Pub prices

arch staunton

4.50 for a pint of Heinkein In Kilkenny last Thursday night ,no wonder that pub was empty.It is 3.80 in my local for the same drink. :eek:

Creamy Goodness

did you buy one? if so that's the reason for the price. publicans will charge exactly what they can get away with. people buying at that price justifies their decision.

PCPhoto

try drinking in Dublin sometime ... prices have been above €5 per pint in most places for years.

if you paid it - then you are accepting the price.... if you consider it too expensive - walk away...goto another pub....and another pub...or just goto an off licence or supermarket and get some drinks to have at home.

dabestman1

most pints in carlow are 4.45-4.55

NoseyMike2010

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

NoseyMike2010

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

steve9859

How about this: €8.85 for a whisky (single) and coke in Oliver St John Gogarty in temple bar. The can of coke was €3!!! How can anyone justify that. Funnily enough we left after 1 drink!

NoseyMike2010

****tt. Thats madness. Temple Bar must be a ghost town!

Creamy Goodness

NoseyMike2010 wrote: »

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

As far as I'm aware, 'happy' promotions such as 'happy hour' and 'happy *day of week*' are illegal in Ireland.

snubbleste

rip-off, n.
An act of stealing, a theft; (hence) a fraud, a swindle; (more generally) any instance of esp. financial exploitation.

Max Power1

free market, not a rip off.

jack presley

I'd consider €4.50 for a pint quite reasonable.

arch staunton

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

did you buy one? if so that's the reason for the price. publicans will charge exactly what they can get away with. people buying at that price justifies their decision.

Yes I did buy one but one only,and I agree as long as we keep buying it they will keep charging those prices.

But surely 4.50- 5.00 are celtic tiger prices as far as i can see most thing have come down in price except Drink in pubs.

Ghandee

NoseyMike2010 wrote: »

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

availed of this deal myself at the weekend.
Just be aware though, in the north (and the uk) Bulmers is not the same as the Bulmers we have in Ireland, and the UK Bulmers its muck!

Anyone heading North, it is Magners your looking out for. Magners is repackaged (Irish) Bulmers.

24 x PINT bottles of Bulmers (apple or pear) for twenty quid, now that is a deal!

goat2

steve9859 wrote: »

How about this: €8.85 for a whisky (single) and coke in Oliver St John Gogarty in temple bar. The can of coke was €3!!! How can anyone justify that. Funnily enough we left after 1 drink!

how can they justify that pricing, would rather stay at home than spend that kind of money, is there a ceiling on the prices they can charge

rivers

Went into Fitzsimmons last monday night for a drink as it was practically the only place with people, asked the barman price for a pint/bottle - 6.05:eek:
We didnt stay for even one. ridiculous, can't believe people would pay that...

ended up in the Czech inn (?) across from the turks head. place isnt good but at least the drink prices were reasonable...

NoseyMike2010

I really don't know how pubs are surviving in Ireland with these bar prices!!!!!!!!!!!

rubadub

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

As far as I'm aware, 'happy' promotions such as 'happy hour' and 'happy *day of week*' are illegal in Ireland.

You can have a "happy day", the actual law is that you can not lower the price upon opening. So many pubs might open at 5pm and put up prices at 7pm, this is like bars still allowed put up the price at 11.30 to cover late pub licence fees and "out of hour wages".

It is also open to loopholes, like they could have a cheap vodka that mysteriously only comes into stock at 7pm and runs out at 8pm each day.

Diceys (on harcourt street) is free in if you are there early enough, not sure of the time, maybe 8. It is €2 on tuesday, 3-wednesday, 3.50-thursday and 4 on fridays (last time I was in anyway which is maybe a month ago). This is for pints (even paulaner) and bottles, and on paricular days it is other things too, like jager bombs, or shots. Also burgers & curry chips or similar are the same price as the drinks on those days -dunno how they do it, its the only time I ever considered smuggling drink OUT of a pub!

I don't particularly like the place but its fine for a quick few at that price.

Guy:Incognito

Meh. €5 (on special down from €5.80) for 500ml of local cider in Clermont last week.

thesandeman

I think prices are dropping unless you want to be seen in a 'cool' pub. You can have a damm good Pub Crawl in Galway now for less than 30euro.
Was in Dublin last week and the most I paid for a pint was 3.80 (except for The Olympia which was 4.90 for a plastic Guinness but that a different scenario).

hdowney

all the pubs in my area charge 4.50 for a pint of bulmers! so can't even go to another pub instead. my local does a 3pints for a tenner offer weekdays often though which is quite good.

keithclancy

Was out in Amsterdam on Saturday, 6.00 for a 380ml glass of beer .. ffs

If I was less tipsy and gave a sh*te I would have went elsewhere.

wmpdd3

A brown bar?

mcwhirter

hdowney wrote: »

all the pubs in my area charge 4.50 for a pint of bulmers! so can't even go to another pub instead. my local does a 3pints for a tenner offer weekdays often though which is quite good.

