Gresham Hotel €650 Patricks night standard room 1 night.

pat1981

Are their people out there that would actually spend that kind of money for 1 night in a standard room in Dublin. I know for €650 i'd be looking at tenerife for 1 week.:D

stovelid

Great value. I've just booked two.

You can be my minimum wage valet for the weekend if you want to plaintively press your nose against the window of real living for a change.

wandatowell

Balls to that, me car tax was due last week

krudler

pat1981 wrote: »

Are their people out there that would actually spend that kind of money for 1 night in a standard room in Dublin. I know for €650 i'd be looking at tenerife for 1 week.:D

or go somewhere good :pac:

RichieC

That's what's wrong with this country.

saywhatyousee

RichieC wrote: »

That's what's wrong with this country.

Just an overpriced hotel room?good to know

Turtyturd

Support local businesses people.

gosuckonalemon

pat1981 wrote: »

Are their people out there that would actually spend that kind of money for 1 night in a standard room in Dublin. I know for €650 i'd be looking at tenerife for 1 week.:D

Plenty of people would be willing to pay that. Most likely wealthy Americans. People who have that kind of money would have no interest in a one week sun holiday in Tenerife. Completely different worlds....

kc66

I stayed in it around a year ago and the room wasn't great at all. Very small and old.

Fittle

Where did you get your info from OP?

I just checked their website and they would charge me 230euro for a room on Paddy's nite.

RichieC

saywhatyousee wrote: »

Just an overpriced hotel room?good to know

Gougery.

biko

Fittle wrote: »

Where did you get your info from OP?

I just checked their website and they would charge me 230euro for a room on Paddy's nite.

Same here, I see no prices even close to what OP suggested.

Darlughda

http://www.bookin1.com/bookingEngine/new_stage2.jsp?src=hotelier&ref=hotelier&hotelId=186&hotelCode=TGD&colourScheme=null&search=null&ad=17&am=3:2011&noNights=1&noAdults=2&noChildren=0&noInfants=0&noRooms=1&promoCode=Optional%20Promo%20Code&userLang=en

€180 for a standard room at the Gresham on Paddys night if you don't have breakfast!

mikemac

Far, far better hotels in Dublin and in better locations too

Fittle

feelingstressed wrote: »

Far, far better hotels in Dublin and in better locations too

Not if you want to see the parade:D

Methinks the OP works for a hotel....and it ain't the Gresham...

deathrider

I really doubt this price is trying to attract Irish people (if anyone), it's there to grab the cash from fat americans' fat wallets while they're on "vacation" over here for Paddy's day because their great granny was Irish.

pickarooney

Fittle wrote: »

Where did you get your info from OP?

I just checked their website and they would charge me 230euro for a room on Paddy's nite.

Darlughda wrote: »

http://www.bookin1.com/bookingEngine/new_stage2.jsp?src=hotelier&ref=hotelier&hotelId=186&hotelCode=TGD&colourScheme=null&search=null&ad=17&am=3:2011&noNights=1&noAdults=2&noChildren=0&noInfants=0&noRooms=1&promoCode=Optional%20Promo%20Code&userLang=en

€180 for a standard room at the Gresham on Paddys night if you don't have breakfast!

Breakfast is 50 euros??

RichieC

deathrider wrote: »

I really doubt this price is trying to attract Irish people (if anyone), it's there to grab the cash from fat americans' fat wallets while they're on "vacation" over here for Paddy's day because their great granny was Irish.

Oh that's okay then, people who leave the country feeling mugged will tell all their friends and then they will all come to be mugged. :rolleyes:

Mushy

I'll pay €900 for the privilege of being able to pay that price for the room if anyone beats me to it!

Darlughda

pickarooney wrote: »

Breakfast is 50 euros??

Must be great rashers.

deathrider

RichieC wrote: »

Oh that's okay then, people who leave the country feeling mugged will tell all their friends and then they will all come to be mugged. :rolleyes:

Or at least feel disgruntled and start threads on boards about it :pac:

ejmaztec

Darlughda wrote: »

Must be great rashers.

I find that those diamond-encrusted bacon rinds play havoc with my stomach though, but well worth the pain.:(

biko

OP, PM a mod with source. Now it's look like taken from thin air.

PM from OP, reopened for update.

pat1981

Fittle wrote: »

Where did you get your info from OP?

I just checked their website and they would charge me 230euro for a room on Paddy's nite.

Book online or call 00353 1 65 69 439 Standard rates apply24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Your Booking Summary.


