out in the UK (in that there London Town) cost me over 250GBP and I got a train back to my mums after.
That was for cocktails, food i a fancy restaurant and train fare though so no to bad

£100 is about right for going 'out' out, assuming the gentlemans club is given a wide berth. If not, all bets are off.

There are no gentlemen in those clubs

There are no gentlemen in those clubs

Might be a few entertainers who used to be, though.

Last time I had a fun night out I took my hip flask and had 'just a coke please'.. Bit managed to spend a fortune as I was so impressed with my thriftiness I kept buying others drinks....!

DrP

Classy look DrP...

Been long out of Uni?

Curry buffet about £20 including one drink then another £20 for drinks later on. Total £40. 😆

can I also say the average nights out are not the ones we remember

I once spent £180 on a night out in Edinburgh, but that was a bit of a heavy night. Usual night is £100+ with no meal. There is a reason I have given up on alcohol.

I'm "out out" tonight and reckon I will spend:
About 10 drinks at £4.50 each ish.
2 x taxis at £10 each.
Entry to a club £10 (though I'm trying hard to avoid this).
Food at the end £8.
So that's £83 without thinking.

Add in a few excepted costs and it's easily a ton and often more.

All nights out start with a babysitter so that's £30. Normally it'll be a couple of beers and a bottle of wine with dinner followed by a nice whisky after dinner and another couple of drinks. Only in married, so everything past the baby sitter is x2. Normally very little change out of £200... I don't go out much!!

Having said that, very happy to go to the village local and spend £30 coming back rat arsed!

Been out tonight £10.

I went out with three girls ftom work and bought them a drink each ..£47 inc my £5 bottle of Peroni.

I asked why cocktails were soo expensive and they replied laughing that I was out of touch and they often paid that on a night out. I.e it was pretty standard and if a bloke was taking them out..

Thank **** mrsH feels 'done'after two glasses of wine.

Slightly ot but to combat the prices some girls drink a bottle of wine getting ready to go out.

A £14 Cocktail?

I think you got shafted there Hora.

I think you got shafted there Hora.

I'm pretty sure he didn't.

Some girls buy rounds on bottles of champagne

Last night out i saw three bands got pissed and had change from a tenner 😀
It was this month as well- the bands were free
Beer was £1.50 a can
I can drink three
I bought some others for friends hence I did not leave with a note

One mate had to be carried home

I used to live with a guy, who was a well paid journalist for a local paper. He lived in his mates house for around £100 a month bills included, and didnt own a car, have children, a girlfriend or anything really.

Reasonable wage. Zero outgoings. He was always stone cold broke, cause his "mates" from the rugby club used to drag him out pretty much every night of the week and they all got shit faced on Kangeroo piss.

It can be done.

An average night 'out' out, roughly once a month....

Bus into town £3
Start on beer, probably up to 3 pints before I get bored of beer. £3-5 each.
Double spirit & mixers or Long Island iced teas (cocktails are for girls? Not this one.) ~£7 each. Between 5-10 depending on how the night is going/how long we are out for.
Jägerbombs ~£3.50. 3-4 of those.
Entry to nightclub £5-10
Takeaway £15. I'm drunk.
Cab home. £10

Plus assorted drinks for any [s]easy targets[/s] pretty ladies I might come across. Ahem.

Per person;

Drinks only evening £10-20
Nice dinner £50
Theatre and drinks £75

Have got to the stage where generally we eat and drink at home with friends. Food better and wine much better quality for the price.

I went out with three girls ftom work and bought them a drink each ..£47 inc my £5 bottle of Peroni.

What the hell were they drinking, HP printer ink?

Cocktails are surely the worst way to drink in this country. You pay double figures for half a pint of fruit juice with homeopathic levels of spirits added.

Cocktails are surely the worst way to drink in this country. You pay double figures for half a pint of fruit juice with homeopathic levels of spirits added.

Hence the Long Island iced tea for me. All the white spirits with just enough sours and cola so as it doesn't taste like aviation fuel.

Just done a stag day in Manchester last Saturday , and spent from 1pm till 10 in Castlefields outside Barca ,spending the grand total of £66 , including £9 on a sandwich , the fist pint was £3.90 then rose by 20 p every hour , when it hit £4.50 it was a quick change to Long Island teas .. No hangover the following morning for me even with the black Sambuca chasers

We went to the Camden Rocks thing at the weekend, I got through £80 of cash and also put £25 on my CC for dinner. Plus £25 for the ticket, paid ages ago.

The cash spend included £12 for a travelcard & £10 for a taxi late in the evening when we missed the last tube. D'oh. Oh, and £8 in Burger King for lunch. That leaves £50 for drinks which doesn't go far when you're looking at ~£5/pint plus whatever silly stuff you add. So:

£22 travel
£33 food
£50 drinks
£25 event ticket

Total: £130.

We went to the Camden Rocks thing at the weekend

I'm guessing that's probably not your average night out though?

Classy look DrP...

Been long out of Uni?

Yeah...but old habits die hard!!

DrP