If you are dining in a Helsinki hotel room, expect to part with around $42.25 for a club sandwich.
A study measuring the cost of the most popular items from room service menus from 48 destinations around the world found Helsinki to be the most expensive for travellers.
Tunis in Tunisia charged the least for room service.
Items in the TripAdvisor study included a club sandwich and the dry cleaning of one shirt; from the mini bar, costs were measured from a bottle of water, peanuts, a mini bottle of vodka and a can of coke.
The total cost of all measured items will set you back $20.39 in Tunis. in Helsinki, you would pay around five times more – $98.48.
The world’s most expensive charges for room service originate in Scandanavia, with Oslo, Sweden and Copenhagen featuring in the top ten, along with Paris and New York.
Travellers on tighter budgets would find South Africa’s prices more palatable, with a club sandwich in a Cape Town hotel costing $8.03, which can be washed down with a mini bottle of vodka at the extremely reasonable price of $2.55 – ?which is cheaper than a $2.62 bottle of water.
Australia’s most expensive city Sydney had moderately priced room service in comparison, with a total cost of all measured items reaching $53.58.
London, considered one of the world’s most expensive destinations, missed out on a top ten spot, slotting in at number 13 in the world’s most expensive list.
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Source: Kylie McLaughlin (2014). More than $40 for a sandwich: The world’s costliest room service, The Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/food-and-wine/more-than-40-for-a-sandwich-the-worlds-costliest-room-service-20140327-35jlo.html published Mar 27, 2014. Viewed Mar 31, 2014.