almostover wrote: » How can people afford holidays abroad if they cant afford one in Ireland? I've been on heaps of cheap holidays in Ireland. I grew up in a working class family and we always had our holidays in Ireland or took the ferry to the UK because anything else was too expensive. It sounds like an excuse to me. I've a holiday booked in Ireland at the end of this month that's very reasonable, doubt I could match it abroad taking into account flights, transfers, travel insurance, airport parking, taxis etc. I suppose if you're into drinking 10 pints of lager a day in some cheap imitation Irish bar in Spain for 10 days it's different. Food and drink can be expensive here but you get what you pay for. The best meals I've had have been in Irish restaraunts. We should be making excuses to stay in Ireland to protect our health system and boost our hospitality sector as much as possible
cupcakedan wrote: » Such an attitude, when I was young my family never went on holiday. I didn’t know what that was. Not everybody wants to go on holidays to guzzle 10 pints a day. When my husband and I had a pre teen and a toddler, we holidayed round Ireland but hotel didn’t suit as we had no freedom for us all, We liked to rent out a holiday home, but it was so expensive ever year. Then for my husbands fortieth birthday I priced Austria, flights, car hire, chalet F1 tickets (Formula1 fan), quess what it was cheaper than holidaying at home. This year would have been our fourth year going to Austria and to the Grand Prix. We were so looking forward to it and our kids were the same. We went back to the same chalet every year up in the alps. There was nowhere in Ireland like it. Scenery to die for. Food half the price as here, same as the restaurants we dined at.
H8GHOTI wrote: » Went to Tenerife last week. Probably the best travel experience of my life.
Plumbthedepths wrote: » My wife and I went to Italy last year for 9 days. 2nd to the 12th August. Flights €290/ car hire €140 euro. Multi centre stays. Siena /Bologna/ Lucca/ Lazise/ Ferrara. Cost of accommodation was €600 total. €1030 excluding spending money. Very affordable and Italian prices for eating out and drinking are considerably less than here.
almostover wrote: » Dont get me wrong I've been on cheap holidays abroad too. Problem is that people are putting money before their health. And more importantly the collective health of our society, both physical and economic health. We're being asked to holiday at home to protect the vulernable in society and to help keep our hospitality sector afloat.
almostover wrote: » We're being asked to holiday at home to protect the vulernable in society and to help keep our hospitality sector afloat.
Sheep Shagger wrote: » A trip to Tenerife was the best travel experience of your life as was no Q for checking in baggage? Really? Can only assume you are very young with a statement like that.
almostover wrote: » I've been to Austria, it ain't cheap. Formula 1 is notoriously expensive as an event to attend. I reckon if you put half the effort into booking a holiday in Ireland you would find something very reasonably priced. What bugs me is we were all in it to suppress COVID-19 at the start. But now that the reality is dawning on us that this is going to be a sustained effort we're coming up with every excuse going to complain and try to go about our lives as we did pre-pandemic. COVID-19 is now more widespread worldwide than it ever was and people are on here clamouring to go travelling. We're not being asked to do much to keep those most vulnerable in our society safe. Practice good hygiene, wear a mask in shops, don't meet up in large crowds and don't leave the county unless absolutely necessary. It's not much to ask. We now can go out for meals and a drink and go anywhere in Ireland. Most sports are back too. There is lots to live for. The precautions are minor inconveniences in the grand scheme of things.
cupcakedan wrote: » I don’t know where you’ve stayed in Austria but it’s not what we’ve experienced. We’ve holidayed in Donegal, Bray, Youghal & Killarney with the kids and the accommodation was rough and we paid through the nose for comfort. Kids under 16 are free for general admission at the Austrian Grand Prix. We’ve never spent more than €150 for 4 tickets. We’ve seen plenty of action for that section. Flights with Lufthansa on average about €400 & chalet €700. We’ve always gone for 11 days holiday. Car hire €400. We've done the Grossglockner, halstatt, Salzburg, Dachstein, zell am see, Kitzbühel, Krimml waterfalls, Brenner pass to name a few. We didn’t go to Austria this year because of Covid 19 I’m heartbroken we didn’t as I love it there but I wouldn’t risk my family’s health or any one else’s over it. My son who is 5 keeps saying can we go to Austria when virus is over, that’s the sad part. I won’t be spending over €1000 for less than a week to holiday at home. I’ll save my hard earned money for when we feel safe to travel.
