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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?
It’s a rip off…
18.50 for a burger and a side or two…. Probably 6.50 for a pint of beer.
About 25 euros for a burger and a drink in the bar of a hotel, out in Lucan ? If you think that’s alright.
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not even a sosig or a slice of bacun to go with it
These prices are normal nearly everywhere now.
10.50 for bowl of chowder in pub in Wesport, mayo yesterday. And it was terrible.
6:50 for a litre bottle of sparkling water in Delphi resort connemeara.
Crazy prices, Delphi resort very quiet, no wonder why.
That's about the going rate. No rip off there.
"Darling where would you like to go for a nice little break?"
"Oh, Lucan. That hotel just off the N4".
Guaranteed ride.
is that Jim Mansfield Jnrs place?
A thundering discrace?
Nvm. €18.50 with salad & fries is fairly reasonable, if burgers are not homemade however it is shocking.
Wife and I had dinner out yesterday, two feather blade of beef dinners, she had a fruit pavlova desert while I had a pint of Guinness. Only had tap water with our dinner. Food was lovely, not going to fault it that way but bill was €72.
Was a nice treat but like all treats you wouldn't be doing it a lot.
That's rip off in my opinion. As you say you wont be doing it a lot.
Took my wife out for her birthday in Cork city Friday night. Went to a well known bar in the city centre and ordered a glass of wine and a pint of moretti. 17:80. I thought he had made a mistake no I was told that was the correct price.
my only mistake was going into that bar.
Go for it then, enjoy and good luck. The rest of us will happily avoid such gouging.
"the rest of us"
What are you on about?
I'm out regularly for food and drink. Pubs were packed Saturday night for the game great craic.
The vast majority seem quite happy with the prices by voting with their feet and filling these establishments.
A very good friend of mine dated a Swedish lady for a time in the early to mid-90s. He'd fly over for a week break to Malmo. Their nights out would be drinks at home before going to a local bar for two or three. It was the equivalent of around 8 punts for a pint there back then. Other nights they'd get the ferry across to Denmark where the beers were cheaper. Sad to see that the 'prinks' has creeped into Ireland as you're only ever going to meet already 'half-cut' folks down the pub which makes it even less inviting to attend on top of the already outrageous cost of a night out. The death-knell of the Irish pub is nigh.
What is this ‘Cheap Booze’ of which you speak?
Exactly. Pubs and Restaurants in Dublin are packed. 7 euro a pint is the standard now & so many people are happy to pay it.
If places get the custom, why would they not charge the prices.
Just back from Paris, paid no less than €8 for a beer, highest was €12, we stayed in an area which isn’t a tourist trap like Montemartre, so not tourist prices, just regular old high prices.
Pubs were in Dublin were busy on a Saturday night when Ireland played South Africa in the World Cup? That's quite a surprise.
Took the wife out to dinner for her birthday on Saturday night to Rathgar.
Two starters, two mains and a bottle of wine- €99.96.
Food was very good but thought it was very expensive tbh.
The bill already included a 10% table service charge.
Pubs are busy every Saturday night, even when there's no rugby.
It is if you think price is the limiting factor.
I doubt there is anyone that hasn’t noticed prices have risen, but there also shouldn’t be any doubt that costs of doing business for everyone have increased, and if there are still crowds willing to hand over their money, then it makes good business sense to offset cost increases by passing onto the consumer. The pub and restaurant sector has always been a precarious one, venues go in and out of fashion, they close, then reopen under new management. Also, quite a few family owned pubs around where I live didn’t reopen after Covid as the owners called time on their businesses, which meant the others are busier as a result.
Irish people will drink, no matter what, patterns have changed with people choosing not to drink in pubs long before Covid and price increases, drugs are now more easily accessible, the nightclub scene as we would have known it is gone, whingeing about the unfairness of it all, and claiming it is greedy owners wanting higher profits, is not to understand that nothing, that I can think of, is cheaper today than precovid.
Landlords night out.
Again...just because people are paying that price, it doesn't mean they are "happy" to pay that price.
Paris has always been expensive for beer. It was around 8 to 10 Euro for 1664 ten years ago.
Everyone that I saw on Saturday night looked extremely happy. I was sitting at the bar with people ordering beside me.
Never heard so much as a grumble.
Most of them never even looked at the card machine, just merrily tapped away.
Who is ever happy paying a price increase? The counter argument is that there probably weren’t too many unhappy about drinking their pints.
Yip, pub owners have confirmed that to me, tap & go is the best thing to ever happen the pub trade, people often don’t even look at their card balance until the hangover has worn off the following morning.
I bet you didn't ask them if they were happy about paying silly prices for their tipple. 😉
Was out on Thursday. Town packed. Great to see.
€6.60 in the Long Hall for a pint of Guinness. And its so good people were downing them in 5 minutes!
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