The rooftop terraza, Bar Skynight, features smooth bossa nova beats, pricey drinks (martinis start at 10 euros) and well-heeled locals who don't mind being mistaken for tourists.

F Map One of the world's few bowling alleys with a dress code, Lucky Strike has pricey drinks, plush lounge fittings and an expensively dressed crowd - which makes the whole experience more akin to a nightclub than a bowling alley.

IT is well after midnight on a weekend night in late June and the narrow, high sidewalk that hugs Mykonos's harbor is crammed with tourists clutching pricey drinks capped by giant fruit kabobs.

Most nights at most places, the pricey drinks - $7.50 for a beer, $11 for the best scotch - are the only admission charge.

By day, the spa offers pricey facials, massages, pedicures and waxing, and by night similarly pricey drinks like mojitos for $15.

The syndicate scrape together the necessary funds, and watch glumly as Weeks dines and guzzles the pricey drink, abusing his friends roundly as he grows inebriated.

His customers, predominantly lawyers and architects, talk to each other and to him as they drink his delicious - and by Berlin standards, pricey - mixed drinks made from 75 kinds of rum (they cost $9).

Wine for as little as $13 a bottle and $8 a half-bottle is a better buy than the pricey soft drinks at $3 a glass.

Expect late nights, big jewels, the occasional starlet and pricey drinks (35 francs for a Cosmopolitan).

Many analysts expect volume in Brazil to fall 5 to 10 percent this year, particularly as people decide that they don't have the disposable income to shell out for pricey American soft drinks.