Waterford Crystal Visitor Centre, Now OPEN

looksee

When I went past the new Waterford Crystal visitor centre yesterday there were chandeliers lighting in the window - very nice. Still lots of workmen around though, does anyone have any information on when it is supposed to open?

I was down there last week and I have never seen so many people working on a site, they have done great work.

Ledger

Its been done really quick! I have to credit them it looks so good!

snuggles09

my uncle is starting back there the last week in June..i don't know if thats when its opening to the public or just when he's starting back

Mysterious&Shy

It's looking fabulous!

Psychedelic

Ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, 22nd June at 11am.

It's going to be called House of Waterford Crystal.

pmccormack

Looks pretty deadly down there a needed addition to the city bit of a face lift!

JPA

Goes to show how fast things can be built when everything runs smoothly from the planning on.

JohnC.

Name signs are up now and looks like markings for a pedestrian crossing directly outside. Seems a bit close to the Maryland crossing though.

looksee

Psychedelic wrote: »

Ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, 22nd June at 11am.

It's going to be called House of Waterford Crystal.

Thank you for that. No way will the good people of Waterford call it the 'House of Waterford Crystal'! It will be either the Glass visitor centre (or the Glass House? ). Its an improvement on the old ESB offices either way.

ex_infantry man

waterford definately needs something as good as this to get our acts together!!

danjo-xx

Looking fabulous and have to say SISK don't hang around. I heard the Buses will park in the newly developed Bolton St car park at the back

JohnC.

danjo-xx wrote: »

Looking fabulous and have to say SISK don't hang around. I heard the Buses will park in the newly developed Bolton St car park at the back.

I heard that part of it is for them too. But they also seem to have converted the parking spaces across the road on The Mall into coach parking too. There were a few work vehicles there when I passed, but I'm sure it had Coach Parking painted along it now.

Somehow, I never got around to visiting the old centre, but I'm sure I'll be having a look in here.

Junior

Kahless wrote: »

I heard that part of it is for them too. But they also seem to have converted the parking spaces across the road on The Mall into coach parking too. There were a few work vehicles there when I passed, but I'm sure it had Coach Parking painted along it now.

Somehow, I never got around to visiting the old centre, but I'm sure I'll be having a look in here.

Your not the only one who never got into the old centre, but going to make it my business to get round the new one, and certainly will be commenting on it to all friends and relatives coming home in September for a wedding and trying to get them to go.

It would be great if the city pushed the owners of some of the property around that area to tidy it up. There's a few that spring to mind that are dragging the place down.

Aquos76

City Council have a new webcam set up on the new visitors centre

http://www.waterfordcity.ie/cam/

looksee

I went into the new visitor centre this morning - it opened yesterday apparently. Still a bit of work being finished outside, but inside it is done.

Since tours were half price today (don't know how long that is for, a few days while they get settled I imagine) I went on the tour. Very interesting, similar to the old tours but on a smaller scale. They are in production though - limited at the moment as they are waiting for the big furnace to come on line, it takes two weeks to get it useable apparently - but there will be a reasonable amount of glass being produced considering that there is a lot of talking and demonstrating going on.

Its really worth a look and will be a huge benefit to Waterford's tourism industry.

looksee

Did anyone else find you have to refresh your screen to update the web cam?

JPA

Aquos76 wrote: »

City Council have a new webcam set up on the new visitors centre

http://www.waterfordcity.ie/cam/

Someone go down and wave, I'll wait here.

mike65

Tis amazing how when the tourist dollars are at stake things can get done ultra-quick.

tis reloading every few seconds me for.

JohnC.

Might pop in tomorrow morning then.

C_Dawg

Cheers for the heads up. Must pop down for a tour soon

looksee

mike65 wrote: »

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tis reloading every few seconds me for.

It blinks every few seconds, but it only updates if you refresh the screen.

mike65

In opera it updates, I see traffic and people shuffling forwards and the clock (top left) updates.

JohnC.

Definitely updating for me in Firefox too.

miaowchi

It looks great on the outside cant wait to see the inside.....

tonc76

Kahless wrote: »

Definitely updating for me in Firefox too.

+1:D

looksee

Yup, ok (grumble grumble) its IE, works in Firefox fine. *Mutters* don't like Firefox, its scruffy looking....

JohnC.