Tripadvisor website/gresham hotel/17.03.11 for 1 night/hotels.com €650. sorry don't know how to link but I copied and pasted here, and btw I dont work in hotel industry.
The Gresham Hotel
Dublin, IE
Check in: 17/03/2011
Check out: 18/03/2011

1 × Standard Double, Breakfast not included
Average Nightly Rate €572.69 Total
(including taxes & fees) €650.01 Full payment will be charged to your credit card when you book this hotel. 1 night × 1 room €572.69


Taxes & fees €77.32

sunflower27

Is the penthouse suite still available?

biko

650 it is http://www.hotels.com/hotel/details.html?reviewOrder=date_newest_first&roomno=1&departureDate=18-03-2011&destinationId=691513&rooms[0].numberOfAdults=1&tab=prices&arrivalDate=17-03-2011&hotelId=115137&validate=false&destination=Dublin%2C+Ireland#description

680 with breakfast
http://www.booking.com/hotel/ie/the-gresham.html?aid=309842&label=hotel-40254&utm_source=tripad&utm_medium=SPPC&utm_content=text-cr&utm_term=hotel-40254&do_availability_check=on&checkin_monthday=17&checkin_year_month=2011-03&checkout_monthday=18&checkout_year_month=2011-03

Sorry for doubting OP but no link = rumour.

TheZohanS

Shouldn't this be posted in Bargain Alerts?

pickarooney

Damn, tripadvisor is annoying. 5 popups evaded my blocker.

nlgbbbblth

feelingstressed wrote: »

and in better locations too

SALT OF THE EARTH.

Fittle

But if you go to their website directly, it's nowhere near that cost.

ejmaztec

If I ever paid that much, I would assume that I'd bought the entire contents of the room, and would make damn sure that I brought a furniture van with me, so that I remove my new stuff the following morning.

sollar

RichieC wrote: »

Gougery.

begougery

Nodin

RichieC wrote: »

Gougery.

...but not, from the appearance of things, by the Gresham.

johnmcdnl

lots of millionaires out there with money too burn...

-Corkie-

I was going to say WOW someone dragged up a zombie thread from 2006 until I scrolled back up and see todays date.....:eek:

AnonoBoy

I can get you a room in the Gresham for 45 euro.

PM me for details folks.

Azureus

Dublin Skylon hotel €379 for a standard room on Paddys night. Cant believe how much prices jump by, its usually in around €80 !

AnonoBoy

Azureus wrote: »

Dublin Skylon hotel €379 for a standard room on Paddys night. Cant believe how much prices jump by, its usually in around €80 !

Well sh*t load of tourists come over for 'de craick agoose de keyole' so demand is high.

mickdw

Its a bit silly picking the higher price to be found on some website and saying that this is what the hotel is charging when the hotels own site is showing a fraction of this price.
I regularily book on hotels.com etc and there are always hotels listed at 450 etc which are widely available elsewhere or even further down the same listing at maybe 70 to 80 euro. It would be a fool that would actually pick the top price option.

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I can get you a room in the Gresham for 45 euro.

Is that available all year round:D?

AnonoBoy

mickdw wrote: »

Is that available all year round:D?

Yup. I can only deliver it to you at weekends though and under cover of darkness.

Ceiling is obviously not included.

Caveat_

I'd hate to be poor.

Biggins

Caveat_ wrote: »

I'd hate to be poor.

Your a Fianna Failer aren't you!

Dionysus

Fittle wrote: »

But if you go to their website directly, it's nowhere near that cost.

Nodin wrote: »

...but not, from the appearance of things, by the Gresham.

Exactly. This thread is doing an injustice to The Gresham. It's Booking.com and Hotels.com who are each charging €650 (excluding breakfast) for a double room in The Gresham on St Patrick's night.

blorg

The prices on those sites are set directly by the hotel, not the site operator.

Fighting Irish

RichieC wrote: »

That's what's wrong with this country.

supply and demand

rossie1977

krudler wrote: »

or go somewhere good :pac:

tenerife is really nice, 12,00ft+ volcano, cliffs that make moher look short, masca valley, whale and dolphin watching a mile or so from the shore and of course about the only place in place in europe where you are almost guaranteed sun and at least 20 degrees in winter

though you can do a week there for alot less than €600

Run_to_da_hills

€650 for one night in the Gresham ROFL, they would want to be wiping your arse at that price.

imitation

Clearly targeted at some rich tourist who doesn't know what these "euro" things are.

Just to add to the conversation, does anybody else find hotels manky places in general ? I used to think it was grand, cable tv, minibar, pub and restaurant just down stairs. Then after staying in ones for a few months with work I started to see small things that make you realise that hundreds of people have probably been in this room in the past year alone. I found some chewing gum on the outside of a blanket once. Then you realise that its being cleaned by minimum wage workers who probably get treated like crap.

Biggins

As the saying goes "If you have to look at the price tag, you probably can't afford it!"

Sonnenblumen

Must make Failte Ireland efforts in UK this week a complete waste of time and money.

Anyways the Gresham is a dive! Cead mile and all that crap. Paddy the Greed alive and well.:o

eternal

I have actually found Irish hotels to be of a much higher standard then their European counterparts.
Hotel in Spain I stayed in was so small ,the bed was minature ,I was hanging off the side of it.this was a four star hotel .Here youd get big bed ,huge room ,much more luxurious.