3 for a tenner, not bad, where is that, is he independent?

hdowney

mcwhirter wrote: »

3 for a tenner, not bad, where is that, is he independent?

i haven't d foggiest if he is an indo - how do i tell!!!!

the leitrim in wicklow town

kevin99

Totally agree. I have given up drinking in Dublin city centre. A total ripoff and the publicans try to justify their exorbitant prices for a pint or short by quoting third party costs all the time. Yes commercial rates are too expensive and insurance costs are always on the up.
But the publicans increased their margins by 150% during the Celtic Tiger years and now they are paying a very heavy and expensive price for their selfishness.
I remember complaining to a barman in a pub off Grafton St about the price of the pint and he told me to go somewhere else if I didn't want to pay his prices, as 'there are plenty of people who will pay it'.
That was 2007. I looked into that pub on a Saturday evening the other week and it was empty. One fellow reading the paper and another watching football.
Oh yes a big TV plasma screen had been added since I was last there, but no customers to watch it.

PCPhoto wrote: »

try drinking in Dublin sometime ... prices have been above €5 per pint in most places for years.

if you paid it - then you are accepting the price.... if you consider it too expensive - walk away...goto another pub....and another pub...or just goto an off licence or supermarket and get some drinks to have at home.

kevin99

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

hdowney wrote: »

all the pubs in my area charge 4.50 for a pint of bulmers! so can't even go to another pub instead. my local does a 3pints for a tenner offer weekdays often though which is quite good.

Melion

There are some deals to be had in Shannon. One pub does €3 pints on a Friday, another does it on Saturday and another on Sunday. Just a shame id never drink in any of them so its €4.30 for a pint where i do drink

kevin99

kevin99 wrote: »

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

Eh no. It's called an offer.

:rolleyes:

hdowney

yea i mean i go in and order a pint. barman asks do i want 3for10. i think about it. if i am gonna drink three then yea deffo. if i only went in for 1, then no. i only pay for one. so i don't see the problem

keithclancy

kevin99 wrote: »

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

Man you must get really upset in Tesco

Jackovarian

kevin99 wrote: »

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

Ehhhhhhhh no. Thats not a cartel... A cartel (in the pub trade) is where a few pubs get together and set their prices to the same level, usually a high price.

thesandeman

Nope. Thats called A Temple Bar!

the groutch

rubadub wrote: »

So many pubs might open at 5pm and put up prices at 7pm, this is like bars still allowed put up the price at 11.30 to cover late pub licence fees and "out of hour wages".

would that not cause problems because of them being legally required to display prices outside the door? Lets say they charged the €4.50 on the display for a pint of whatever, and then tried charge a fiver later, they'd be putting themselves in the firing line.

Pacing Mule

What's stopping them changing the display price ?

rubadub

the groutch wrote: »

would that not cause problems because of them being legally required to display prices outside the door? Lets say they charged the €4.50 on the display for a pint of whatever, and then tried charge a fiver later, they'd be putting themselves in the firing line.

http://www.consumerconnect.ie/eng/Hot_Topics/Guides-to-Consumer-Law/Prices/Specific_price_displays.html

If the bar has a policy of increasing prices after a certain time (for instance, after 11pm), the prices on display should be those being charged at that time.

I wonder if all pubs do this?

Geuze

Some more prices, July 2011:


GALWAY: Murphy's and Freeney's, High street, Galway = 3.85

SLIGO

Typical town centre Guinness = 3.90-4.00

Beamish is available from 3.20 in Sligo

MEATH

Some towns have pubs selling Guinness at 3.55-3.60

Geuze

Brussels prices July 2011

Much more price dispersion than Ireland.

25cl of pils

As high as 2.50 = 5.68 per pint of Diekich pils in Au Bon Vieux Temps

But in nearby A l'Imaige Nostre Dame, it's 1.60 for 25cl of Jupiler pils = 3.64 per pint

Geuze

Amsterdam prices, July 2011

We paid about 2.00-2.40 in several pubs along Utrectestraat.

I'm not sure if the glass had 25cl or 30cl.

Assuming 30cl, then the prices are about 4.17 per pint

keithclancy

Geuze wrote: »

Brussels prices July 2011


But in nearby A l'Imaige Nostre Dame, it's 1.60 for 25cl of Jupiler pils = 3.64 per pint

I hate 25CL Beers, it's like having a shot :P

I have THE best Beer shop ever close to where I live ...
http://www.mitraslijterijvanbergen.nl/

mmmmmmmmmm

jack presley

4.90 for a pint of Guinness in the Dawson lounge!

keithclancy

jack presley wrote: »

4.90 for a pint of Guinness in the Dawson lounge!

4.50 for a 400ml Glass of Guinness in Duesseldorf

double GG

Ooppssss

finbarrk

€3.60 for Guinness in West Clare. €4 for beer. €18 for a large vodka and red bull in Temple Bar last year. I changed to Guinness after that.

run_Forrest_run

€3.50 for a great pint of Guinness in Fitzgerald's, Castlegregory Co. Kerry. how I miss it

maxer68

3pint pitcher of any tap beer €10 Clancys Athy. Any 5 long necks €15, Vodka and red bull type drink 4.50, vodka & coke €5. + its a great pub too.

yupyup7up

Pints are a rip off in this country.

I drink Paulaner so don't mind paying a little more but over 4.80(still very expensive) is ridiculous and happens frequently.

Bottles are worse - €6 for a bottle of desperados in a well known Limerick nightclub.

North of England is the place to go for drink. Liverpool and Newcastle are only about £2.30 a pint! Albeit the pints may not be as good, still though!