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The evening started modestly enough with a bottle of Pinot Grigio, although at £25 it was on the high side of pricey. Still, it was being bought in a smart West End nightclub.

But it was as nothing compared to the final bill run up by a Middle Eastern businessman and around a dozen friends during five hours of drinking at the Crystal Club in Marylebone on Saturday night. By 5am on Sunday morning the host’s credit card was lighter by £105,805 and 28 pence.

For the anonymous customer and his party, the Pinot was a mere light aperitif. He then announced to club staff that he wanted the drinks to flow all night.

They went on to consume 36 bottles of Cristal champagne at £12,960; three magnums of Dom Perignon 1995 at £2,700; 15 bottles of Dom Perignon 1999 at £3,600: six more magnums of Dom Perignon at £4,200; a dozen bottles of Dom Perignon Rosé at £4,200; four bottles of Cristal Rosé at £2,400 and two jeroboams of Cristal at £9,600.

The party ended the session in style, with a methuselah – the equivalent of eight bottles – of Cristal at £30,000, and another methuselah of Belvedere Polish vodka at £1,400.

The businessman, thought to be based in Dubai, bought a carry-out, a jeroboam of Dom Perignon at £9,000, which he gave to his chauffeur to look after. And then came the bill. He had spent £81,471.50 on drinks, to which was added £13,951.03 in VAT, and a whacking £10,382.74 service charge.

Fraser Donaldson, spokesman for the club, said it was the biggest bill he had seen for a single customer. “However, I would say it’s typical of the spending that’s going on in London right now. I expect even this will be beaten soon.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2135493.ece

We had a story here the other day about a guy who parked at the airport to pick up a friend and when he left an hour later was charged $956.00. The parking attendant said according to the computer he had been parked there since May. They would not let him out until he paid it,even though he has a speeding ticket he had gotten the day before in the same car.

They checked into it and determined it was really an error and refunded him the full amount, so he had parked for free.

a Middle Eastern businessman is code talk for crude oil money.

And with oil money, that's chump change. :)

To go all PC on everyone ...... I think that type of conspicuous spending is disgusting. x(

There are people starving and homeless, even in the (so called) developed world. For myself it would take over 3 years to earn that amount, let alone have it spare to spend on frippery. :rolleyes:

Don't try and tell me he earned it. This sort of thing just highlights the growing differences between the 'haves' and 'have nots'. :(

A solution is cheap solar energy. The rising cost of oil is making it more worthwhile. Put a collector on your roof, charge batteries, feed into the network with your extra and take from the network when you need to. Plug your car in when you get home to charge the batteries of you H2O hydrogen powered car. You will need the petroleum, maybe, to lubricate your machines.



Ethan

"The rising cost of oil is making it more worthwhile."

I'd rather just have the gas price drop to $1.50/gallon like it was before his majesty george bush took office. That would also fix the problem. :)

Course hell ain't frozen over yet. :lol:

Anyone here remember the good life before bush became president in January 2001?

Yea
I remember Carter and double digit infaltion and mortgages

What? Carter is the one responsible for mortgages?????:rolleyes:

So when Bush is out of office you think the price of gas is going to dive?

Or you are insinuating that the price of gas is because of who we have as a president?

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So when Bush is out of office you think the price of gas is going to dive?

Or you are insinuating that the price of gas is because of who we have as a president?

I am surprised that Bush hasn't been blamed for the flooding in England .

The flooding is a result of global warming which Bush and the rest of the republicans have done little to act on. Or believe global warming is real at all for that matter.

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I am surprised that Bush hasn't been blamed for the flooding in England

Well, it just gets tedious stating the obvious doesn't it. :evilgrin:

:-)

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A solution is cheap solar energy. The rising cost of oil is making it more worthwhile. Put a collector on your roof, charge batteries, feed into the network with your extra and take from the network when you need to. Plug your car in when you get home to charge the batteries of you H2O hydrogen powered car. You will need the petroleum, maybe, to lubricate your machines.

We're building when she retires in January. We'll knock down the old house, expand and waterproof the basement and when the house goes up, we will have transpired colectors covering the entire South wall and 25% of the South facing roof.
In goes a tankless water heater and bunches of "Green" insulation-etc. The utilities will be buried and all wiring run into a small "utility" room (off the "mud room".)
The house will be about 65% "Green" and utilities (light, heat and power) are pegged at $560 year.
*Might put in a water well and not have to pay the 30% summer excess water use surcharge.

What amazed me was that they could drink so much.

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Not really, a lot of that rotgut goes straight through the system.

With a, conservative, mark up of 400% on the booze don't you find it a bit cheeky that the Crystal Club added to the bill so high a Service(?) charge!!:rtfm:

Well, the customer didn't appear to care.