I'm back, and oh did we have fun!
Me and my friend were sober (I was on antibiotics, he doesn't drink), but nobody else was.
And as it's so called Little Christmas (= Office Christmas Party) time the rest reaaaally weren't sober.
We stayed at boat's Disco until it closed at 5AM so we saw quite a few things.
One person of let's say minority color (as that pissed drunk Finns extra bad) took underskirt shot of drunk Finnish girl, which she noticed.
She grabbed the phone and while screaming as hard as she could at the other person broke the phone in 2 and threw the pieces across the full boose soaked dancefloor where it got trambled...
At the end of the evening I was also asked to the dancefloor persistenly by one person, and not at all bad looking (8, I maybe 5)... too bad it was a dude.
Altough I think he just wanted everyone to dance, but I was too tired at that point.
Or he wanted to pick-pocked drunks (which he did notice I wasn't) because he kept wanting to me take his hand with always the hand I had my phone in... When I changed hand the phone was in so did he change the hand he was offering to me.
Just leaving to search for Booze, fun, Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, and a rag doll.
Still having some influensa (not flu but full blown influensa with pneumonia) symptoms but 3 days of rest with strong antibiotics, strong Ibuprofen and 2 different Astma inhalers... the fuck I'm gonna miss my cruise!!!
Won't drink alcohol due to the antibiotics but rest of the cruise should be fun... and of course I'll bring "some" alcohol back with me.
Hasta mañana!
Where are you crusing?
Helsinki
2 quotes from November topic.
Oh and I just bought bus and boat tickets to Estonia so I can go fill my booze cabinet.
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Funny how it's cheaper to buy 24 cans of beer or 2 liters of vodka from Estonia (2* 300KM on bus + 22h cruise (of which 4 hours (12 if you go discoing on the city instead of sleeping on the boat) time to visit the city of Tallin) instead of buying them from local alcohol shop, let alone if you'd live in Helsinki (no need for the bus so cheaper) where difference in price of 0.5 liters of Vodka would cover the 22h cruise.
No wonder Estonia scaled back on raising the alco tax when Finns and Estonians started visiting Latvia for the cheaper booze, instead of what Finnish coverment does = act happy when alco sales drop when taxes are raised (they act as they'd think Finns are sobering as booze bought from Estonia is not counted...).
As both Finland and Estonia are part of EU Finns can bring pretty much as much alcohol free from Finnish taxes as they please.
So Estonia gets tax money and Finland pays the negative effects of booze.
----- End of rant -----
It's cheaper to buy bus and boat tickets than booze!? What kind of taxes do you guys have over there!?
It's 4 sprong thing:
1: Difference in alcohol tax between Finland and Estonia.
2: Difference in vages (and thus price of things) between Finland and Estonia.
3: Real competition between bus companies.
4: Boat companies making most of the money on additional (but not mandatory) things like Estonia tax booze sales and food, and keep cruise prices super low to actract people on basic cruises.
Let me give explanation:
1 and 2: 0.5 liter bottle of vodka in Finland 16 Euros, same bottle in Estonia 10 Euros. = 4 bottles save 24 Euros.
3: Bus ticket can be as low as 3 Euros per trip + 1 Euro for reservation fee. = 2-way ticket + reservation is 7 Euros. Add to that inter Helsinki bus tickets 3.2 Euros per way from city center to boat tarminal and back and we're still at 13.4 Euros.
4: Cruise tickets start from 8 Euros with mini cabin.
True that the whole trip for me takes 40 hours versus less than 1 hour using local alco shop.
But take suitcase with wheels for more booze and savings are great, easily in hundreds if not thousands if you buy better whisky or cognag.
Of course one could bring more than needed and illegally sell the surplus... I won't, I'll just bring what I need for next 6 months, them do the cruise again as it's very enjoyable experience.
Or live in Helsinki from where you can make the trip in 12 hours using express boats.
And yes I brought boose.
