Price gouging by the pub, restaurant & hotel industry

Cork is lovely, in fairness, and some of the hotels are genuinely lovely. But these were expensive enough before all the gouging started. No idea what it's like now.

Actually, just checked....Castlemartyr resort is €350 per night midweek in early September. Madness

Dirty toilets in that place dressed up kip

I suppose people understand that businesses will charge what people will pay. €999 for the weekend of Taylor Swift is gouging, but they wouldn't do it if there weren't people there to pay it.

Dublin pubs are getting out of control. "Premium" beers, such as Moretti, Peroni and Madri are €7.60 or €7.80 a pint in D6.

Me and my missus were looking for a Friday morning to Saturday evening away . Hotels in all parts of the country coming in at plus 200 euro a night .

We flew to Liverpool for 40 euro return each , got a hotel ( premier inn) , 90 Sterling for the night , 2 quid each on bus from Liverpool airport to city centre , had a nice time in the city , change of scenery and cheaper drink/ meal out .Flew home Saturday evening .Family dropped us to airport and collected us .

I simply refuse to be ripped off by Irish hotel prices and won’t be paying it ,I’ll fly off anywhere on a cheaper break than sit in some Irish hotel getting charged 19 euro for gourmet burger and 7.50 a pint .

Absolutely perfect break, as you said, why would anyone be "patriotic" and have their holes opened every time they stay in a hotel in this country?

And those pubs are packed.

I was only thinking about this the other week, this is in relation to the price of a pint not the price of accommodation.

Back in the mid 90's say 1995 1996 I recall that it was about IR £ 2.00 for a pint of lager.

Back then you could buy a 3-4 bedroom house for IR £ 20k to IR £ 30k

1996 average industrial earnings per CSO € 18,752 which was IR £ 14,768

€Fast forward to 2022

Per the CSO the average industrial wage for 2022 was € 46,832

If we take a pint in 1996 at IR £ 2.00 or € 2.53 vs let us say € 6.50 in 2022

A pint has gone up by 128 percent by 2022

Wages are up about about 125 percent.

So ok, maybe I have gone a bit higher on the price of a pint than reality, but it is not a million miles of where you would expect.

Take the same house that was IR £ 20 to £ 30k that's in the € 300k bracket now.

So now when your Grandmother tells you that they were paying 12% interest point out that the house was only two years wages and go away and enjoy a pint knowing that it is not really any more expensive than it was back when we thought it was cheap.

jesus, maybe my 3k Icelandic holiday wasnt too bad of a deal after all, some seriously fcuked up prices across this country, no wonder people fcuk off for theirs.....