{"id":173391,"date":"2012-04-05T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=173391"},"modified":"2012-04-05T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:48:19","slug":"portugal-cheapest-place-to-dine-in-eu-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/04\/05\/portugal-cheapest-place-to-dine-in-eu-poll.html","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Cheapest Place to Dine in EU: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Post Office\u2019s most recent Holiday Barometer study has found that Portugal is the cheapest place (in Europe) for a family of four to eat and drink out, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theportugalnews.com\/cgi-bin\/article.pl?id=1158-3\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Portugal News reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2012 Barometer, a three-course meal in Portugal for a family of four with coffee, beer, and Coca-Cola costs \u00a344.14 (about $70 USD). In Spain, the same meal would cost around 17.5 percent more (\u00a353.51 or about $84.75) while in Italy the bill would be about two-and-a-half times more, ringing in at \u00a3114.65 (about $181.60).<\/p>\n<p>The Post Office Holiday Barometer survey compared costs at six top international resorts, including Torremolinos in Spain and Albufeira in the Algarve.\u00a0\u00a0A spokesperson said: \u201cHard-up families planning a break during the Easter school holidays will find that there\u2019s intense competition to attract British holidaymakers. Portugal is now a lot cheaper than its neighbour Spain which will surprise a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven hard-pressed Greece is not far behind when it comes to paying for a meal out. Yet it still cannot compete with Portugal on price.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Post Office\u2019s most recent Holiday Barometer study has found that Portugal is the cheapest place (in Europe) for a family of four to eat and drink out.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[40188,40189,27751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}