Well it ' s not entirely like that , but I converted it to that because I don ' t believe the Dutch system is very well known around the world . Clubs here tend to use coins . You buy them when you enter the club , and a drink costs any multitude of their coins . A beer is normally 1 coin 2 if you ' re lucky , wine varies from 1 to 2 , etc . , etc . So it ' s not about the money that ' s my issue , since you just give coins to pay for your drink to the person who ' s getting the drinks . It ' s the fact that they expect me to go get drinks more often than I drink something myself . It might not always be a big deal , but getting drinks can sometimes take up to half an hour or more in some places , so why should I waste my time at the bar 10 times , when I only had 5 drinks or so ?