Planning a UK mini-break? See how the price has gone up – from hotels to fish and chips

That takeaway staple is up by more than 50%, while car hire is up 75% … add an item to our visual tool to see how costs have risen in the past five years

It’s enough to make you drop your chips – official figures show that over the past five years the price of a takeaway fish supper has risen by more than 50%.

A portion of fish and chips isn’t the only British summer break staple that has become far more expensive since then: hotel, restaurant and bar bills have also all shot up.