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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
Night out is so open to interpretation.
Living in London I can go down to the local wetherspoons and have a decent drinking session for £20 (iirc Brewdog is under £2.50 a bottle) or I can go an spend more than a sensible amount on a meal and few cocktails and an uber ride home.
Just depends on the night out as it always has - don't think the world has changed that much, just grew up a little, go out less and expect a little more from a night out.