Late night drinks charges

LolaDub

Does anybody notice an additional charge being introduced on drinks later in the evening? I know my office local has an extra 20c on drinks after 11. I was in krystle/dicey rileys last weekend and after 8 the price of a pint went up from 5euro to 6 euro. Perhaps its just me but this seems crazy!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

LolaDub wrote: »

Does anybody notice an additional charge being introduced on drinks later in the evening? I know my office local has an extra 20c on drinks after 11. I was in krystle/dicey rileys last weekend and after 8 the price of a pint went up from 5euro to 6 euro. Perhaps its just me but this seems crazy!

There are a lot of places like that.....and have been like that for ages!

LolaDub

The local doesn't bother me,its krystle/diceys i thought was crazy. 8 isn't late night and they're charging in the door anyhow but 6 euro for a pint seems ridiculous!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

LolaDub wrote: »

The local doesn't bother me,its krystle/diceys i thought was crazy. 8 isn't late night and they're charging in the door anyhow but 6 euro for a pint seems ridiculous!

You should try drinking pint bottle of bulmers.....they are even more expensive than pints :mad:

LolaDub

I don't even drink pints, just using the prices for comparison rather than ranting about wine. There was a group of us out and everyone seemed a bit shocked

brianthebard

LolaDub wrote: »

The local doesn't bother me,its krystle/diceys i thought was crazy. 8 isn't late night and they're charging in the door anyhow but 6 euro for a pint seems ridiculous!

Please tell me ye didn't stay there??? Thats a ridiculous price. tbh I like to smuggle naggins in and drink them, occaisonally getting a coke [/student]

rossie1977

i have noticed this in dublin for the last few months alrite :mad:

was in galway on saturday night and the drink seemed mad expensive in some places compared to when i was out there before

LolaDub

We had a leaving party booked for work so we did stay there, the expense made it an early night though! Our reserved area was on the balcony but they didnt reserve a large enough area so some of our group got seats in the beer garden. All was fine until ten when they lock the door from the beer garden to the balcony and wouldn't let any of us through. To see or talk to our friends a few metres away in the same place they told us we had to finish our overpriced drinks, vacate our seats go from the balcony past the beer garden and our friends into the basement of krystle leave by the front door onto harcourt st, queue for diceys and pay in there, same for them coming to us. Insane!

LolaDub

rossie1977 wrote: »

i have noticed this in dublin for the last few months alrite :mad:

was in galway on saturday night and the drink seemed mad expensive in some places compared to when i was out there before

I know its the done thing now to have a late night drinks charge if its small it doesn't bother me but going from 5 to 6 euro when they already charge an entry fee and its only 8 o colck? Seems pure madness

Clare Bear

That's what you get for going to Dicey's/Krystle....Krystle in particular, haven't been in months after going there a lot (not my choice!), I hope I never have to see that place ever again. I don't mind Dicey's but that is a rip off!

Time to re-live the student days and get drunk before you leave the house!

Sir Oxman

LolaDub wrote: »

Does anybody notice an additional charge being introduced on drinks later in the evening? I know my office local has an extra 20c on drinks after 11. I was in krystle/dicey rileys last weekend and after 8 the price of a pint went up from 5euro to 6 euro. Perhaps its just me but this seems crazy!

Main question:

DO YOU ACTUALLY PAY SIX QUID (OR FIVE QUID FOR THAT MATTER) or (hopefully) do you tell them to stuff it and walk out.

I hope it's my hope.

Conbro

Nobody's forcing you to go into pubs and hand over your hard earned cash for ridiculusly overpriced alcohol. Yes its unfair and your being taken advantge of but thats what capitalism does to addicts

Xavi6

gambiaman wrote: »

Main question:

DO YOU ACTUALLY PAY SIX QUID (OR FIVE QUID FOR THAT MATTER) or (hopefully) do you tell them to stuff it and walk out.

I hope it's my hope.

And go where? To the other 10 pubs in the area doing the same thing? Or if you're in a suburb get a taxi to and from another pub so that you end paying more anyway?

The only realistic option is to pay it or drink at home.

hussey

Is it the law in Ireland to display your drink prices, inc any price changes after a certain time??

if people are willing to pay, then the publicans will keep their prices high.
If people started to vote with their feet, then there might be a change.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

gambiaman wrote: »

Main question:

DO YOU ACTUALLY PAY SIX QUID (OR FIVE QUID FOR THAT MATTER) or (hopefully) do you tell them to stuff it and walk out.

I hope it's my hope.

You know he did.

"I hate the way Duff treat's the customer... Moe, gimme another Duff."

Sir Oxman

Xavi6 wrote: »

And go where? To the other 10 pubs in the area doing the same thing? Or if you're in a suburb get a taxi to and from another pub so that you end paying more anyway?

The only realistic option is to pay it or drink at home.

Like anything else - shop around or as another poster said, vote with their feet and vacate the overpriced dump.

seamus

hussey wrote: »

Is it the law in Ireland to display your drink prices, inc any price changes after a certain time??

Yep.

if people are willing to pay, then the publicans will keep their prices high.
If people started to vote with their feet, then there might be a change.

