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Temple Bar makes Top 10 Most Disappointing Destinations list

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  • #62
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    I think Temple Bar is great, soaks up all the people with no imagination to look elsewhere while I can enjoy the better parts of town without them.

    Well Alf.A.Male,Temple Bar is about to get a WHOLE LOT better after this Lad gets his mitts on it......"Could we Toll the entrances I wonder...:confused: "

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/anger-as-dempsey-makes-comeback-in-culture-role-30185872.html

    Obviously a bit of an oul angle to be had here still......remember the original Temple Bar Properties gig was brought to you by CJH Enterprises Teo.....;)


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #63
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    GenieOz wrote: »
    Pints of Guinness that cost €8 are essential to the Irish experience of being bled dry though.

    Serious ?

    thats the price of a pint of Guinness in TB now ??


  • #64
    GenieOz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭GenieOz


    the_monkey wrote: »
    Serious ?

    thats the price of a pint of Guinness in TB now ??


    Ah no, I don't think so. I was being a bit dramatic. I'd say they're about 6.50/7.
    Although I reckon there's a few that'd charge 8


  • #65
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    Most cities have an area like that. Red Light in Amsterdam, Time Square in NY, around Piccadilly in London.

    I disagree about London. Piccadilly has some crappy shops etc but behind it is Soho which is full of world class restaurants and bars, the other side is Regent St and the street leading up to it, Piccadilly itself, is a high end posh street.
    I can't think of such a blatantly touristy area in London, where all the pubs and restaurants are tourist orientated. Enlighten me if you can though!


  • #66
    Mocha Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Mocha Joe


    GenieOz wrote: »
    Ah no, I don't think so. I was being a bit dramatic. I'd say they're about 6.50/7.
    Although I reckon there's a few that'd charge 8

    You'd be doing well if you get one for 6.50 judging by last time I was there.


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  • #67
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I can't think of such a blatantly touristy area in London, where all the pubs and restaurants are tourist orientated. Enlighten me if you can though!

    Agree with you about Piccadilly and Regent Street , but maybe Davarus is thinking of around Leicester Square where there is a high concentration of vile, tourist-rip off places. I'm amazed that they can get away with it, especially as there are so many reasonable restaurants around Chinatown and Soho.


  • #68
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Agree with you about Piccadilly and Regent Street , but maybe Davarus is thinking of around Leicester Square where there is a high concentration of vile, tourist-rip off places. I'm amazed that they can get away with it, especially as there are so many reasonable restaurants around Chinatown and Soho.

    I was only there today myself. Perhaps the most common one is that horrible chain of Angus steak houses as well as Garfunkels. Awful, awful sh*te.


  • #69
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    She is right about Hollywood.

    I was on vacation in LA at the weekend and we stayed in Hollywood because that was close to where all the action supposedly was. Our hotel was 5 mins walk from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

    So Saturday night the GF and myself got all dressed up for a Saturday night in LA and walked down to the Hollywood Walk of Fame...my gawd it was ghetto as fook. We were so over dressed i thought we would be robbed and murdered. We thought we could walk for a bit and find somewhere nice to eat but the further we walked the dodgier and seedier it got. We walked for about an hour until we got tired of seeing endless rows of fast food places, tattoo parlors and sex shops along the Walk of Fame and used Yelp to find a really nice restaurant and bar (Aventine) off a side street which is what I expected at night out in LA to be like and saved our night...we cabbed and Yelped it for the rest of the weekend.

    If i ever became famous, i would never allow my star to be out on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, my name deserves better than that.


    As for Vegas...i fooking love Vegas. Sure there is lots of cool stuff to do and interesting places to see but I do nothing but drink and party there non-stop when I'm there and its the greatest waste of money and liver health you can have with no pants on.


  • #70
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Temple is ok if you go for a wander through during the afternoon, mayber have one pint. For a night out it's not ideal. Does pull in some late drinkers looking for a drunken fumble with some innocent american tourist.


  • #71
    logically
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭logically


    These type of articles are having a terrible effect on the self esteem of the nation. They should be banned. People are in tears here where I work over this article and how our poor beloved little city, and by extension the country, is being portrayed.


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  • #72
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Agree with you about Piccadilly and Regent Street , but maybe Davarus is thinking of around Leicester Square where there is a high concentration of vile, tourist-rip off places. I'm amazed that they can get away with it, especially as there are so many reasonable restaurants around Chinatown and Soho.

    Fair enough but London don't promote Leicester square as their cultural quarter where everyone needs to visit. Temple bar is always held up as some kind of cultural mecca where you can experience real Irish craic and trad music etc. It's an embarrassment really, I wish someone would burn Oliver St John whatever to the ground, makes me cringe.


  • #73
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    FTA69 wrote: »
    I was only there today myself. Perhaps the most common one is that horrible chain of Angus steak houses as well as Garfunkels. Awful, awful sh*te.

