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Irish hoteliers and others are back blaming the bad weather for their fall in custom, and not their own prices or charges.
What are your own experiences of excessive prices being charged in Ireland relative to the rest of the EU?
See above šļø
Throw in your flights, car hire on far side etc etc. Different experience but doubt if cheaper.
Because people want an escape from the mundane routine of everyday life. They want to go out and about and enjoy meals or drinks or hospitality. They want 7 days of release. Nothing wrong with that. Self catering and renting a house out doesn't give you that.
These hotels and the like can charge what they like. That's their prerogative. However it is pure gouging going on. It'll never change. I've promised to never go away in Ireland again. There literally is no value for money when looking at a hotel.
How people still do "Staycations" is beyond me. It's just a complete and utter rip off. Much cheaper to go foreign and be guaranteed the weather. I'd imagine a house in Galway or Kerry isn't cheap for a week either. Not everyones cup of tea but give me a villa with a private pool for the 7 days and eating in nice restaurants everyday than sitting in a house in connemara getting fleeced for groceries and looking out at the pissings of rain.
ā¬13-15 for a glass of wine with dinner in some decent places now. No thanks.
Ireland as a holiday destination is buried in my opinion. You know it's bad when the Americans are saying they can get a carribean cruise cheaper than a week Ireland. LOL.
Some hotels are charging ā¬999+ per night for the weekend of the Taylor Swift/Coldplays concert next year? I suppose you support this?
Are you aving a larf? Wot about the 1.50 tip?
I have nothing whatsoever to do with the hotel or restaurant industry. A meal in a restaurant is something to enjoy, not complain about, its like those morons who complain a sandwich is 5 euro in a cafe, sure 1 euro would get ya a loaf of bread lol
Anything is cheaper than Switzerland.Can't believe Finland though
Restaurant food is something to enjoy. . . and you can make considerable savings going abroad and not eating in Ireland - which is what this thread is about.
Dont forget to tell me how far you live by ROAD to the Airport Peter Flynt. seeing as you have slated taxis for being very expensive.
House lettings are easy to find. Not sure if I can share websites but I can find a house with 3 bedroom, 7 nights, 6 people and at 750 in Donegal/Kerry/Cork etc in September
In August similar it starts at 800. So that is 20 euro per person per night.
Parknasilla, which is class, 81 per night per person
"A meal in a restaurant is something to enjoy"
Not if you're gouged in the process. Do you believe in value for money?
Show me the cafe in the tourist spots where you can get a Sandwich for 5 quid mate. Would you stretch for a cup of tea too?
good idea, lets go to the trouble of getting a plane to Spain for the cheaper food š
Changing the goal posts when it's not working out for you :-)
No I don't support it
But thus it was always - people want to escape from everyday routines. Growing up, we never went on family holidays abroad and that would have been typical of most Irish families. A week in Kilkee or Bundoran or wherever or camping Brittas Bay etc. First time I flew out of country was age 22. Well away from everyday routines.
Fact is that we have acquired notions and expectations way beyond what was the norm, say pre 1990s.
Of course, families etc went on sun holidays back then and boasted about it in school but they were from monied families and fancied themselves..
As I said then go to a chipper. simple as or a cheaper restaurant.
You don't get it do you?
People will go to Spain for the extra add ons for the cost of a return flight. The price of the return flight could be made back in one night in a Dublin restaurant and hotel.
you can get that in my town in Ireland, its a tourist town.
As I posted above. Flights for 2 and an apartment for a week cost about ā¬750 with stunning weather, ā¬20 each way from the airport to the apartment.
Anything we bought in a supermarket was half the price of what we'd have paid here. 12 cans of beer for ā¬8.95, bottles of wine for about ā¬4. It worked out much cheaper than doing anything remotely similar here.
Not changing goal posts. I'm providing information which is fact and asking if you support it.
INSURANCE that is why its more expensive in Ireland.
why wont you tell me the distance by road from your house to the airport? š¤
Family of 6, 5 adults + 1 child?
I'd say it's about 7-8 miles
You don't like staycations. That good for you.
Plenty of people do.
Not sure why people need to spend so much time telling everyone how terrible it is in Ireland. I have done enough trips aboard and to be honest a lot of the hotels in Spain/Portugal etc would be shut down in a week if it was in Ireland. People just ignore how much of a sh*thole it is because they are on a holiday.
Yes they have some lovely hotel, but then those lovely hotels are in the same price range as Ireland. So people go for the cheap hotel and then just ignore the issues.
I am actually looking for a holiday next year abroad, mostly because of the sh*t weather here and we haven't gone in years. Searched all the Budget/Tui/Cassidy hotels. F**k me but a lot of them are terrible. The nice places, well yes the prices of them are getting close to prices in ireland.
So this hotel we are looking at, came recommended: NAU Salgasdos Dunas Suites. For 7 days its 2500 for 6 of us.
and is it day or night when you get the taxi there?
The relentless increase in the value of the swiss franc since 2007 has contributed to Switzerland being an expensive destination. ā¬1 = CHF 1.66 in 2007. Now ā¬1 = CHF 0.96.
That's your experience.
Would you consider a Villa? Usually work out cheaper than a hotel or apartment too. Private pool etc.
Let me know if you want some contact details.
You posted about a night in Germany for 90, I pointed out you can get the same here in Ireland. So you rant about hotels profiteering for a concert and has nothing to do with the discussion at all. Yes that is changing the goal posts.
As I said above, plenty of people in Ireland will expect a 4 star to be a 4 star. Go to Spain/Portugal and a 4 star would struggle to get 1-2 in Ireland. That's before we start discussing the wages etc.
I flew to plenty of countries, all over the World actually as well. I know the issues Ireland has but I also know the benefits it has. People complain about prices while demanding higher wages in Ireland. They don't seem to be able to link the two of them
I couldn't tell you the prices for that unfortunately, we did it as a couple.
If you want, I can give you a breakdown of a family break(2+3) to a eurocamp park in the south of France as that is something we did recently. Between flights and accommodation for a week it worked out at about half the price of centreparcs in Ireland. And that is not factoring in the cost of food, drink, shopping etc which of course was much much cheaper in France.
You posted: Because people want an escape from the mundane routine of everyday life. They want to go out and about and enjoy meals or drinks or hospitality. They want 7 days of release. Nothing wrong with that. Self catering and renting a house out doesn't give you that.
Now you are telling me to book a Villa? :-)
The Misses wants something all inclusive which the price above doesn't include
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