Actually just tried IE too and it's working fine for me in that too

RobitTV

The Webcam is good But the positition its in Is not that good Can someone tell the council to move it her abit so we can see the building itself! lol

Cabaal

RobitTV wrote: »

The Webcam is good But the positition its in Is not that good Can someone tell the council to move it her abit so we can see the building itself! lol

imho it needs a wider lens,would also be nice to see more of the street

wellbutty

Looks superb from the outside, hopefully the council will get the Bolton Street area cleaned up next...there's a lot of scruffy and derelict buildings in that area which I presume the tourists must pass.

foxylad2

inside of Waterford Crystal is ultra modern - was there one hour after it opened and they were on their third bus tour - all credit to theCity Manager - his pushing the City as hard as he can - undercroft is next to open - then Bishops Palace is to be transformed - then a Viking Museum - and finally the new new Waterford Crystal on the quays ( with no car parks)
Waterford is doffo on the way up!!

wellbutty

The council must be hot favourite to buy the Bowery for the future Viking Triangle vision

sceptre

looksee wrote: »

It will be either the Glass visitor centre (or the Glass House? )

I vote for Glass House if the locals won't go for Crystal Palace. I'd prefer the latter though.

Bards

wellbutty wrote: »

The council must be hot favourite to buy the Bowery for the future Viking Triangle vision

I would imagine that they would - only a price tag of €1m shows how much things have changed - at the height of the boom the price tab would be closer to €10m

€1m is a small price to pay to increase the tourist offering in this important historically area

Aquos76

wellbutty wrote: »

The council must be hot favourite to buy the Bowery for the future Viking Triangle vision

The city council were approched towards the end of 09, beginning on 2010 about purchasing the Bowery, they (city council) had enquired about it a few year back and there was an asking price of over 3m then, this time around it was offered to CC for 800k. The council never took up the offer.

jonnyfingers

Aquos76 wrote: »

The city council were approched towards the end of 09, beginning on 2010 about purchasing the Bowery, they (city council) had enquired about it a few year back and there was an asking price of over 3m then, this time around it was offered to CC for 800k. The council never took up the offer.

I'd imagine with the recent development in the area that the price will probably increase slightly now.

P.S. If I go and moon the webcam will someone take a screenshot? Would be a great desktop wallpaper!:D

AdMMM

Certainly not a great looking wallpaper though

gscully

jonnyfingers wrote: »

I'd imagine with the recent development in the area that the price will probably increase slightly now.

P.S. If I go and moon the webcam will someone take a screenshot? Would be a great desktop wallpaper!:D

Don't! Given the bad parking, someone is sure to stick a bike in your crack.

Judgement Day

Good to see something worthwhile rising out of the ashes of Waterford Glass. Tony O'Reilly and his cronies have a lot to answer for in their total mismanagement of the company. Apart from burning a lot of small shareholders (of which I'm one and have heard precisely nothing since things went belly-up) Waterford Wedgwood did massive damage to the British ceramics industry too through their takeovers of Royal Doulton, Johnson Bros etc.etc

jonnyfingers

AdMMM wrote: »

Certainly not a great looking wallpaper though

Go way out of that! I got some looks in the waterford crystal swimming pool last night in my James Bond speedos.





Now that mental image was punishment for your earlier comment!

urhavinalaugh

I hope this site will inject a bit of badly needed revenue to the business people in the area of the NEW Waterford Glass center , especially the pubs.:D

deisemum

jonnyfingers wrote: »

Go way out of that! I got some looks in the waterford crystal swimming pool last night in my James Bond speedos.





Now that mental image was punishment for your earlier comment!

According to a discussion earlier this week on the Ray D'arcy Show speedos are back in fashion, also back in fashion are Tom Selleck type moustaches

deisemum

jonnyfingers wrote: »

P.S. If I go and moon the webcam will someone take a screenshot? Would be a great desktop wallpaper!:D

Will that be after a back, sack and crack wax or as nature intended.

SUNGOD

deisemum wrote: »

According to a discussion earlier this week on the Ray D'arcy Show speedos are back in fashion, also back in fashion are Tom Selleck type moustaches

as long as the Tom selleck moustache is not sticking out of the sides of your speedos

deisemum

Like this?

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/Deisemum/badhair-1.jpg

SUNGOD

deisemum wrote: »

Like this?

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/Deisemum/badhair-1.jpg

exactley like that deisemum. i love it:D

its like a cross between gerry adams and dick turpin*




*the high way robber who wore a hancherchief tied around his face and said stand and deliver as he robbed horse drawn coaches years ago....for 5 points who played him in the series in the 80's

deisemum

SUNGOD wrote: »

exactley like that deisemum. i love it:D

its like a cross between gerry adams and dick turpin*




*the high way robber who wore a hancherchief tied around his face and said stand and deliver as he robbed horse drawn coaches years ago....for 5 points who played him in the series in the 80's

Richard O'Sullivan

SUNGOD

deisemum wrote: »

Richard O'Sullivan

5 points to you:D

comeraghs

back to topic

looking forward to checking it out later in the summer.

anyone know the admission charges?

what exactly is the plan for moving the whole thing down to the quay?

comeraghs

& What are the other things happening with the Viking triangle?

ziedth

I was down there on Friday. I was very impressed, they seem to be seriously overstaffed though!