    I walk past a Garfunkels on Strand nearly every day and the food people are eating looks gorgeous! I don't think I could bring myself to visit one though!


  • #74
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    FTA69 wrote: »
    that horrible chain of Angus steak houses.

    That has to be a front for a money laundering operation, I am yet to see anyone in them, yet they have been in business for years.


  • #75
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Oliver St John whatever...[...]... makes me cringe.

    I know what you mean. However, it's incredibly popular with tourists - check out the Tripadvisor reviews, which are mostly glowing, although by no means all, such as this chap from Glasgow:
    However, all the staff I saw were foreign which ruined the experience.


  • #76
    EyeSight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭EyeSight


    I like it because it keeps the stags, hens and tourists dressed like leprechauns in the one area i can avoid.

    I do detest going by there. Or when I have someone visiting and they want to go out there.
    For such a tourist area, there should be a lot more policing. The anti social behavior, gangs of knacker kids and junkies is not something tourists need to be around(sure isn't our government always bending over backwards to give a good impression of ourselves to other countries?). Murphys ice cream(amazing place) had to shut down their shop there due to anti-social behaviour. They said they would have wasted their profits on hiring bouncers to protect their staff - yes bouncers for an ice cream shop!


  • #77
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    MadsL wrote: »
    That has to be a front for a money laundering operation, I am yet to see anyone in them, yet they have been in business for years.

    They get jammed in the evenings and at the weekends.

    Garfunkels is absolute dog sh*te. I got some chicken pie yoke in there before and it was literally smash, cream of mushroom soup with bits of chicken and a f*cking plain pastry served separate to it. Honestly, Chinatown and Soho are the only places that are reasonably priced in town. (Byron Burgers etc are also tasty out.)
    B


  • #78
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Heh. Temple Bar was a bit crap in the mid-'90s when I frequented there a bit. I'd imagine it's somewhat less pleasant these days. Anyone remember the Thunder Road Café? The bright-and-shiny one with about £80,000 worth of motorcycles hanging on the walls? Pity they didn't invest that kind of money into the menu. :pac:


  • #79
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Zascar wrote: »
    A few weeks ago I was walking up from Aston Quay and one of the side streets, Asdils row, has some flats on it - there was a guy crouched on the ground at the side of the street preparing a syringe of heroin. He did not look like a typical junkie, just a normal nacker. But absolutely no shame, not even trying to hide it.


    What does a normal "nacker" look like?Do they have nicer than usual tracksuits?


  • #80
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    FTA69 wrote: »
    They get jammed in the evenings and at the weekends.

    Garfunkels is absolute dog sh*te. I got some chicken pie yoke in there before and it was literally smash, cream of mushroom soup with bits of chicken and a f*cking plain pastry served separate to it. Honestly, Chinatown and Soho are the only places that are reasonably priced in town. (Byron Burgers etc are also tasty out.)
    B

    lol, that sounds just awful


  • #81
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    darkdubh wrote: »
    What does a normal "nacker" look like?Do they have nicer than usual tracksuits?

    The same as a junkie clothing wise but without the heroin ravaged body and face I'd imagine


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  • #82
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Yeah pretty much that


  • #83
    Christy Browne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Christy Browne


    Temple Bar? Sure no-one goes there anymore.

    It's way too overcrowded


  • #84
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    anything interesting there involves leaving las vegas. Except the Stratosphere.

    That said I enjoyed Vegas the first time I was there, but it got old.

    Vegas, once is enough and 3 days is enough.


  • #85
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Ah sure this thread is better reading than hanging around the actual location any day. :D


  • #86
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    I love temple bar.

    And I loved Disney too.

    Never been to the other places.


  • #87
    GenieOz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭GenieOz


    Christy Browne wrote: »
    Temple Bar? Sure no-one goes there anymore.

    It's way too overcrowded

    http://superdimension.net/gifs/animated/wtf.gif


  • #88
    Radiosonde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Radiosonde


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Jesus, I loved frankfurt :confused:
    Helped that the summer festival was on when I was there!

    Yeah, I like Frankfurt too. But as a big financial centre it probably is the least "touristy" major German city though.


  • #89
    Coggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Coggles


    Temple Bar is a rip off


  • #90
    anncoates
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    Keeps all the tourists out of the real pubs. What's not to like.


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  • #91
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    FTA69 wrote: »
    I was only there today myself. Perhaps the most common one is that horrible chain of Angus steak houses as well as Garfunkels. Awful, awful sh*te.

    Angus steak houses depend solely on tourist custom. You would never go back but it doesn't matter if there are another ten bus loads of tourists on the way. It's hard to fcuk up a steak as badly.

    If it happened frequently in a village the village steak house would close. Even in a small city. Which leads to the odd situation that the worst steak in the world can be found in the most cosmopolitan of cities.

    This is why I welcome trip advisor etc.


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