Lunch at Cafe Sambal, the hotel's casual restaurant, cost $23 for Singapore noodles and coffee, including tax and tip.
Parking was $20. Breakfast at Sirena, now renamed Ago, the hotel's casual restaurant, cost $23 for eggs Benedict and coffee, including tax and tip.
Casual hire costs £1 per half hour capped at £10 for up to 24 hours.
But that casual look costs about $2,800.
A fast-casual meal costs $2 to $3 more than ordinary fast food, according to Technomic.
By contrast, the benefits of the auto bailout are literally at street level: in a popular Chevy Camaro, a Chrysler, a cutting-edge Cadillac -- or one of the many Jeep models that have more casual cred, but cost half as much, as a Mercedes, BMW or Lexus SUV.
As proposed by Darwin, and suggested by many casual observations, this cost in lianas might be reduced by lianas being supported by stems of neighbouring plants.
But Nintendo and Sony are up against perhaps even bigger rivals: low-cost, casual games downloaded onto iPhones, iPod Touches and Android devices, a market that has grown rapidly.
But these preferences reflect privileges and don't entitle me, Bourdain or anyone else who trots the globe and visits ambitious restaurants — the most casual of which can cost $50 a person and entail hourlong waits — to look down on food lovers without the resources, opportunity or inclination for that.
Some model that brings in more than advertising, but doesn't exclude casual visitors, either by cost or inconvenience?
