kwren

We're sitting in the Zurich airport now on our way home from Dublin. My husband wanted a Coke but came back to report that it costs 3.9 Swiss Francs, an incredible $4.41 for one bottle!

Guess we'll just wait to get on the plane!

We got one for 1 euro in the Dublin airport this morning...$1.36. A much better deal!

suec1

Yes, pricey but most airports are. My daughter and I had a relatively simple meal in JFK, salad and pasta entree - about 40 bucks.

IMDonehere

Yes, airport prices are stupid.

But sometimes people get thirsty between Zurich and Dublin.

BTW, great TR.

NewbE

Oh for heaven's sake!

Your title is deceptive: you bought an expensive Coke in an airport, which is not the same as saying that all Coke in Switzerland is expensive.

Secondly, what percentage of the cost of your trip did $4.41 represent? No, really, I want to know, so I can gauge how many tears to shed for you.

hetismij2

NewbE - I think the post was meant humorously.

kwren - have you been to Norway?

Jean

"No Coke. Pepsi." -- John Belushi

Pepper_von_snoot

All airport food is expensive, but I have travelled to Zürich many times and can tell you it is one of the most expensive places on earth for Americans to visit.

I walked out of the Starbucks at Tram Square/Limmat when I realised a small coffee was the equivalent of $6 US.

Ask your husband if he liked riding on the Moo Cow Train at Zürich Flughafen.

Thin

Josser

Seeing the subject line. I thought don't buy the revolting chemical tasting stuff anywhere.

chartley

It may be expensive, but it will be all coke, not two-thirds frozen water.

IMDonehere

Jean

It is "No Coke, Petsi."

bilboburgler

Don't buy Coke. Still to taste the stuff. I tried Pepsi when I was desperate and almost vomitted the (unknown ingredients) up. Still I tried Dr Pepper once which was worse.

IMDonehere

I had a taste of Switzerland and I am not going back. No taste for something that rich.

swandav2000

Well, I just spent a few days going in/out of Atlanta airport -- a bottle of water was almost $3, something like $2.69. And there were many free water fountains, too. Can't imagine anyone would buy them.

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Andrew

I spent a few hours walking around Zurich (day trip from Germany) in April. I didn't spend a cent in Zurich - I didn't even get currency! I stopped into a Starbucks (clean, free bathrooms!) and noted that a venti hot chocolate - what I usually pay $3.45 for in the US - cost 8.40 CHF (about $9.50 USD). So yeah, Zurich at least is a very expensive city, not just at the airport!

Zurich was charming city, however.

PalenQ

Switzerland has expensive prices on everything - not just Coke at airports - I bet a coke in a cafe would be about the same price.

Switzerland is fab but it is so so expensive.

NewbE

OK, I read the OP three times again and I still don't see that it was meant to be humorous. Not deadly serious, certainly, but it's a complaint, and a silly one, at that. Surely by 2014 we are not reduced to discussing the price of Coke in an airport??

IMDonehere

If that many people can't decide whether it is funny or not AFTER the suggestion that is is supposed to be funny, than it is about someone complaining about the price of a Coke, which is a lot of money if not accompanied by a rolled up dollar.

Dickie_Gr

" have you been to Norway"

In Tromso, the guests of the hotel sneaked into the staff room to use the vending machine as coke was only £4 a bottle.

FHurdle

A Coke in most American airports costs about $3 from the newsstands and maybe $4 from the bar.

NewbE

So we are going to discuss the price of Coke in airports. Okey dokey...