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  • #102
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    I guess I would write a glowing review if myself and family also "were guests of Winterval and Waterford Castle Hotel".

    Hardly an unbiased article in the circumstances.


  • #103
    Christy Browne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭Christy Browne


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    I guess I would write a glowing review if myself and family also "were guests of Winterval and Waterford Castle Hotel".

    Hardly an unbiased article in the circumstances.

    As long as they’re upfront about it I don’t see the issue


  • #104
    azimuth17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭azimuth17


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    I guess I would write a glowing review if myself and family also "were guests of Winterval and Waterford Castle Hotel".

    Hardly an unbiased article in the circumstances.
    Its called marketing (something Waterford obviously never does enough of ) and is a feature of every festival and major event in every town and city across the country. At least they were upfront about it.


  • #105
    dartboardio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    dzilla wrote: »
    Any stalls doing Gluhwein?

    Lol good luck getting a tiny can of beer in any of the stalls never mind that.


  • #106
    dzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭dzilla


    dartboardio wrote: »
    Lol good luck getting a tiny can of beer in any of the stalls never mind that.

    Pity. Understandable that Wintervil is very much for the kids etc but it is such a big part of the continental markets.


  • #107
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    dzilla wrote: »
    Pity. Understandable that Wintervil is very much for the kids etc but it is such a big part of the continental markets.

    Its far from Gluhwein you were rared on boy!


  • #108
    comeraghs
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭comeraghs


    azimuth17 wrote: »
    Its called marketing (something Waterford obviously never does enough of ) and is a feature of every festival and major event in every town and city across the country. At least they were upfront about it.

    Some folk won't be happy unless everyone else is miserable like them.


  • #109
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,892 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Only slight problem I have is the market near Christchurch gets quite crowded and congested but enjoyed the festival whenever I was down. The younglings enjoyed the Santa in the old sorting office

    Really adds to the city and hoping it's get bigger and bigger each year


  • #110
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    comeraghs wrote: »
    Some folk won't be happy unless everyone else is miserable like them.

    Maybe if you had presented your copy of the advertisement/'marketing blurb' as such, and not as
    Lovely positive article about Winterval in Today's Irish Independent.

    then a comment would not have been made.

    It has nothing at all to do with being miserable or otherwise, but all to do with your post misrepresenting all that followed ...... until one found the last line and realised it was just more marketing blurb copied by you.


  • #111
    Azatadine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Azatadine


    I'd say the emergence of other Christmas themed set ups around the country is killing Winterval in Waterford. The weather was shocking too and that didn't help.


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  • #112
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    Killing it? Didn't seem very dead any time I was around.


  • #113
    azimuth17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭azimuth17


    JohnC. wrote: »
    Killing it? Didn't seem very dead any time I was around.

    I actually thought it was very effective this year even with poor weather. Traffic volumes coming into town were very heavy especially at weekends. Our small kids loved it. There will always be competition.


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