The pint of the price has risen by just 60p in three years at the world famous race track, and there are more places to grab a tipple than ever before
Brits are gearing up for the booziest Grand National Festival ever, with more options than ever before to enjoy a tipple at the track. Some 150,000 racegoers will descend on the world famous course in Merseyside over the full three day race meet.
And this year punters have more choices than ever to whet their palate with the introduction of a brand new Boxpark and new pop-up pub, ‘The Rose and Crown’. As well as a record number of watering holes, organisers have also introduced a DIY Guinness station where revellers can pour their own pint of the black stuff.
More than 160,000 rounds of drinks will be bought over the three days, including 10,000 bottles of Prosecco, 8,000 bottles of Champagne and 25,000 cocktails. But it comes as research showed punters may be trying to smuggle booze into the course in perfume bottles and hip flasks.
Google searches for these items have risen by up to 46.5 per cent this week in Liverpool, new data claims. This year an estimated 600 Merseyside Police officers, with additional racecourse security, are working to keep punters safe with searches as you enter and there are even drug amnesty bins at the gates.
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But research by Tipman Tips, the UK’s largest football and horse racing betting tip subscription service, analysed Google search data to see how punters try to smuggle alcohol in.
It revealed Liverpool-based punters’ Internet searches for smuggling in alcohol into the Grand National Festival have risen by as much as 46.5 per cent this week with ‘hip flasks’ by far the most Googled smuggling item.
From 2021-24 in Liverpool, the most Googled item – alongside key words ‘Aintree’ and ‘alcohol smuggling’ – were ‘Hip flasks’ with 860 searches. Other popular Googled terms were ‘drink pouches’ with 100 searches, ‘fake perfume bottles’ (90), and ‘fake aftershave bottles (60 searches).
In the last three years, bottles of prosecco at the track have risen by £3.50 to £46 and pints at the track cost £7.80 – 60p more than they did in 2022. A single spirit and mixer will set you back £9.80, while a house wine costs £9.50 compared to £8 three years ago.
But it’s not just drink prices that have gone up at Aintree: accomodation around the track has soared in price by more than 100% for the three day festival.
Research by MyBettingSites.co.uk found a 4-night stay near Aintree (and surrounding areas, including Liverpool) from April 2-6 on Airbnb costs on average £811, which is 123.87% more than the week before the races.
