My cruise column on the Telegraph website this week touches on how expensive it is on board Fram. I compared it with Ventura, where you could get a 33cl bottle for £1.95, while here 40cl draft beer is more than £3.50. Not the end of the world but worth bearing in mind.
But the one thing that is really cheap is the internet - six hours for £20. And it works - as anyone reading my blogs will have realised.
I paid a hefty £40 for four hours on Ventura, which was all the more galling when ashore in Rome, Florence, et al, you could have an hour for one euro (about 80p). If you wanted longer the price came down!
Here in Greenland I haven't seen an internet café and if there was one I dread to think how much it would cost. Yesterday, ashore at our first big town (with tarmac roads, a supermarket and a pub), a bottle of beer was £6.
I hastened back to Fram!
Jane Archer
Comments (2)
Not really surprising, as the cost of living, and particularly the cost of alcohol, is very high in Norway, and Fram is a Norwegian boat. However, where did the ship take on stock? Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect them to vary their prices depending on where they last loaded up.
Posted by Helen Blamey | August 18, 2008 10:00 AM
Posted on August 18, 2008 10:00
No, not surprising - especially as they would have had to take on stocks in Greenland, presumably flown over given the cost of a drink on land but history does not relate. Still hurts tho'!
Posted by Jane Archer | August 19, 2008 7:50 AM
Posted on August 19, 2008 07:50