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Christmas Market

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  • #52
    Paddyfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Paddyfield


    It's the 36th next in Europe

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/christmas-markets-to-visit-before-you-die


    Let's celebrate this achievement...


  • #53
    Sofa King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Sofa King


    beardybrewer wrote: »
    While the market has the carousel and a few rides it is really aimed more for adults.

    I think the Winter Wonderland was a great addition at the docks. Take her ice skating and maybe she won't complain.

    As an adult, I felt it was a disappointment.
    JohnCleary wrote: »
    They've really failed their target market, then.

    /sarcasm

    Well, just based on the two of us, they've failed to impress from a 6 -32 year old.


  • #54
    Aerohead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Aerohead


    I was very disappointed with the market also, far to many food stalls you were tripping over them, I was in the Manchester Christmas Market last year and the difference is massive, big wooden huts all the same and not as many food cabins as Galway. Someone said on local radio last week that the Galway Market was the best in Europe, obviously has not left Galway because its nowhere near the Markets on the Continent.


  • #55
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    My favourite stall at the Galway Xmas market is the one with the nuns. With the Russian dolls and the religious bits and pieces.


  • #56
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is the waterford one better??


  • #57
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,768 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    fryup wrote: »
    is the waterford one better??

    Maybe. But they don't do a Park & Ride from Galway.


  • #58
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Is it closed now or do I still have a chance to get some macaroons?


  • #59
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,768 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Links234 wrote: »
    Is it closed now or do I still have a chance to get some macaroons?

    Couple of hours officially, but with the weather id say some of them are pulling out already.


  • #60
    vkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    Came up from Clare, on 2 separate occasions with different people each time and all thought it was pretty poor. The one in Dublin across from the Shelbourne was pretty rubbish as well though.


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  • #61
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,272 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    Links234 wrote: »
    Is it closed now or do I still have a chance to get some macaroons?

    According to the Galway independent its open til 8,but what was said above makes sense too.


  • #62
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,084 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Links234 wrote: »
    Is it closed now or do I still have a chance to get some macaroons?

    I just got two for the price of one. Weather and traffic are horrid though.


  • #63
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,947 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    vkid wrote: »
    Came up from Clare, on 2 separate occasions with different people each time and all thought it was pretty poor. The one in Dublin across from the Shelbourne was pretty rubbish as well though.

    The Galway one is better than the Stephen's Green one. The SG is just a straight line with no atmosphere whatsoever. Although, I did get the best hot chocolate I've ever had in there.


  • #64
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I'm ****ed if I'm going out there in that for some macaroons sadly :(


  • #65
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Sofa King wrote: »
    As an adult, I felt it was a disappointment.



    Well, just based on the two of us, they've failed to impress from a 6 -32 year old.

    Did you ask for a refund of your entry fee?

    Oh, wait


  • #66
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    JohnCleary wrote: »
    Did you ask for a refund of your entry fee?

    Oh, wait

    Jaysus would ye calm on yer snarky attitude. Loads of people were disenchanted with it this year. I had to work at it last year and I hated it more for that reason than anything else but I approached it this year with a sense of excitement as I wouldn't have to be a trader and was mahoosively let down. Sitting in the freezing cold/pouring rain last year was more fun than visiting it as a customer this year. Twas no Christmas cheer. Stop getting offended.


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  • #67
    Sofa King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Sofa King


    JohnCleary wrote: »
    Did you ask for a refund of your entry fee?

    Oh, wait

    Are peoples opinions not welcome here?

    This years Market was poor, it did nothing for us and it didn't have a 'Christmassy' feel/vibe, that's my opinion and it seems the opinion of others on here.

    I've been to the market in previous years and I felt that this years market didn't even scratch the surface of the previous ones.

    That's my opinion and the opinion of my daughter was that it was 'Rubbish', and for all things Christmas it's not often that a child would say something is rubbish.


  • #68
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Sofa King wrote: »
    Are peoples opinions not welcome here?

