$150 White Claws, $90 Water: EDC Drink Menu Reveals Price Gouging Out of Control

The prices for beverage packages at Las Vegas' annual Electric Daisy Carnival festival have been revealed -- and they'll make your jaw drop.

The cheapest bottle of hard liquor runs for a hefty $875, and the most expensive bottle of vodka retails for $1,700. A six pack of beers or alcoholic seltzers will cost you between $140 and $150.

The cheapest bottles of champagne will run a table a cool $1,550, while the most expensive 6 liter bottle clocks in at an outstanding $63,000. Guests can buy "champagne packages" that range from $10,650 to $94,000. The latter, titled the Notorious E.D.C package, provides guests with one 6L bottle of Dom PérignonBrut and one 6L bottle of Dom Pérignon Rosé.

The median income in the United States is less than $35,000.

Out of control pricing for bottles of alcohol in VIP sections isn't uncommon at music festivals or clubs, but EDC's prices are egregious, even by festival standards.

A price list from this year's Coachella Sahara Bar revealed that cocktails were listed at $17 for singles and $28 for double shots. Beers were roughly $15 and wines were $17. Waters cost $2 while energy drinks came in at $6. The most expensive drink was a Red Bull Vodka or Red Bull Watermelon Margarita, which would run you a cool $22 per drink.

EDC is charging a whopping $90 for non-alcoholic beverages.

Yes, a six-pack of SmartWater will run you $90; six cans of White Claw's 0.0% Non-Alcoholic beverage will cost you the same.

At Coachella, a non-alcoholic Heineken cost only $10 per can. Other non-alcoholic options include Prime Hydration, HIYO, Ghost Energy and Pressed Wellness.

Netizens reacted with horror at the outstanding prices.

"6 pack of smartwater being $90 is a war crime," said one X user.

"How can this be legal?" asked another.

"That water better turn me into aquaman," wrote @livlovesbunny.

User @ChRed83 wrote of the safety hazards caused by expensive waters. "Looking at the festival line up it looks like a festival for people taking drugs too. Depriving them of water seems like a pretty evil thing to do, could easily lead to deaths."

One festival attendee was quick to point out a loophole for these pricey waters, writing that the festival has "free water fill stations everywhere why would anyone pay this lol."

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EDC Las Vegas, Music Festivals