https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/you-look-out-and-you-only-see-a-few-people-on-the-strand-washout-july-and-lack-of-beds-hits-tourism-sector-as-hopes-pinned-on-early-season-boost/a610994306.html
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?
And I thought near on 7 euro south city was expensive
Very true. Stupid comparison.
No touritsts are going to be attracted to the bright lights of Ballybough.
Was that in Dublin?
How many empty tables did you see?
Some times the "we don't have a table free" when the dining room is nearly entirely empty is basically "we only have the kitchen/waiting staff to handle X number of tables, despite having X times five physical tables". Just as well to let places do that - being in a restaurant that's wildly understaffed for the number of customers isn't fun.
450m from Guinness Storehouse, 1KM from Temple Bar.
It was county Dublin. Id say 5 were occupied at most at any time while we were there and probably about 10 or 12 were empty. Made us laugh at the "Have you a reservation, we will see if we can fit you in" comment.
The monthly subscription for Photoshop seems to be missing on that receipt...
Nate
not funny to the staff at all: part of the script that they must iterate
No photoshopping involved, here's a write up from a national newspaper from last year when it was even cheaper....
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/went-around-dublin-city-see-26486198
I'm not disputing the price, it's just a blatantly obvious Photoshop
The prices are correct, but the receipt has been photoshopped from the original picture.
It's very obvious.
They just replaced the Temple Bar prices for their own, or someone who knows that pub.
€9.95 for a pint of Heineken? Sweet baby Jesus! Is that normal in Temple Lane?
I feel bad for paying €7 for a Chieftain down here...
High rent ?? I would be very suprised if the owners are paying rent or a high mortgage on the property, they are ripping people off, I fail to see why punters line up to defend these robbing feckers, they were crying when covid was about and now they rub it in with rip off Ireland prices, even for this **** hole of a country, Temple Bar takes the piss with its's prices...
Well, it's a profit run business, it's not meant to be fair, and a pub is a luxury not a need, unlike, say, energy supply or housing.
I don’t like it, but if they have the customers filling their pubs every night, it’s good business and they have no incentive to drop the prices.
There is profit run business's and then there is rip off, and this country is excellent in ripping off customers, you talk all you like about being customers choice, but it still does not change the fact that it is daylight robbery...
Good prices to be fair.
If people pay it, then its good business sense.
I agree its a joke to charge a tenner for Heineken, which is basic lager to begin with. But the Temple Bar has no cover charge and free music, so there is that to consider.
I personally still wouldnt pay it, but plenty of tourists have a great time in there and if youre over for a weekend you can suck it up, as long as youre enjoying the atmosphere etc.
Its also a brill place for people to cop off and with folks from all over the world. Thats always a big draw for some!
Oh, I completely agree. And it is especially appalling when the government handed so much public money to these businesses during the pandemic (and free labour!).
They are either private for-profit businesses that live or die by the market, or they are not.
TBF, the Government pandemic payments were available to all businesses, and bars/restaurants suffered more from restrictive trading than a lot of other businesses. I’m thinking of the Covid passes, restrictions on times and having to eat in order to drink. So I don’t think they can be singled out for anything other than the reduction in VAT.
Also, it would appear that they are very much living if they can charge those prices, and still have punters filling their tills. In fact, it would probably be bad business not to charge that much if the market is willing to pay it. It only becomes bad business if they go quiet because punters won’t pay it, that doesn’t seem to have happened though.
All businesses were able to claim some covid supports. Furlough scheme etc.
Had to go to the Hilton at Clare Hall for a family do last night and pints were €7.50, don't give a damn but that is too dear. Very very average pint, crap bar service and the food was only ok. Wasn't even that warm in the place, total gouge of a kip.
You can travel to the continent and holiday there quiite cheaply.
Hope I’m not the only one you noticed this summer that Portugal had got much more expensive than it used to be.
Yes I was charged 2.50 for a pint of Amstel in a pub in Lisbon. The cheek of them.
That type of nonsense happens all the time. It's done to make it look like the place you're eating in is more popular than it actually is. And the "Let me see if we can fit you in" blarney is just done to make the punter feel privileged to be let in to eat.
It's a load of old cobblers.
That seems extraordinarily low for an imported beer, even for Portugal, I'll just have to take your word that you aren’t just making it up to try and prove a point.
That place has always been expensive from the day it opened.
It has and the only thing high end about it is it's prices.
Only way to stop the price gouging aka theft is for people to stop going.
Unfortunately most of the tourists know no better before it's too late and any Irish person who goes in to the Temple Bar deserves it.
There are few worse feelings than being blatantly ripped off.
So while the customers probably won't be back after thwir experience there are still too many victims to exploit who don't know.
These establishments are only damaging themselves, Dublin hospitality and all pubs ultimately in the long run.
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