Most publicans in this country have no idea how to run a business. They see the number of punters coming in the door dropping, so they decide that the only way to maintain profits is to increase their prices :rolleyes:

Up around the D2/D4 area, you've a whole pile of pubs who charge high prices because they specifically want to attract wealthy idiots/celebrity fans - Krystle, Legs, Ron Black's and all those.

They're crap pubs anyway, so for those ones vote with your feet and tell the moron who suggests them to feck off.

connundrum

I remember this happening in a club I worked in 5+ years ago. It took about a week after starting to realise that the prices were going up automatically with the time. No one told me and it wasn't covered in training.

I'd often ask a punter for €5 for a drink only to go to the till and discover that it'd gone up to €5.50 in the minute that I'd been away.

Poor practice IMO and I don't know how publicans are still getting away with it.

Xavi6

gambiaman wrote: »

Like anything else - shop around or as another poster said, vote with their feet and vacate the overpriced dump.

Did you not read my post?

If every pub is like that (and let's face it, they are in town) then you don't have a choice other than staying at home. It'll cost you more in transport and time to get somewhere else as well.

oeb

I got charged more than 7 euro for a pint bottle in a late bar in Waterford a few months back.

Also, remeber a few years ago when they brought in that law to ban happy hours? I thought that stopped people changing the price of drink over the course of the night?

Wagon

You should head to Eamon Dorans. Bought a Morgan spiced and pint of bulmers and it cost me bout 14 euro :mad: ****e night too!!! :mad::mad:

chin_grin

You mean when you're in your local drinking emporium/establishment, you have to pay for goods and services rendered and then consumed? And then when you're merry enough not really realising it you have to dig deeper in to your ever emptying wallet and expanding gut and give the kind lad another tuppence for his trouble? The vast nerve!

Dinter

Yep, it's ridiculous alright. Still short of not going out there's not a whole lot you can do.

(Well except refrain from going to that pretentious rats nest on Harcourt St.)

Pen1987

Pretty much every single bar in town charges the same prices. So unless you want to go to some dodgey local bar with a load of stinking 50 year old acoholics in the corner who dont want you there, and you dont want them there, and you dont want to be in a place like that... so youre actually better off paying the average (high) price for a drink in a club.


Krystle used to be 7euro a pint.

dymondz

Most people i know now drink at home then head to club. I havent done the whole night out thing (pub for few hours then club) in years cause you spent a fortune!

Honey-ec

oeb wrote: »

Also, remeber a few years ago when they brought in that law to ban happy hours? I thought that stopped people changing the price of drink over the course of the night?

Nope, it only stopped them discounting the price, not raising it. The system works!

Sir Oxman

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

You know he did.

"I hate the way Duff treat's the customer... Moe, gimme another Duff."

Yes, I know he did which is his shame and negates the whole rant.

Sir Oxman

Xavi6 wrote: »

Did you not read my post?

If every pub is like that (and let's face it, they are in town) then you don't have a choice other than staying at home. It'll cost you more in transport and time to get somewhere else as well.

No, every pub is NOT like that in town or near town.
The choice is there and I have very good comprehension , thanks mate.

Sir Oxman

connundrum wrote: »

I remember this happening in a club I worked in 5+ years ago. It took about a week after starting to realise that the prices were going up automatically with the time. No one told me and it wasn't covered in training.

I'd often ask a punter for €5 for a drink only to go to the till and discover that it'd gone up to €5.50 in the minute that I'd been away.

Poor practice IMO and I don't know how publicans are still getting away with it.

Beacuse there are vast swathes of thick twats out there that put up with it.

javaboy

A lot of people are saying vote with your feet but unless everybody does it at once, there will be no change.

Drinkers need to unionise.

daraghmack

LolaDub wrote: »

Does anybody notice an additional charge being introduced on drinks later in the evening? I know my office local has an extra 20c on drinks after 11. I was in krystle/dicey rileys last weekend and after 8 the price of a pint went up from 5euro to 6 euro. Perhaps its just me but this seems crazy!

Diceys is ridiculous for this, drives me mad. There is no other place in Dublin where I notice it as bad and to be honest if you were paying for decent beer it might be tolerable but to pay that money for muck that is guaranteed to blow the head off you the next morning is mad! I work near Diceys and its where we always go on a Friday evening but I am not really a fan of the place, the put up the prices at 3 stages of the night, 8pm 10pm and 12pm....bit OTT in my opinion.

LolaDub

I think the point i was trying to make has been missed. I'm not ranting about overpriced drinks but about this supposed late night charge especially when they consider 8 a late night and you already have to pay in.

I think its a bit ridiculous even though they try to explain it with increased late night insurance costs etc, but i know they use but in my local when its after 10 and only 20c. 20 c seems ok but a euro per drink doesn't. To me it doesn't make much sense and i was wondering if people agreed or if its just me. As i said earlier i was in diceys/krystle for a work thing but legged it as soon as i could. The service was awful and they didn't even have what i wanted (chardonnay-not an unreasonable request) so the 'late night' charge after 8 was enough to turn me off the dump for life!

RichMc70

The extra charge late night has been going on for ages now. I agree thats its just another rip-off. I bet the staff wages don't suddenly jump up 5% after a certain time at night

When I was living in Dublin it was just the city centre pubs/bars carrying out this practice.

The only way it's gonna change is if people refuse to pay the extra or just stop going there.