I love coffee! We just bought a new bean to cup machine to take to Spain with us and were just talking about how much we spend on coffee. Tend to have 3 cups a day and we use a 250ish gm bag of beans in less than a week. A bag over here can be £2.50 - £4.00

How much is it in Spain (Especially N Costa Blanca) and does anyone know of anywhere where you can bulk purchase (enough for a month at a time)

It will be at least half price here from any supermarket, but I dont know about bulk buying.
You should of got your machine here, I bet they are also a lot cheaper.

I was going to .... but I'm an impluse buyer!

In Whittards it was £399, on ebay it was £250 (and probably in Spain it would have been half of that)

In my experience, white and electrical goods are no cheaper in spain and sometimes more expensive.

Yes, we bought our washing machine in the UK and transported it, but we bought our fridge / freezer in Spain .... the prices were about the same in Spain as UK. TV's also I noticed are much of a muchness.

Of course the advantage of buying in spain is at least you have the warranty there

Can you buy a dvd player for 35€ ?
Or 42 inch plasma tv for 1140€ ?

Coffee machines vary from 40 to 400€ sort of mini to rolls royce

Most manufactures offer European wide guarantees these days. But purchasing in Spain means you don’t have to change the plug!

Ian & Irene

Get an adapter from the 100 pesata shop

Coffee is quite cheap here but Arabica beans which are the best are hard to find. I did find them at the a small store I pay 5 eruos.

As Mitzy has bought a rolls royce of a coffee machine, I guess that's about right then.

I hate to be cynical but don't pay cash for items needing a warranty. I bought white goods where they took all my details, NIE the lot, and I paid cash - so theoretically I should have been on the system. When I returned about a month later, I had to go through the same process as I didn't exist on the system. That's not to say I wouldn't get warranty back up but it did make me wonder??

I generally only buy on credit card as you get that extra bit of protection.

He`s right about the coffee, I`ve only had one bad cup and that was in an English bar I am sure they made it out of Camp liquid, sort of gravy and chicory mix.
Most of the Spanish bars make excellent coffee, 1€ a cup.

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Where can I but a decent coffee machine and I do mean the good ones that do everything, I am sure jdr might have the answer here for me

pwwm

Some advice .... be very careful of what you buy and make sure you get a decent 2 year warranty on it. Steer clear of the digital machines if you are going for the bean to cup machines. I've read numerous reviews of machines leaking after about 6 months.
The one I bought was about the most reliable from what I could tell.

Try ebay for machines ... you get them a lot cheaper on there (saved £150) but again steer clear of these catalogue return companies that are operating on there. They only give a limited 6 month guarantee.