    This years Market was poor, it did nothing for us and it didn't have a 'Christmassy' feel/vibe, that's my opinion and it seems the opinion of others on here.

    I've been to the market in previous years and I felt that this years market didn't even scratch the surface of the previous ones.

    That's my opinion and the opinion of my daughter was that it was 'Rubbish', and for all things Christmas it's not often that a child would say something is rubbish.
    I think the first time it came it was amazing but subsequent years have been usually equally disappointing.


  • #69
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,084 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Well I liked it. To me it seemed more Christmassy this year and the layout was slightly better.

    Rip-off food, cheesy atmosphere (eg the green mistletoe arch), some local crafts (the slate carvings guy, the seaweed people), some continental ones (eg the nuns from Belarus). Flashy lights. Blaring christmas music. Rip off mulled wine - from two different outlets if you didn't like the loud live music from one. Slightly tacky Santa train. Blinking helter skelter which was basically just a curved slide. Everything that an Irish-pretending-to-be-continental Christmas market should be.

    There's no way that an event like this will be heaps better than last year every single year, but what I see is small improvements / extensions each year.


  • #70
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,272 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Well I liked it. To me it seemed more Christmassy this year and the layout was slightly better.

    Rip-off food, cheesy atmosphere (eg the green mistletoe arch), some local crafts (the slate carvings guy, the seaweed people), some continental ones (eg the nuns from Belarus). Flashy lights. Blaring christmas music. Rip off mulled wine - from two different outlets if you didn't like the loud live music from one. Slightly tacky Santa train. Blinking helter skelter which was basically just a curved slide. Everything that an Irish-pretending-to-be-continental Christmas market should be.

    There's no way that an event like this will be heaps better than last year every single year, but what I see is small improvements / extensions each year.
    Disagree with that, the open plan middle section was far better last year, this year was back to the up one path down the other, the huts up Richardsons side also kinda seemed lost.


  • #71
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I think the first time it came it was amazing but subsequent years have been usually equally disappointing.

    As far as I heard, it was a completely different crowd doing it the first year who were actually a european crowd, then the second year they were blocked from doing it and they got in an Irish crowd to run it instead, which is why everything had changed (and has been worse) the second year onwards.


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  • #72
    Laviski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Laviski


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I think the first time it came it was amazing but subsequent years have been usually equally disappointing.

    i would totally agree

    there were also more local crafters/traders there also in the first year. They were not seen there since. If they want it better - entice them back!
    also would be good to see if the promise to repair eyre square to the state they got it in is fulfilled by jan 16th


  • #73
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Well I liked it. To me it seemed more Christmassy this year and the layout was slightly better.

    so you liked it
    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Rip-off food, cheesy atmosphere (eg the green mistletoe arch), some local crafts (the slate carvings guy, the seaweed people), some continental ones (eg the nuns from Belarus). Flashy lights. Blaring christmas music. Rip off mulled wine - from two different outlets if you didn't like the loud live music from one. Slightly tacky Santa train. Blinking helter skelter which was basically just a curved slide. Everything that an Irish-pretending-to-be-continental Christmas market should be.

    or you didn't like it :confused:


  • #74
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,084 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    fryup wrote: »
    so you liked it



    or you didn't like it :confused:

    Like I said, I liked it: 'Twas everything that an Irish-pretending-to-be-continental Christmas market should be.

    Meaning that I don't expect it to be authentic German or whatever - if I wanted that, I'd go to Germany etc. I expect it to be the Irish take on it, and that's exactly what was on offer.


  • #75
    Delicia
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Delicia


    The problem with the market that I could see is that the operators are limiting their target market - or more accurately they took the biggest bucks from the food stalls & never mind what the consumers wanted. It was lovely to walk around & the kids had a great time on the carousels but after that there wasn't much. From what I hear the rents were fairly prohibitive (food & alcohol stalls could afford it) so that would have put off many local crafts people surely? The market seems to be becoming a night time social event & that's a great pity.


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