AlgheroPrices · Preus
Preus · 40.56° N 8.32° E
A city bus ticket costs one euro. An umbrella and two sunbeds on the town beach for a week in August cost about two hundred and seventy. Everything you will spend here sits between those two numbers. This page lists the ranges — getting here, sleeping, eating, tickets — and says which of them come from a published tariff and which are what the market charges.
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Per person per day, with two people sharing a room and a car. Built from the ranges below: the bed includes the tourist tax, the food assumes one meal out a day. August lifts every bar, and almost all of the rise lands on the first segment.
Getting here
The flight is the part you can influence most and the part we can promise least about. Everything after it — the bus from the airport, the taxi, the parking meter — runs on a published tariff.
SourcesARSTComune di AlgheroOsservaprezzi carburanti (MIMIT)Federconsumatori
Prices checked September 5, 2026
Sleeping
The season decides this more than the star rating. The same double room can move by a factor of three between February and the first half of August, which is why these ranges are so wide.
SourcesComune di Alghero — imposta di soggiorno
Prices checked September 5, 2026
Eating and shopping
Two Italian habits shape the bill more than the menu does: coffee costs less standing at the counter than sitting at a table, and every restaurant adds a cover charge per person.
SourcesCRC / Assoutenti — prezzo del caffèOsservatorio della pizza napoletana
Prices checked September 5, 2026
Seeing things
The museums and the archaeological sites publish one tariff and stick to it. Boats, dives and rentals set their own, so those are ranges — the figures here are what operators in Alghero were charging when we checked.
SourcesGrotta di NettunoMusei di AlgheroNavisardaAlghero DiversAltroconsumo — spiagge 2026
Prices checked September 5, 2026
Costing nothing
Worth knowing before you budget: the three things Alghero is best known for — the walls, the old town and the sand — are all free to walk into.
Prices checked September 5, 2026
Compared
Eurostat prices the same basket in every European country once a year and sets the EU average at 100. Two of its categories decide most of a holiday budget: what you pay to eat out and sleep, and what you pay in a shop.
Italy runs about eleven per cent above the EU average for restaurants and hotels, and roughly thirty per cent above Spain or Greece — that is the real gap between Sardinia and the other big island holidays. Groceries reverse it: Italian shops are cheaper than Greek or Croatian ones. So a week where you cook half your meals costs much what it would in Greece, and a week of restaurants does not. These are national figures, and a resort coast always sits above its own country's average.
Questions
Against Spain or Greece, expect to pay about a third more for restaurants and hotels and slightly less in a supermarket. Within Italy it behaves like what it is — a summer resort — so the season matters more than the town: the same double room can cost three times as much in the first half of August as it does in February.
Late April to early June, and the second half of September. The sea is usable, everything is open, and a bed costs roughly half the August rate. November to March is cheaper again, but many seaside places close for the winter and the boat to Neptune's Grotto does not run.
Not for the town: the old town is closed to traffic and small enough to cross on foot in five minutes, and city buses cost a euro. A week's hire in August can cost more than two flights. If you want Capo Caccia, the northern beaches or Bosa, you need either the car or an organised trip — that is the calculation to make before you book one.
Cards work almost everywhere, including on city buses, where contactless has been accepted since June 2026. Parking meters take cards too, and the EasyPark and DropTicket apps work at them. Keep some cash for beach kiosks and small bars.
A per-person cover charge, between €1.50 and €3, printed on the menu and added to every restaurant bill in Italy. It covers bread, linen and table service. It is not a tip, and tipping on top is not expected — rounding up is enough.
No. The sand is public and you can lay a towel on it. A lido sells you an umbrella, sunbeds and usually a shower and a bar — which in Alghero is one of the more expensive versions of that in Italy, so it is worth knowing it is optional.
Two euro per person per night in most places, four in hotels of four stars and above, one at a campsite with your own vehicle. It is charged for at most seven consecutive nights, children under twelve are exempt, and the property collects it — usually at check-out, often in cash.