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RIP OFF PINTS!!! Name And Shame The Pubs Where You Were Ripped Off

ArthurGuinness

Was charged an insane €5.20 for a pint of Guinness in Harveys Waterford City last night.

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Rugger7

€6.30 for a bottle of Heineken in The Church. But I had to pay €8.30 coz the retard of a barman dropped the €2 coin and said I didn't give it to him! the only drink I got in there that night.

BuachaillAbroad

Been reading this thread & I'm shocked!

I'm living in Belgium now & the quality & price of the beers is much better than Ireland...nightlife better IMO too

For example, was back at Christmas;

Porterhouse, bottom of Grafton Street: Corona €5
Old Oak, Brussels: Corona about €2,20

& from a holiday in Munich...
Hacker-Pschorr Beerhall, Munich: 1 stein (1L) €5

Think if I was living in Ireland, I'd what we did in college...homebrew
Worked out at about €1 for a pint...took awhile to get right but better than any pint you'd get in Temple Bar!

BuachaillAbroad

kenon

Briefly walked into Oliver St John Gogartys in Temple Bar last night and noticed on the price list that at night, the cost of a pint bottle of bulmers is...€7.40.

Secoundrow

Sawdoctors gig castlebar mayo last friday

tf hotel €8.50 for a vodka and redbull

^ I was like WTF!!! Come on id buy a six pack of redbull and a naggin for that if I shopped around;)

The prices they charge are a pure rip off:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: <see 5 angry faces thats just how I feel:(

Salvelinus

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

It's 50c to €1 for a pint of any of the three local beers in Bulgaria,
everywhere in Ireland is a rip off!

Con: my livers probably weaping.

Pro: Probably better in a way its more expensive to drink here can you imagine what Dublin CC would be like on a Friday/Saturday night if pints were 60c each?

What's the minimum wage there?

Colonel Sanders

Ventured into the Lombard in Dublin 2 last friday (used to be Mahaffey's). Not exactly a pub in a brilliant location bustling with business

€4.90 for guinness and €5.30 for lager. No wonder I rarely go out in town anymore..

Tea_Bag

paid €7.80 for a VERY warm flat bulmers off the tap into a plastic pint cup, no ice offered, and a room temp 300ml (?) glass bottle of coke for the lady in the Prince Bar in Athlone. no matter how i look at it, i see RIPOFF. the bulmers was revolting. stupidly a third of it was drank before i had a sip, otherwise i would have poured it over the guys head who served it to me. there werent even bubbles.

[Deleted User]

I went into fitzsimons in Temple Bar and asked for a Pear Kopperberg. The came back with a warm plastic half pint bottle for 6.11 . I just told them that i didnt want it .

rubadub

worded wrote: »

So happy hours are illeagal.

What about promotions?

Read my post here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=61383987&postcount=79

worded

So happy hours are illeagal.

What about promotions?

gurramok

Danno wrote: »

Where is this wage you speak of - I have never seen anything like that being paid out in these parts.

Yeh, the mystical average. Going by the average pint being 4 quid on the index, it should be average but we all know its well above average around the country.

Dublinstiofán

It's 50c to €1 for a pint of any of the three local beers in Bulgaria,
everywhere in Ireland is a rip off!

Con: my livers probably weaping.

Pro: Probably better in a way its more expensive to drink here can you imagine what Dublin CC would be like on a Friday/Saturday night if pints were 60c each?

Garvan

What happened to the ads Bulmers put out saying the price of a pint bottle would be dropping??? Hasn't happened in the pubs I've been in.

Also €6.50 in Cafe-insane for a pint of lager?? You'd want to be sh1t-faced going in to stomach paying that!!!

Danno

bog master wrote: »

Came a cross the Guinness Price Index along with CSO stats on average Industrial Wage.

Prices converted to Euro.

1994 Avg Ind. Wage €332.54 National Average Pint Guinness €2.34

2007 Avg Ind Wage €600.24 National Average Pint Guinness €4.03

Where is this wage you speak of - I have never seen anything like that being paid out in these parts.

radiofreak

The Vat House at Blooms Hotel Temple Bar after 11pm.

Pint Bottle of Bulmers €7.40
Pint Of Carlsberg €6.20
Can Of Coke €3.50

markfla

5 euro pint of carlsberg in ormonde in kilkenny, I know it's not as expensive as other examples here but sickening after coming home from Portugal this week where I was paying €1.50 for a pint of superbock. A round of beer for 8 was 12 quid

benj

e2.80...small bottle of water...west county ennis :mad:

Colonel Sanders

Frank66 wrote: »

My eyes were finally opened last weekend in Liverpool. I was paying 1.90(pounds) for a Guinness in some places in the Cavern Quarter. Some bars a little more but still below a Saturday in the city centre here.
As well, there is a tequlia bar that had 1 pound shots and great deals on double vodka Red Bulls. 1 pound for a good portion of tasty chips on the way back to my room. The trip was totally worth the 14 euro plane ride.

