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The lowest and highest prices for each of the 15 commodities surveyed differed by between 50-87 per cent:<\/p>\n \n\n\n| ITEM<\/td>\n | \n Lowest price<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Highest price<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | % Cheaper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Kids\u2019 aqua\/jelly shoes<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach : \u00a32.15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Majorca: \u00a310.21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 79%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Bucket & spade<\/td>\n | \n Crete: \u00a31.63<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Nice: \u00a38.17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 80%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Inflatable lilo<\/td>\n | \n Ayia Napa: \u00a31.63<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Porec: \u00a38.83<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 82%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Mask & snorkel set<\/td>\n | \n Crete: \u00a32.04<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Porec: \u00a311.04<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 82%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Suncream (200ml SPF15)<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach: \u00a33.87<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Majorca: \u00a313.57<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 71%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Insect repellent (50mil)<\/td>\n | \n Crete: \u00a32.04<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Sorrento: \u00a37.35<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 72%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Ice-cream (Mars\/Magnum)<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach: \u00a30.86<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Nice: \u00a33.27<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 74%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Sun-lounger (half day)<\/td>\n | \n Marmaris: \u00a31.52<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Nice: \u00a311.44<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 87%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Pedalo (1 hour)<\/td>\n | \n Porec: \u00a33.31<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Orlando: \u00a318.15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 82%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Bottle of beer\/lager (caf\u00e9\/bar)<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach: \u00a30.64<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Nice: \u00a33.10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 79%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Glass of wine (caf\u00e9\/bar)<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach: \u00a31.29<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Orlando: \u00a34.23<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 70%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Bottle\/can Coca-Cola<\/td>\n | \n The Algarve: \u00a30.82<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Nice: \u00a32.66<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 69%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Small pizza\/pasta for 1 child<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach: \u00a30.86<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Majorca\/Algarve: \u00a34.90<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 82%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Portion of chips\/French Fries<\/td>\n | \n Sunny Beach: \u00a30.64<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Nice: \u00a33.27<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 80%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Family meal<\/td>\n | \n Costa del Sol \u00a332.60<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Sorrento: \u00a365.36<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 50%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| Water Park – Europe<\/td>\n | \n Marmaris: \u00a338.14<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Ayia Napa: \u00a390.16<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 58%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Andrew Brown\u00a0said: \u2018With the evidence we found of overspending, the best advice is to plan well ahead and set a realistic budget for the resort you will be visiting. Once that budget is set, change money before leaving home and remember that there are improved exchange rates in our branches and online for transactions worth \u00a3500 or more \u2013 the average amount that holidaymakers spend while abroad.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Currencies for the Post Office Travel Money\u00a0Family Holiday Report<\/em>\u00a0destinations surveyed are among 30 available on demand at 1,600 larger Post Office branches, while over 10,000 offer euro over the counter and 4,000 offer US dollars and Turkish lira. More than 70 currencies can be pre-ordered at over 11,500 Post Office branches or online at postoffice.co.uk\/travel for next day branch or home delivery.<\/p>\nCustomers can purchase foreign currency in small as well as large amounts at Post Office branches across the UK – although higher rates are offered for bigger value transactions, both in branches and online.<\/p>\n Families can compare resort costs at\u00a0www.postoffice.co.uk\/familyholidays2014<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a9 Post Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Powerful pound helps prices plunge in most top European family resorts Sunny Beach, Bulgaria and Costa del Sol are again cheapest for families Biggest falls of over 26 per cent come where restaurants have cut meal costs says new Family Holiday Report (www.postoffice.co.uk\/familyholidays2014) Resort spending rises 16.5 per cent and two-in-five bust the budget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":6730,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[288,142,287,283,286,6,123,153,285,284,148],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-resort-ayianapa","tag-resort-bulgaria","tag-resort-corfu","tag-resort-costadelsol","tag-resort-crete","tag-resort-majorca","tag-resort-marmaris","tag-resort-nice","tag-resort-porec","tag-resort-sorrento","tag-resort-sunnybeach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | | | ![\"\"](\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_72137122.jpg\" "\\"shutterstock_72137122\\"")
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