A global price survey by Deutsche
Bank Research set the average price for a two-night holiday in Kuala Lumpur
with a stay at a five-star hotel at US$480.20.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — Malaysia
ranks as the cheapest country to have a high-end weekend getaway, costing
tourists less than half of what they would pay in Singapore, a survey has
shown.
The global price survey by Deutsche
Bank Research titled “The Random Walk: Mapping the World’s Prices 2015” set the
average price for a two-night holiday in Kuala Lumpur with a stay at a
five-star hotel at US$480.20 (RM1,775.54), which includes the cost of four meals,
two snacks, car rental for two days, two pints of beer, four litres of soft
drinks or water and some shopping on the side.
It is also lower than the average
price of US$541.80 for a similar stay in Kuala Lumpur last year, when the
Malaysian capital lost out to Mumbai as the cheapest luxury destination in 2014
with a weekend rate of US$505.60.
Mumbai’s 2015 average went up
slightly to US$507.70, placing it a close second to Kuala Lumpur, according to
the Deutsche Bank Research survey published yesterday.
The cost of a weekend luxury stay in
Singapore, meanwhile, worked out to US$1,126.90, making it more expensive to
visit compared to Melbourne (US$943.90), Berlin (US$1,117.70), Hong Kong
(US$1,079), Cape Town (US$1,050.10) and San Francisco (US$1,087.40), among
other cities.
The most expensive city to visit,
however, is Sydney, where it is estimated to cost US$2,164 for a luxury weekend
holiday.
The figure trumps London, which will
cost US$1,748.50 for a weekend visit, and Paris where a weekend of five-star
treatment will set you back US$1,530.90.
Kuala Lumpur is also one of the
cheaper cities to have a “cheap date”, with the price averaging at around
US$34.40 and is not too far off from Mumbai, which is the cheapest place to
have a date at an average cost of US$24.70.
The survey defines a cheap date as
inclusive of cab fares, McDonald’s burgers, soft drinks, two movie tickets and
a couple of beers.
The average cost of a date in
Singapore is around US$62.80, while the most expensive city for couples to have
a night out is San Francisco at an average cost of US$104.60 followed by Tokyo
(US$103.50).
Likewise for a packet of Marlboro
cigarettes, Malaysia ranks in the lower half of cities surveyed with smokers in
Kuala Lumpur spending US$3.50 on every purchase.
The cheapest smokes are currently
sold in Moscow (US$1.35) followed closely by Manila (US$1.36), while the most
expensive are sold in Melbourne (US$18.45).
Also considered cheap in Kuala
Lumpur are movie tickets, which will cost cinemagoers US$4.04 per ticket. The
cheapest place to catch a movie is again Mumbai (US$3.80), while watching the
silver screen in Melbourne will cost you US$14.61, the most expensive of all
the cities surveyed.
Deutsche Bank Research noted that
while price trends over its three previous surveys have not changed much, such
as in the case of Australia being consistently the world’s most expensive
country, the gap in prices between countries has narrowed as an effect of
exchange rate movements.
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