Dublin Airport, Terminal 1, near gate 204 selling Sandwiches at exorbitant prices.

tinytobe

At Dublin Airport, Terminal one, near gate 204 they are selling packaged sandwiches at a price for around Euro 8.50. That's utter madness considering there is nothing really special about them.

The usual prices for similar sandwiches in Dublin are between 3 and 4 Euros, and maybe 5 or 6 Euros for really bigger ones.

Are people really buying them at these prices?

gipi

Been awhile since I saw a sandwich for around the 3 euro mark - even the plastic sandwiches in the likes of Costa are at least a fiver.

As for Dublin airport pricing? Captive audience, simples!

Strumms

Captive audience… absolutely

the airport was always expensive for food going way back…

yes there are extra costs involved in operating at an airport but also there is captive footfall for about 18 - 19 hours of 24.. maybe more with early AM summer charters….

gossamerfabric

If you want your choice of routes to improve then always give your trade to the Airlines, not the Concessions in the Airport. Once passenger cap is lifted airlines making good profit out of Dublin will offer more routes.

the 12 th man

Most airports are famous for it now,Turkish airports everything about double what it should be in the towns/resorts,French airports well known for it too.

SteM

Nothing new, Seinfeld was doing routines about it in the early 90s

Jerry: Do you think that the people at the airport that run the stores have any idea what the prices are every place else in the world? Or do you think they just feel they have their own little country out there and they can charge anything they want? "You hungry? Tuna sandwich is nine dollars. You don't like it? Go back to your own country." I think the whole airport airline complex is a huge scam just to sell the tuna sandwiches. I think that profit is what's supporting the whole air travel industry. I mean think about it. The terminals, the airplanes, it's all just a distraction so that you don't notice the beating that you're taking on the tuna.

elperello

Do yourself a favour and bring a bit of grub from home.

Cheese sandwich, apple and KitKat about €2.50.

My standard fare for years now.

Kaisr Sose

Some other trolley in the RA departure area selling filter coffee for the same money as barista coffee.

No idea what the concession costs but that's just a rip off. Everything about Dublin Airport is substandard for top price. T1 is horrible and T2 looks like its already due a refurb. Go to somewhere like Zurich to see an airport designed for people. The price of food etc is high but % wise not marked up as much as in Dublin.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121810069#Comment_121810069

This!

The most I've bought either in the airport or on a flight in years is a cup of coffee.

Spanish Eyes

Agree with @elperello. I'm not mean but I just like plain stuff, so a cheese sandwich, a banana and maybe a couple of plain muffins, and I'm good to go. Keep some for the plane. On the way back I'll just bring a bag of scoff consisting of the local cake like delicacy that's easy to eat and some fruit. I wouldn't eat in the airport unless I'm delayed. Extortionate mundane craaap and the sit down places are like a flippin zoo anyway.

VG31

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121810116#Comment_121810116

Go to somewhere like Zurich to see an airport designed for people. The price of food etc is high but % wise not marked up as much as in Dublin.

Zürich is a great airport but the prices are outrageous. It was CHF 7.60 for a coffee in 2022.

suvigirl

Sure once you go through security at any airport, prices are unreal!

Everyone knows that, either be prepared to pay ridiculous prices, or bring your own grub.

Zico

Food tastes different at altitude maybe they're charging for the experience if you eat it on the plane.

chrisd2019

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058337653/dublin-airport-terminal-1-near-gate-204-selling-sandwiches-at-exorbitant-prices

overpriced food and drink is normal at airports, captured clientele, bring your own food !

Kaisr Sose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121810164#Comment_121810164

It's expensive, but priced for Swiss economy. Minimum wage is 24chf which is high, but inflation is low, things don't go up like they do here and sometimes go down.

Also, the problem for us in Euro land is the current weakness of the Euro and strength of CHF, now less than 1chf for a euro.

I worked over there. I never felt I was being ripped off for anything. I do feel that in Ireland. In 2002, a euro bought 1.4 CHF , strengthening to 1.65ch in 2005/6. If visiting at those rates, Switzerland would not expensive.

(Airport coffee would be €4.50)

All said, Ireland is also an expensive country, more expensive than many other European countries.

Hopefully the euro strengthens and we can afford to splurdge on a Zurich airport coffee. It's nice.😄

tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121810251#Comment_121810251

This is the classic Irish answer.

