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What Sparti costs
How expensive is Sparti?
Sparti is the best-documented place on this site, and the clearest illustration of why we never add our figures together. We have three room totals from the same hotel in three consecutive Julys — €1,515.72 for six nights in 2024, $1,375.95 for four in 2025, €954.40 for four in 2026 — plus a printed €62,50 receipt and three dollar card charges. Two of those room totals are euro figures and one is a dollar charge. They sit below in the order they happened and they are never summed, because a total across two currencies appears on no document.
Two kinds of evidence, kept apart. The euro row is a printed 2025 receipt with the figure written in euros; the dollar rows are US-card billings from the July 2026 stay. They are not added together, because a cross-currency total would be a number neither document supports.
Sparti is the only place on this site where we hold both kinds of evidence at once, and the way they sit next to each other is the clearest illustration of a rule that governs every figure we publish.
The euro row is a printed receipt: Kolovos Athanasios, 11:36 on July 27, 2025, postcode 23100, which is Sparti, for €62,50. The amount is written in euros on the document. That makes it quotable as a euro price.
The dollar rows are different animals entirely. They are US-card billings from the July 2026 stay — what the bank charged after conversion and any markup, with no euro figure captured anywhere behind them. They are perfectly real, and they are not euro prices.
What we will not do is add them together. A total across the two would be a number that appears on no document and describes no transaction — it would mix a printed euro figure with a dollar billing from a different summer and present the result as though it meant something. It would also look entirely normal, which is precisely why the rule exists.
One row is better evidenced than the rest, and it is worth pointing at. The supermarket charge is corroborated twice: the merchant line the bank printed carries the town in it, and we photographed the storefront. A card charge tied to a named place by an independent photograph is as close to airtight as this record gets.
As everywhere else on this site, treat these figures as a floor. Cash spending across both summers is entirely invisible, and four figures across two years is a sample, not a cost of living.
Common questions
Because the sum would not mean anything. The euro row is what a printed receipt says; the dollar rows are what a card was billed after conversion and any markup. Adding them produces a figure that appears on no document and describes no transaction, which is exactly the kind of number this site exists to avoid.
A printed receipt from Kolovos Athanasios, timed 11:36 on July 27, 2025, in postcode 23100 — which is Sparti. Because the amount is written in euros on the document, it can be quoted as a euro price. Our 2026 card charges cannot.
Two ways that agree. The merchant line the bank printed carries the town in it, and we photographed the storefront. That is a card charge tied to a named place by a picture, which is the standard we would like every row on this site to meet.
No, and the reason is the point of this page. 2024 and 2026 are euro figures; 2025 is a dollar charge. Saying one summer was dearer than another means converting one of them at a rate nobody recorded, and the answer would change depending on which day you picked. The three totals are true individually and meaningless against each other.
No. Each booking is one room, and we were not a party that fits in one room. The room totals are the lodging line and nothing else — every meal, every fuel stop and every cash purchase across three summers sits outside them.
No. It is three room totals and four incidental figures across three different summers, and all cash spending in every one of them is invisible. It is a floor with dates on it, nothing more.
On the [Greece-wide record](/planning/what-greece-costs), where the euro documents and the dollar billings are listed under the same rule as here.