Ray Donovan wrote: » Ya I really feel for your 5 year old who can't go to Austria this year. God love him. Do you think he'll ever get over it? Hopefully with some counselling. Back in the real world there are Irish children eating their dinners off plastic plates while sitting on the ground in O'Connell St.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » I know I will be considered a snob or something similar, but most Spanish resorts be they in Torrevieja or Benalmadena or Torre del Mar etc.are just manufactured drinking dens with a beach umbrella and Tapas. But that's just my view. I really cannot understand the attraction, but each to their own. Everyone is different.Spain really needs to move their economy to embrace all the other wonderful things that country has to offer. They started with the Camino de Santiago, and more recently the Caminito del Rey, both of which I have experienced. Then there are the wonderful cities of Vallodilid, Segovia, San Sebastian and so on, there is an endless list. It is just like tourists coming to Dublin and going straight to Temple Bar. Times will change.
votecounts wrote: » Just a quick question to those who have been abroad recently or going in the next few weeks if not on the apparent green list, did you or intend to self isolate/ restrict your movements when you come back.
Plumbthedepths wrote: » I have a friend that's going to Dublin next week for a few days, I think he should self isolate when he comes back. My county only had one new case 2 days ago. What do you think?
votecounts wrote: » that's a no then.
Plumbthedepths wrote: » Would you care to respond to my post? Reason why I ask is to give you an opportunity not to climb on to what I assume is an incredibly high horse
acequion wrote: » I'm back tomorrow after 10 days in my own home in Spain. I'm happy to be coming back as I'm missing loved ones in Ireland. But the kind of ignorance I read on this thread from people saying skip Spain for one year won't kill ye and listening to this Professor Skally on RTE radio news today saying if we only stopped travel we'd get to zero, we'd have life back to normal but we couldn't travel. What part of Ireland is in Europe do people not understand? What part of freedom of movement, connectivity,openness, all the wonderful things that Europe brought to our once insular island do people not understand? And what part of people living lives in two parts of Europe with properties and loved ones in two parts as I do and many others like me, do people not understand? For people like me connectivity is a life line. And this clever professor that says we should close down the country to get to zero and then what? If the rest of Europe and the world is still behind us do we still batten down the hatches locking people in and out? For how long exactly? I was glad to hear Mc Grath afterwards saying no we can't close down and we can't enforce quarantine as we're in the EU. Yes ambiguous and bullshytty I agree and so typical of the crap we get from politicians in Ireland but at least people can still travel. I feel very sorry for people whose work compromises them re this restriction on return malarky. But people who are obeying this bullshyt and losing money on cancelled trips just because the Govt says that's what they must do are for the birds! It's anti travel propaganda to suit a new administration that is feeding on hysteria just so they can get their basic jobs done ie open schools and keep our uselessly funded hospitals from going under. And somehow people think that repressing the population via media propaganda etc [we're all in this together :rolleyes:] when no other European country is daring to do so, is ok! And stigmatising those who do travel? Nothing like that here in Spain! I really am going back to that oppressive place with a very heavy heart. I remember feeling like that way back in the 80's when the church had everyone in thrall. Really what has changed?
votecounts wrote: » my question was to do with abroad, don't know why you brought dublin in to it.
Plumbthedepths wrote: » There was more recorded cases in Dublin today than where I'm travelling to next month. So once again have you any opinion on a traveller heading to Dublin from a low case county, should they isolate on return?
votecounts wrote: » no i dont think anyone should isolate coming from dublin and i take it you won't restrict your movements even though you may be required to do so.
