Greater Manchester is a huge area with many different pint places. If you're after a cheap tipple you'll probably want to stay away from Spinningfields, but if you want a fancy cocktail named after a George Orwell character than it's probably a great choice.
In fact, if you want a cheap pint it's probably best to stay out of Manchester altogether.
You pay almost a third more for a pint in Manchester than you do in Bolton.
An analysis of thousands of Wetherspoons pub menu items has revealed the priciest places to go for a drink in the country. The Reach Data Unit scraped their app to find out the cost of a Heineken, Foster's and Carling in each pub. These were then averaged out to generate a pint-price index for each area.
Manchester’s nine Wetherspoons - The Moon Under Water, The Paramount, The Seven Stars, The Waterhouse, Wetherspoons, The Gateway, The Great Central, The Sedge Lynn and The Ford Madox Brown - charge an average £3.27 for a Heineken, £3.32 for a Foster's, and £3.38 for a Carling. That works out as roughly £3.32 for a lager overall. Presuming that prices are in line with the local competition, that makes Manchester the most expensive part of Greater Manchester to go for a drink.
The second priciest area was Trafford, where locals can expect to pay £3.09 for a lager.
Tameside was the third most expensive place to go to a Spoons in Greater Manchester (with The Society Rooms and The Ash Tree charging on average £2.99 for a Heineken, £2.90 for a Foster's, or £2.90 for a Carling).
Bury was the fourth most expensive (with The Art Picture House and The Robert Peel charging on average £2.97 for a Heineken, £2.59 for a Foster's, or £2.79 for a Carling).
If you want to get as much beer for your buck as possible, it might be worth making the journey to Bolton - the cheapest part of Greater Manchester for lager. The Spinning Mule and The Robert Shaw charge on average £2.97 for a Heineken, £2.07 for a Foster's, and £2.52 for a Carling.
However, the cheapest Spoons in Greater Manchester was actually The Thomas Burke in Wigan (averaging £2.29 a pint) - though other pubs in Wigan were more expensive.
Overall, Crawley is the most expensive place to go for a drink in the UK. It costs an average of £4.50 to go for a lager there - with three out of the four Wetherspoons in the commuter town charging £4.95 for Foster's and Carling and £5.15 for Heineken. It was followed by City of London, Westminster, Camden and Solihull.
