Spending money Barcelona

[Louis Balfour]

One of my teenage children is going there next week. We want to give them spending money sufficient to get by, not have a champagne lifestyle. How much is required for three cheap meals out and two beers daily in Barca? I am out of touch.

TIA

[Louis Balfour]

cliffords said:

We are just back from Seville, it's much cheaper than the UK. I think the 80 Euro suggestion is about right and generous.. They won't go hungry or Thirsty. I assume this is not accomodation as well.

I do however recommend some sort of in currency card though . That amount of daily cash is asking for trouble. In Seville all the restaurants preferred card when we gave them a choice but make absolutely sure you have a Euro currency card or the Bank charges mount up.

My opening gambit was Euro 50. Was I being a tight-arse?

The intention is, broadly, to pay what we'd pay for them at home. More than that is down to them.

[Louis Balfour]

DirktheDaring said:

My daughter is back, she averaged £60 a day which included meals, drinks, snacks and some tat from a market.

One of the girls in the group had her rucksack opened and her phone, purse and spending money taken, but they are struggling to work out exactly where it happened, it wasn't Las Ramblas though.

Seems to be what ours is spending. I have an eye on the credit card usage.

[Louis Balfour]

ooid said:

DirktheDaring said:

One of the girls in the group had her rucksack opened and her phone, purse and spending money taken, but they are struggling to work out exactly where it happened, it wasn't Las Ramblas though.

Sorry to hear, as I mentioned above it's pretty bad.

One of our bakeries was robbed other day, a mad guy literally just crashed his crappy scooter to the main door, broke it and stole a few things inside and run away. There was no cash inside but due to the damage, the business had to be closed for 2 days. I can clearly say, Spanish police is harsher than UK police but they are also overwhelmed by all petty crime around...

Question: Why aren't the authorities all over it?