Never let me hear about kerry hospitality services again

wpd wrote: »

Try to save my money and go away to Spain or Portugal rather than holiday in Ireland
Find it expensive and unless you drink, very boring

would prefer to stay in my back garden than holiday in Kerry.

Are you that famous grumpy guy that didn’t like St Patrick’s day with the yanks ?!

https://youtu.be/0Z-dbFhQBmQ

Heading to Killarney in the morning. Will go to 3 places and hope for the best.

John_Rambo wrote: »

No kids after 8.30pm in a fine dining adult basted establishment would be understandable.
No kids after 9pm in a gastro pub is understandable.
No kids allowed in a hard drinking pub should be encouraged.

There's no extra menus needed anywhere, there's just kids meals at the bottom of the regular menu. Any "proper" dining establishments that I work with are professionally trained & capable of catering for families throughout the dining service, if they aren't they're simply incapable, not up to speed, penny pinching or gouging. An incredulous 5.30pm stop on family service is unreasonable and an obvious gouger.

Most reasonable children would understand this, let alone adults.

8:30 and 9pm, thats laughable.. And if an establishment doesn't sing from your hymn sheet, you imply they are incapable of good service.
And you keep bandying about the term gouger without any reason or evidence. Simpleton behaviour and attitudes to the fore.

Sam Hain wrote: »

8:30 and 9pm, thats laughable.. And if an establishment doesn't sing from your hymn sheet, you imply they are incapable of good service.
And you keep bandying about the term gouger without any reason or evidence. Simpleton behaviour and attitudes to the fore.

5.30 is way to early to shut of a restaurant for kids.

Especially during these times with the goverment spending fortunes trying to encourage Irish familys to stay in Ireland instead of going abroad and help out stricken Irish hotels and restaurants to recover.

Familys are just getting back from a day out sightseeing and a restaurant is effectivly closed off to them at 5.30.

These are the type of buisnesses that you struggle to have sympathy for when they are crying about losing buissness.

If you are employing this policy then 7.30 should be the cut off and even at that these are exceptional times for familys where they have decided to don the green jersey and holidayed here instead of more family friendly cheaper foreign countries involved in tourism,and i say that as someone who has a low tolerence towards badly behaved children in restaurants.

As for the pig who wouldnt even put a bit of kitchen towel around the cone,he should be reported because this is standard hygeine practise, even outside of a pandemic and the people on here who profess to be involved in the industry and calling the OP an "awkward customer" tells you a lot about them and some of the people involved in the industry.

John_Rambo wrote: »

No kids after 8.30pm in a fine dining adult basted establishment would be understandable.
No kids after 9pm in a gastro pub is understandable.
No kids allowed in a hard drinking pub should be encouraged.

There's no extra menus needed anywhere, there's just kids meals at the bottom of the regular menu. Any "proper" dining establishments that I work with are professionally trained & capable of catering for families throughout the dining service, if they aren't they're simply incapable, not up to speed, penny pinching or gouging. An incredulous 5.30pm stop on family service is unreasonable and an obvious gouger.

Most reasonable children would understand this, let alone adults.

We’ve done some Michelin star restaurants in Spain and Germany with a child (probably first time at the age of 3-4). Never had any problem or made felt awkward in any way.

I do find that find that dining and drinking in Ireland with kids can sometimes be made awkward in a way I haven’t seen in other places.

embraer170 wrote: »

I do find that find that dining and drinking in Ireland with kids can sometimes be made awkward in a way I haven’t seen in other places.

It's an old fashioned attitude upheld by uncultured people who feel kids shouldn't be on Ryanair flights (buses with wings) or restaurants & who think taking a flight or eating out is a once a year occasion, equitable to going to the opera.

Fortunately it's waning now and restaurants in Ireland are frequently becoming more European & family friendly.

The DayDream wrote: »

And people wonder why service industry workers would rather stay on the PUP than go back to work and deal with Karens like this getting their knickers in a twist over someone touching their fkin ice cream cone.

It is actually in HSE food service guidelines. Ice cream cones should not be handled with bare hands. I assume it is because in many cases it will the same person preparing the ice cream and processing the payment.

Just spent the last two days in Killarney. I’ve never seen anything like the bar staff/waitressing. Absolutely horrendous. I thought London was ****e.

The bars are so bad that when they’d eventually come to take your order I’d get two pints at a time. It wasn’t for lack of staff either. Even trying to pay a bill. I had to ask in one place 3 times for the bill.

We had breakfast yesterday morning in “the shire” lovely looking place tbf. 50 minutes after sitting down our breakfast arrived. The place was half empty at that stage. The lady says “so sorry the wait, you won’t be charged for your coffees, would you like another? Herself says “yes please” The coffee never arrived. Surely to God you make sure that customer is sorted after all that - no.

I genuinely never complain anywhere. I just put up with it but I had to let people know just how bad the service is.

Killarney is beautiful though. We had dinner in “Rob’s Ranch” the 2nd night. That was excellent but every other bar/restaurant was shocking.

fits wrote: »

I’m trying to remember the name of that brilliant restaurant in Dingle. Had one of the best meals of my life in it. It didn’t have a star. They opened two years too early I’d say. Would be flying now. And was definitely a candidate for a star


I go to Dingle at least twice a year and have done so all my life. It is expensive now if you want to eat out every night but there are some very good restaurants. We don’t really eat out often so don’t pay too much attention to price when we do.

Global village?
Or the shack down by the marina?

Idás it was called.

Tilikum17 wrote: »

Just spent the last two days in Killarney. I’ve never seen anything like the bar staff/waitressing. Absolutely horrendous. I thought London was ****e.

The bars are so bad that when they’d eventually come to take your order I’d get two pints at a time. It wasn’t for lack of staff either. Even trying to pay a bill. I had to ask in one place 3 times for the bill.

We had breakfast yesterday morning in “the shire” lovely looking place tbf. 50 minutes after sitting down our breakfast arrived. The place was half empty at that stage. The lady says “so sorry the wait, you won’t be charged for your coffees, would you like another? Herself says “yes please” The coffee never arrived. Surely to God you make sure that customer is sorted after all that - no.

I genuinely never complain anywhere. I just put up with it but I had to let people know just how bad the service is.

Killarney is beautiful though. We had dinner in “Rob’s Ranch” the 2nd night. That was excellent but every other bar/restaurant was shocking.

The shire would be known for being sloppy enough locally from what I've heard. It's like it tries to be several things, pub, cafe, "gastropub", take out service, etc and it's a failure because they are trying too much in a tiny space and you have better options for all those things a short walk from there.

Must say, apart from a slower service during the match which was to be expected yesterday, I've had the polar opposite experience to you. Couldnt find fault anywhere we went and I was looking for faults after reading this thread. We must just be lucky.

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

€300? Where ? We eat out in Dingle quite a lot and don’t stint on the menu choices and drinks , but have never paid anything close to that . Can you name the restaurants you have paid this kind of price in ?

The general theme of the thread was that Kerry is a rip off.

Then some of the same people giving out that Kerry was a rip off were bemoaning that there are no Michilin restaurants in Kerry.

Which was why I responded as I did.

We - 5 adults - get fed and found in Killarney or Dingle when we are there for the day - main course and a drink - for around €110.

wow people really hate kerry.