Shannon Airport

venomousfrog

Hi wasn't sure where to post this.

Does anyone know if there are any McDonalds/Burger King in Shannon Airport, will be driving from Dublin at 3am to get there and was hoping there was might a fast food outlet their ?

Sh1tbag OToole

Not in Shannon itself but probably along the way somewhere

another36

U can get food at the airport but there is a Mc D in the town of Shannon.

Hans Bricks

I was expecting a political OP on US military use of the airport and it turns out to be query on the nearest fast food outlet haha

HensVassal

Make a big lunchbox of ham sandwiches and a flask of tea.

Much better.

davo2001

venomousfrog wrote: »

Hi wasn't sure where to post this.

Does anyone know if there are any McDonalds/Burger King in Shannon Airport, will be driving from Dublin at 3am to get there and was hoping there was might a fast food outlet their ?

There is a McDonalds in Shannon town itself, 3 mins from the airpot, but it doesn't open till 7am. There is no fast food outlet in the airport.

venomousfrog

davo2001 wrote: »

There is a McDonalds in Shannon town itself, 3 mins from the airpot, but it doesn't open till 7am. There is no fast food outlet in the airport.

Ok thanks, a big lunchbox with ham sandwiches and flask of tae it is !

Flight is at 7am and wont have time to stop anywhere on way down. I heard the restaurant's in this airport are terrible.

On a totally unrelated note, Burger King have a history of following US troops on their 'operations' worldwide.

As soon as the US military arrived in Iraq, Burger King were hot on its heels, establishing special outlets for serving soldiers.

Alas, as soon as the military left, so did Burger King.

They didn't leave those unfortunate people a decent fast food outlet, let alone democracy.

FortySeven

venomousfrog wrote: »

Ok thanks, a big lunchbox with ham sandwiches and flask of tae it is !

Flight is at 7am and wont have time to stop anywhere on way down. I heard the restaurant's in this airport are terrible.

There is a restaurant. It is terrible, like a 1980s canteen. Be closed at that time.

kneemos

You sound like a man in a hurry.

Have you considered adult nappies?

venomousfrog

FortySeven wrote: »

There is a restaurant. It is terrible, like a 1980s canteen. Be closed at that time.

Yeah I was told it was way over priced for the ****e they serve and the staff are useless and couldn't careless. Just wanted a quick fix and grab a McD's Breakfast and the get the flock out of there.

Grandeeod

The Zest food market opened in Departures last month. Its nice. Opens at 5.30am. They'll do you a takeaway too. The Sheridan Food Pub in departures is open 24 hours. You need a boarding pass to use it. Not sure if it does food that early though and last time I was in it, the food was crap. Zest from now on.

beach_walker

Hans Bricks wrote: »

I was expecting a political OP on US military use of the airport and it turns out to be query on the nearest fast food outlet haha

Are they still using it? I know it was hosting less and less of US military flights but unsure of its current usage.

biko

Couple hang sandwiches and a flask of tae, be grand.

Zxclnic

biko wrote: »

Couple hang sandwiches and a flask of tae, be grand.

Though make sure that both the ham and the bread are just past their 'best before' date and that the tae is tepid....ah, the taste of Ireland.

panda100

beach_walker wrote:

Are they still using it? I know it was hosting less and less of US military flights but unsure of its current usage.

Yes it is still very much being used as a base for US military

munchkin_utd

surely you could spare 5minutes somewhere along the road to get a coffee and a sandwitch and just eat it on the go.
Roads will be empty so a bit of swerving wont cause any damage.

topper75

panda100 wrote: »

Yes it is still very much being used as a base for US military

You can also get normal flights as a normal person to normal destinations.

sorry - just think that point often gets lost in the online discussion polemics and wanted to re-emphasise.

Come off the motorway at the dock road in Limerick and get a breakfast roll in Centra. It's 24 hour and usually have a fresh deli in the middle of the night for taxi drivers, emergency services etc. Straight out to the airport then.

mickdw

Im shocked. I thought shannon being a large international airport with much transatlantic traffic would be something similar to dublin in terms of bars and food choices etc.
From what's said in this thread, the place must be a shambles.

Grandeeod

mickdw wrote: »

Im shocked. I thought shannon being a large international airport with much transatlantic traffic would be something similar to dublin in terms of bars and food choices etc.
From what's said in this thread, the place must be a shambles.

Yeah it is alright. SAA have recently issued tenders for the catering side of things, so the must know its terrible. The airside bar, Sheridans, has been run into the ground over the last couple of years and the SAA were hoping for new operators to start next month.

munchkin_utd

mickdw wrote: »

Im shocked. I thought shannon being a large international airport with much transatlantic traffic would be something similar to dublin in terms of bars and food choices etc.
From what's said in this thread, the place must be a shambles.

Shannon is not busy.
Dublin has more flights in an hour than Shannon in a day.
So you cannot expect the same service at Dublin airport which has a many thousands of passengers per hour in the Morning (dozens of flights per hour) compared to a few hundred from Shannon on one or 2 flights per hour.

realdanbreen

Why not call into Barack O'Bamas service station out side Roscrea?

venomousfrog

realdanbreen wrote: »

Why not call into Barack O'Bamas service station out side Roscrea?

We thought about going to the 24 hour Service Stations/Spars/Centra etc but we just wanted to park the car , grab a burger and a pint and go for a smoke , get on the plane and leave..... thanks for your tips ! :rolleyes:

realdanbreen

venomousfrog wrote: »

We thought about going to the 24 hour Service Stations/Spars/Centra etc but we just wanted to park the car , grab a burger and a pint and go for a smoke , get on the plane and leave..... thanks for your tips ! :rolleyes:

You seem to be in a bit of a rush. Why did you need to drive from Dublin to Shannon to get a flight?

munchkin_utd

realdanbreen wrote: »

You seem to be in a bit of a rush. Why did you need to drive from Dublin to Shannon to get a flight?

when the only 2 flights are to the UK anyhow at that time of the (not very busy) morning