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29 Comments
Really? But how will you feel festive without a big curry sausage and a cup of hot wine for the price of £23
I tend to find the repetitive and devoid of any real local feel. It’s the seems to be the same overpriced Cadburys hot chocolate stand and German sausages, all while being over crowded
Used to travel to chatsworth one every year, the parking on last go was over 20 quid. Bollocks to that
Some people must like them otherwise they wouldn’t be so popular
What’s more festive than Pound store tat at extortionate prices…
Maybe spending £9 on a hotdog from a guy who has just pissed in a bottle and not washed his hands.
Merry Christmas
>beer – at £12 for a pint
Is that normal in Birmingham?
£12 for a bag of ‘festive’ fudge as dry as a nun’s chuff.
They are only good if you have kids. No way i’d go to one out of my own volition. Overpriced beers and absolute tat
Ours is terrible. Its depressing seeing all the same tatt that was rolled out last year.
The one nearest me is pretty bad. It’s the same stalls, selling the same stuff, in exactly the same positions year after year. Probably three quarters are just local businesses where you can get the same stuff 365 days per year.
Christmas markets are the classic case of something quaint from elsewhere being exported here for heavy commercial exploitation – the same goes for Oktoberfests.
In Central Europe these markets have history and mean something, in the UK they’re just a shameless cash-grab.
Christmas markets = fun, Christmas markets that have a sole purpose of ripping people off = not fun.
This isn’t hard.
Because like everything, they’re all the same, every year now. If I really wanted to go to one, it wouldn;t be one of the tacky ones we have here, I’d go to Germany or Austria and do a proper one.
Events like this are self-selecting. If the trader’s don’t make enough money, they wouldn’t happen. So, if like me, you don’t like them, you aren’t the target audience. Stop moaning and accept that not everything has to be for everyone and, as a general rule, is better if it isn’t.
The saying ‘Fools and their money are soon parted’ comes to mind.
About 10-15 years ago seemed cool and new, now they’re industrial and massively overpriced.
Typical case of something fun being ruined by greedy people.
I’ve been to a proper German Christmas market in, well, Germany, and it was quite nice (and not that expensive). It also felt more authentic.
The ones here (Bristol is my nearest) always feel quite forced and like some kind of commercialised cash-grab. Literally just overpriced crap and overpriced food and drink at this point.
They can be good, but often there’s little difference year to year. My local one in Cardiff has quite a few local stores selling genuine local products. However, after going for 5+ years now, it’s nearly always the same stalls selling exactly the same stuff as the year before.
They’re all run by events companies rather than individual stall holders, dreadfully trying to emulate continental european traditional markets. Better off finding a village hall near you with a charity jumble sale, mulled wine made by a little old lady and a tombola.
Sometimes when I feel subby I go to one of these markets to get absolutely shafted and fucked over. Yes £12 pint, take me.
The one in Bristol is absolutely shite, much like the surrounding retail area anyway.
The Telford “Christmas” market always seems to be the least festive thing I’ve ever seen. Pretty much the same wood effect shacks that get brought out most of the year just with tinsel.
Over priced tat, big sausages and nothing remotely different. Last year they had some kiddie fairground rides, and the market was dead. Asked how much it would be for my 5 year old twins to go on the merry go round as they weren’t busy. Was told that I needed to buy each of them a wrist band for £15.
Did not and will not go back.
There’s nothing more festive than armed police marching around a Christmas Market, waving assault rifles around. Its an ancient British festive tradition.
I remember going to Edinburgh Christmas market in 2017. There was a stall selling these metal twirly things. They weren’t cheap.
The exact same metal twirly things were being sold online, new, for a tenner.
Maybe Christmas markets used to be good, and each city had their own unique take on them but now? It’s literally all the same shit. I blame the local councils for wanting to capitalise on the trend and charging extortionate rents. Why bother being unique, or sell something you cant get elsewhere when you’re paying the council heavily for the privilege.
I’m dreaming of a make believe world that runs more on good will than profit but…
I would love Christmas markets that were all about handcrafted, traditional and seasonal goods. Handmade wreaths, historical meals, grottos for kids etc and at reasonable prices. But who has the money or the time to make that happen?
Would be nice though.
The ones in Austria are great and feel historic and authentic – ours are bored minimum wagers handing out heated up mass produced ‘mulled wine’ or semi disguised burger wagons selling their ‘bratwurst’ 500% higher than when it’s just a hotdog the next week.
Like most things in the UK, the experience is soured by its cost.
Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park just feels like an empty soulless husk of a place these days…
Christmas markets have been shite for as long as I can remember.
Paying £5 for a mug of store bought mulled wine or a tenner for some Iceland bratwurst hot dog has never been a tempting prospect. The fact they start them in early November is ridiculous.
Ban event companies from participating, make it so only individual independent stalls are allowed and make the rates reasonable so they don’t charge 3x the price to pay for the spot.