Christmas market branded ‘rip-off’ for charging £13.50 for a beer and a hotdog

The UK’s biggest German-themed Christmas marketplace has been branded a ‘rip-off’ aft opening the play with inflation-busting terms rises.

A regular bratwurst and a pint of brew astatine Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market 2024, which started connected Friday, outgo £6.50 and £7 respectively – prices much astatine location successful cardinal London.

Each point has gone up by 50p since past year, which, astatine astir 8%, is an summation much than 4 times higher than wide ostentation successful the aforesaid period.

A inexpensive snack isn’t precisely an enactment either, with a information of chips costing £4 and a container of roasted nuts astatine £4.50.

Punters besides accidental immense queues person been caused by caller rules banning customers from buying much than 1 portion astatine a clip – adjacent if their chap drinkers are wrong show of staff.

‘This volition beryllium the archetypal clip successful 10 years I’m not going to bother,’ said regular visitant John Beard, 35, from Perry Barr.

“It’s a operation of the rip-off prices and that 1 brew regularisation is conscionable daft. You tin queue for fractional hr determination easy truthful sometimes you privation to treble up.

‘It’s a measurement to halt radical getting drunk, but where’s the amusive successful that at Christmas? If radical privation to get merry, fto them. There’s ne'er immoderate occupation up there.

‘For what it costs, it’s truly not worthy it due to the fact that it’s perfectly rammed and you’re conscionable lasting astir it the acold essentially. The stalls are the aforesaid each twelvemonth too.’

Trevor Smith added: ‘The past clip I went determination I got a hotdog and coffee, outgo maine 15 quid. I said to the bloke, what portion of Germany you from? He said Tipton.’

Some items person not risen successful price, specified arsenic half-pint of brew (£4.50), blistery cocoa with Baileys (£7), ail breadstuff (£4) and crepes (from £4.50).

Others stay fans of the attraction, which was crowned the UK’s champion Christmas marketplace successful 2023 and eighth-best successful Europe.

‘I deliberation it’s amazing, it’s the champion clip of the twelvemonth and it’s truly entertaining. It’s erstwhile a twelvemonth and I travel each year. I emotion it, I do,’ said Tony Jones, besides from Birmingham.

“Everybody is truly happy, it’s a large atmosphere.’

 Chloe Flynn added: ‘It is costly for the beers, but due to the fact that its German brew you don’t adjacent request that galore to get drunk.’

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