Cheapest Destinations

[Foreigner]

Sri Lanka beats Viet Nam, Bali, Thai destinations, according to this report on best value:

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/sites/default/files/Long Haul Report 2012.pdf

 

[StevePER]

I'm surprised they managed to find anywhere more expensive than Australia.

 

[penegal]

This doesn't appear to be a particularly academic comparison... But interesting to see where the chavs are headed nonetheless.

 

[eastwest101]

Yeah - note that they used Darwin as their Australian sample point - not really fair in my opinion.

And I am no expert in South Korea - but can anyone confirm that Seoul is more expensive than Darwin for that basket of goods??? That does not seem right.

 

[casanovawa]

I would have thought Switzerland and places like that would be more expensive than Australia... I remember hopping off a train in Geneva in 2008 i think it was and went to a maccas and paid the equivalent of about A$20 for a lousy fillet-of-fish value meal!!!! I think the A$ was tracking at about US$0.48 back in those days so it probably didn't help....

 

[xt_20]

I don't believe a 3 course meal in New York is cheaper than Penang, Malaysia!

 

[eastwest101]

Yes indeed - and the price of sunscreen in Costa Rica looks like its a typo to me as well, and a big enough typo to make the results of Costa Rica almost meaningless.

A very poorly researched document....

Good idea - terrible execution.

 

[richie9x]

I don't believe a 3 course meal in New York is cheaper than Penang, Malaysia!

I would agree if it was a meal by itself. But on that list it was a three course meal with a bottle of wine. All wine is imported into Malaysia and there is a pretty high sales tax on it. So it is quite believable that a three course meal with a bottle of wine would be more in Penang.

 

[geordieladinoz]

I would have thought Switzerland and places like that would be more expensive than Australia... I remember hopping off a train in Geneva in 2008 i think it was and went to a maccas and paid the equivalent of about A$20 for a lousy fillet-of-fish value meal!!!! I think the A$ was tracking at about US$0.48 back in those days so it probably didn't help....

Switzerland and Denmark were particularly expensive when we were there back in December, Switzerland more so. German friends there often travel back across the border to stock up to save some cash as do a lot of others apparently.