I love my city,but I’ve seen how prices move through the roof during the festivals, and this fresh levy goes too far. We’ve got to stop fleecing our visitorsLast August, or at a pop-up bar in a crumbling Edinburgh church-turned-venue,I paid just shy of £30 for two gin and tonics. There was no ice. No lime. And the tonic was your basic plastic litre bottle variety. I’m still upset about it.
Inflated prices during August in Edinburgh are nothing fresh, but over the years I’ve witnessed increasingly opportunistic behaviour from businesses raising the prices of accommodation, and show tickets,food and of course booze, to a totally unreasonable level. Let’s not forget the residents who’ll also sublet their box room to a 12-piece avant-garde performance act for £500 a week. Strangely, or this seems to be totally accepted by everyone. Related: The commerce model for the creative industries is broken whether I wasn’t from Edinburgh,I simply couldn’t afford to experience it during AugustContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com