# Once it was a £1 hanger. Now it’s a £15 locker. Why do cloakrooms cost so much on a night out?

- Source: Guardian Business
- Published: 2026-11-04T15:33:31+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/04/why-do-cloakrooms-now-cost-so-much-on-a-night-out
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/once-it-was-a-1-hanger-now-it-s-a-15-locker-why-do-cloakrooms-cost-so--a54766/

The cost of checking your coat or bag is galloping ahead of other – also rising – prices at venues. We explain the surprisingly complex reasons why Not long ago, it cost just £2 to put a coat or a heavily stuffed tote bag in a cloakroom on a night out. But over the course of the 2020s, that cost has increased to more than £13 in some UK venues. At the Outernet Live venue complex in London’s Soho,

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