The most expensive cities worldwide to drink a beer

Switzerland: According to a ranking released by GoEuro, Lausanne in Switzerland ranks as the most expensive city in the word to drink a beer, where a 33cl bottle of beer costs a whooping $17.60. Can you beat that?
So if you are on a business trip to Lausanne, you might have to think twice about drinking an evening beer on your company’s tab in one of the city’s bars as eyebrows would certainly be raised in the account department.

Lausanne located on the shores of Lake Geneva, is the city with the highest beer prices in the world.

The website compared the price of local and imported draft beer in hotel bars worldwide to compile their ranking.
If you find yourself on a business trip, or a visit to Lausanne, it might be wise for you to visit one of the city’s supermarkets where a bottle of beer costs only $1.42 on average by comparison.

Hong Kong also charges exorbitant prices for alcoholic drinks in bars with a 33cl beer coming in at just over $11 on average.
Paris and Zürich follow with beer prices in bars averaging $10.08 and $10.03 respectively.
New York is the only US city to make the top 10 of GoEuro’s ranking with a 33cl beer in a bar costing $9.22 on average.
Rome and Tel Aviv round off the ten costliest places to drink beer worldwide with both charging just over $9 on average.
There is a huge difference with the cheapest cities for beer drinkers, the majority of which can be found in Eastern Europe.
Bratislava’s bars charge as low as $2.80 on average for a 33cl with Kiev and Cape Town coming second and third for the world’s most affordable brews.