It's been suggested here "don't want to pay the Dublin price? then don't pay it and keep complaining"
I'm sold, rip off Dublin pubs get no more of my $.:rolleyes:

I know quite a few people who go abroad on a cheap Ryanair flight once every month or two paid for by not going out drinking in Dublin anymore.

minemine

I was in Galway last year and was charged €3 for a pint of Ribena!!!!!!! in the Radisson, seriously ( It was a hangover cure on a sunday morning)

Also in that bar Tosh on Eyre Square, I asked for a pint of water, as had a lot of drink taken, they said they didnt give out tap water and would have to charge me the price of 2 x still ballygowan. I couldnt stop laughing at them and asked were they charging for the ice or was that free!! They actually got annoyed at me for laughing, I tied to tell them that is against the law (didnt know if it was or not) but was laughing so hard I dont know if they heard me!!

But the best was at a wedding in the Shelbourne (ok i know it the shelbourne but still) a vodka and coke €9.80 after 11pm, a glass of wine €8 before 11 and €10 after 11 (small glass of house wine) pint over €6 before 11
unreal...

benj

anyone that pays a fiver or more for a pint deserves to be robbed :cool:

A7X

I was in Purty Kitchen there a good few months ago and they were selling bottles for €6. Couldn't believe it. What makes it worse is you had to pay €15 euro in to the bollickin place.

Barr

Paid 5.40 for a bottle of miller in barrys of douglas ,cork last nite - rip off

Frank66

My eyes were finally opened last weekend in Liverpool. I was paying 1.90(pounds) for a Guinness in some places in the Cavern Quarter. Some bars a little more but still below a Saturday in the city centre here.
As well, there is a tequlia bar that had 1 pound shots and great deals on double vodka Red Bulls. 1 pound for a good portion of tasty chips on the way back to my room. The trip was totally worth the 14 euro plane ride.

It's been suggested here "don't want to pay the Dublin price? then don't pay it and keep complaining"
I'm sold, rip off Dublin pubs get no more of my $.:rolleyes:

Colonel Sanders

PurplePossum wrote: »

Dublin prices are mental. Why do we pay them??

I very rarely do anymore

Used to go to the pub once or twice a week in Dublin, more like once every one or two months now...

fcleere

PurplePossum wrote: »

Dublin prices are mental. Why do we pay them??

cause if there is anything worse than the drink, its the thirst!

PurplePossum

rayc wrote: »

Posted this recently in another thread but it's relevant here too...

The CSO released their latest survey on Consumer Prices.....

Pint of Draught Lager:

In Dublin
Lowest Average Price = 4.53
Highest Average Price = 5.19
Average = 4.85

Outside Dublin
Lowest Average Price = 3.98
Highest Average Price = 4.80
Average = 4.33

Also for Vodka dublin averaged 4.05.

Outside Dublin = Regional cities and towns with population less than 20,000.

its here if you want to see it http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0626/csoprices.pdf

Totally farsical figures!! "Highest price in dublin 5.19"???? Where did they get that from. Try 6.50 for a pint of Bulmers in some places. And 5.40 for a shot glass of Jagermeister in Hairy Lemon. Dublin prices are mental. Why do we pay them??

kilns

I was in The Temple Bar last night with work. When the credit card was taken away near the end of the night I got another round in.

To my amazement a pint of Heinikein was €6.60!!!!

What a joke and they'll get away with it because its mostly tourists that frequent the place

parsi

Camarague wrote: »

Temple Bar in general is a total rip off. It's a shame that the epicentre of touristy Dublin is also the epicentre of rip-off-dom.

That's the same the world over. The epicentre of touristy Paris is also the worst place to find value (though there is a sanwicherie on the Champs which is ok value).

The problem is when pubs that aren't in the epicentre are charging mad prices.

Flaccus

leche solara wrote: »

Very few pubs that I've been in have passed on any reduction. One pub laughed at my suggestion that I should be paying less, saying "this is Ireland". Another claimed to have reduced the price from €5.90 to €5.70, when it has always been €5.70. Yet another claimed there was no reduction at all, and that the whole thing was a publicity stunt by Bulmers to get people buying it in the belief they were getting a bargain. When I contacted Bulmers they said it was at the discretion of the pubs to pass on the reduction, and that they could do nothing about it. They didnt seem too interested either.

It is at the pubs discretion, definitley. Bulmers actually sent all the pubs in the country a letter sometime ago about this and advised them it would be in their interests to pass on the saving to customers. A few pubs in Limerick have and charge as low as €4.70 for a pint bottle of Bulmers pear. But the usual popular bars are charging €5.20. It's a ripoff for sure.

hoser expat

Surely the 10% reduction was on cost price to the publican, which does not equate to a 10% drop in price to the customer....more like 5% depending on markup.