We are not alone on this and others are doing it as well.

Whilst higher prices on airports do exist, I've never noticed it that extreme as in Dublin. A sandwich for slightly above Euro 8.50 is more than a bit abnormal.

bodhrandude

I presume Dublin Airport has a WH Smith store or is it Boots in Ireland, surely you've heard of the Meal Deal, a sandwich, soft drink and bag of crisps for about 7 Euro.

VG31

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121811949#Comment_121811949

Dublin Airport has both WH Smith and Boots. The meal deal in the former is €7.95. That's pretty good value. Good luck with finding a deal like that in western European airports outside Ireland and the UK.

To be fair to Butlers and Boots, they don't seem to charge any more than in their non-airport locations.

Jonathan2712

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121810116#Comment_121810116

Your kidding right? Zurich is a nice airport but I bough a sandwich and a juice there last week for Euro 18! I fly most weeks for work and have passed though a fair few airport doing this for almost 10 years now. Dublin isn't the best airport nor the cheapest, but it is a LONG way from being a bad airport or overpriced (when compared to airports, not the real world obviously)

Grayson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121810251#Comment_121810251

And terminal 1 is still far better than terminal 2. the food and service in terminal 2 is woeful.

JVince

Hope op never flies through US airports.

$27 for basic sandwich and coffee in Baltimore

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121818198#Comment_121818198

Maccer will have special airport prices sure enough

Dodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121818175#Comment_121818175

€17 for a pint of Heineken in Zurich 2 years ago.

€11 for a burger (not a meal) in Burger King in Copenhagen airport 5 years ago

€10ish for a Diet Coke and a small Pringles in Philadelphia 7 years ago.

just some of the prices that have stuck with me. As has been said, airport mark up has always existed and Dublin isn’t the worst

Viscount Aggro

795c is not a meal deal.

Go to Dunnes before you travel.... 399c.

miamee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121811978#Comment_121811978

Yep I came here to say if you have to buy food in the airport and don't want to spend a small fortune, a meal deal from Boots will sort you out. Don't wait until you get to the gates :) For some people a pint and a bite to eat at the airport is all part of the holiday experience but I fear the prices will be stopping this for some.

deandean

I bring two rounds of sandwiches to the airport, there's no problem getting them through security. I have one while waiting at the departure gate, and the other after I've landed. It's saved me $$$ over the years.

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121818648#Comment_121818648

I wish people would stop thinking that a processed sandwich and a big of crisps is an actual meal.

Yeah Right

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121818355#Comment_121818355

I went through Brussels airport in May last year. Didn't have time to get something local before we went to the airport, so I checked out the food hall when we arrived. For me and the missus and the wee fella, three burger meals consisting of burger, chips drink and a fruit/granola cup thingy would have cost..........€99.90!

Seriously €33.30 for a burger meal each. Think I've a photo somewhere......

Kaisr Sose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121818175#Comment_121818175

See my other post.

taratee

Wouldn't buy food in Dublin airport or the majority of airports for that matter. My biggest issue with T1 is the state of the toilets. They are nothing short of disgusting at times.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121811978#Comment_121811978

Butlers charge a little more in Dublin airport. Passed through T1 a few weeks ago and the shop was closed. Looks like they are opening a new shop; a bigger one, across from Starbucks.

Ray Palmer

It is really simple the airports charge huge rent and the shops will never own the property so prices are high.

Saw a video where duty free is more expensive in airports than local supermarkets in Prague

Nothing uniquely Irish in what is going on historically and at present

whisky_galore

Airport in expensive food shocker.

beachhead

Yes,not exactly news.Standards going down every year and prices go up.

homer911

Eason used to own the Books/News/Sweets franchise at Dublin Airport but when it went out to tender again, they were happy to walk away and leave it to WHS - the rent they had to DAA made it completely unviable, but then they never did sandwiches..

Strumms

Think I’ll just make a pasta dish and throw it in a tupperware container next time…. Pick up a plastic fork / knife I’m sure some place… one of the pubs,, shops or other eateries wherever there…. It’s gone nutsville.

I see sheep

Burger King in Dublin Airport has reasonable prices.

taratee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121832376#Comment_121832376

Is there one airside in T1?

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121833752#Comment_121833752

Yes, it's up the escalator after the duty free.