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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?
Parknasilla for 81 per person per night in August?
Maybe back in the 70's.
So now we have to sign up to discount websites that spam our inboxes a few times a day to find decent prices?
FFS.
F**k them, and I honestly mean that.
Price of hotels is atrocious, and it's not like they're not getting a pretty penny from the government for homeless and asylum seekers.
Im looking for a hotel for a night in Meath next week. Cheapest is 160 euro.
no
Most have option to opt in/out of mailing
Plus the website you bought the Spain holiday or travel agent will have the same
With all due respect, **** that! I will spend my money in places where i don't get ripped off. I was drinking beautiful pints beside a beach last week for €2, why in gods name would I go and sit in a **** hole pub and pay over €5 for a worse pint?
unless you are drinking the local Spainish beer its more than 2 euro based on last time I was in Spain. Look for anything decent and you are closer to the 5 euro.
I would go into a "sh*t hole pub" anyway. Normally I go into the nice ones in Ireland or overseas.
No, in a cafe.
It was local Spanish beer, Mahou and Cruzcampo mainly and infinitely better than the likes of Heineken and Coors.
No. You put up a link to pigsback. A discount site. That spam your emails all day
I book direct with airlines and usually find it cheaper to book direct with hotels.
Look at Berlin or Florence.
Terrible beer.
It did the job just perfectly in 36 degree heat.
Both will spam you as well, I’m booking now and most hotels of direct offer discount to join their news letter etc.
As I said with pigs back you can opt out or even if they email you at the bottom of mail you click and unsubscribe . Done
same with hotel and airline you booked direct with
That's fine - maybe I'm old fashioned. If you'll excuse the cliche, patriotism is what you do for your country, not what your country can do for you.
Spend your money here, support Irish businesses and products - that contributes both in terms of local employment and taxes to the state. We have a big and growing public service wage bill, we have major infrastructural developments to fund, housing to beat the band and lots of commitments to those arriving here. Who is going to fund all these, if not Irish citizens?
But of course, people are free to leave and spend their dosh in other states. It's just not patriotic though in my book.
Yes, in the Woodland Villas you can book now. You get full access to the hotel spa etc
I was paying €2 for a 500ml bottle of Heineken there in May.
You went a step too far now. Spain has some lovely food, I love the meats etc. But the beer is f**king awful stuff.
If I am out and want to enjoy a beer in what you describe is a nice setting, pay the fecking 3 euro extra and get something nice 😂
I live in a small town in Leinster and there's no way you'd get a sandwich for a fiver here.
Rightly so in fairness though, a fiver is nothing these days.
Oh you mean you can stay in Parknasilla but it's not Parknasilla it's Woodland Villas which are near Parknasilla.
I wish the thread title could be changed to include ........HOSTELS.
I see a hostel bed in a 12 bed dorm in Dublin on a random Saturday in OCTOBER is E139!
Who would be mental enough to come to Ireland?
It's senseless debating the value of an Irish vacation vs abroad, it costs an absolute fortune to vacation in Ireland and the weather is **** vs abroad where for the same price you can stay twice as long, enjoy nice food and drink and the beach/pool.
Havnt vacationed in Ireland since 2015 and it pissed for 2 weeks, cost a fortune, everyone stressed sitting indoors for 2 weeks. Never again.
Would vacation here if a friend had a free gaff but other than that....
Crap isn't burning. I count that as a win.
I'm a Guinness drinker so lager is all the one to me most of the time. I found their local beers to be much nicer than the Heineken, Coors and Amstel they also had on offer.
Was abroad during the heatwave, it was fine(pool, beech), don't get me wrong, would be terrible if you had to work in that.
Support rip off merchants and gougers who are taking the piss?
No.
Honestly, and I'll be blunt here, "patriotism" is the dumbest reason to allow yourself to be ripped off by some chancer who's only interest is in reliving your pocket of as much cash as they can. We need to cop on in this country. We're the MOST expensive for goods and services in Europe. Higher than bleedin Denmark FFS.
Rip off Ireland is a well deserved moniker.
It's not right. It's wrong.
Depends on what beer you're drinking. Estrella is nice enough. Drink it loads when I'm in Barca. Then again, I can also down the wine there too and it's as cheap as chips as well.
All your own cooking, washing up, cleaning, shopping…hmmmm wouldn’t be for me .. holiday I just want everything done….
Good value but what dates ?
Ryanair ftw.
