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vkid wrote: »

No. Upstairs in one side of the building is homeware. Downstairs on that side is crystal, souvenirs, belleek pottery etc. On the other side, downstairs is Clothing (men and womens) and upstairs is a very nice cafe. It is a busy spot and a stop off point for a lot of coach tours. There is also a garden centre at the side. If you want something else to do, you can go to Bunratty Winery.

It's not really a selection though, its bit on the expensive side, in the same realm as Blarney Woolen Mills.

TK Maxx, Brown Thomas, Debenhams and a few independent stores would be better for some selection.

You asked for something to do with 15 minutes by taxi. The bus is available, but you asked for a 15 minute taxi ride. I gave you one with lots to do. And if you've been to Bunratty, everything there is walking distance. Its a village.

Bunratty is also a stop off point for a lot of tour operators, and a lot of US visitors and EU visitors start or end their Irish visit their or in the area when going through Shannon. If you have a car, there is a lot more to do within 15 minutes and within an hour or so you have the Burren, Loop head, Cliffs of Moher. You are pretty much bang smack on the Wild Atlantic Way. As close as any airport will get to an attraction.

Shannon town itself is limited, but its an industrial town with a lot of multi nationals in the main Industrial Estate, Smithstown industrial Estate and more recently, but just as important the Westpark campus. Multinationals like Molex, Intel, Element Six, E.I, Genworth, Zimmer, Pepper Group, GE. Shannon Aerospace, Lufthansa, Eirtech etc etc. There is a lot of people employed in Shannon.

The idea that there is nothing in the immediate Shannon area is utter nonsense.

You missed my question, something interesting to do without a car on my last day/night in Ireland, Bunratty is a small village with a Castle, it doesn't have have many things to do over the course of a day.

Why exactly do you bring up Business Traveler, It's already well known there are Industrial estates in remote areas all over Ireland.

By the way, I am an EU Visitor.

Point being there is no City near Shannon, there's a town near it that exists because of the Airport and a City kind of near it (Limerick) like Dusseldorf (Weeze), Brussels (Charleroi), Barcelona (Girona)

Myself I would recommend a person to take a rental car from Dublin and do a one way rental to Cork with a flight back from there, then they can do the good amount of the Wild Atlantic Way (over west, then south and back over toward cork through Kerry), see all the sights you mentioned and have access to a wide variety of high street stores for shopping, The Opera House, the Everyman Theatre, Cork City Gaol, Finn Barres Cathedral at the end of their trip.

They could even take in the Ring of Kerry, the Old head of Kinsale and stop off in the Pink Elephant along they way.

I wouldn't tell them to drive all the way back up to Shannon to stay the night in Limerick or Bunratty, wouldn't make any sense.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you, it's not really convenient unless your visiting that area of the country for some reason and even then, Ireland is so small in European Terms that a trip around the country is quite easy, just people prefer to spend a night in a larger City like Dublin or Cork on their last night.

I wouldn't exactly pick Limerick as a tourist destination either being from Tipperary.

keithclancy wrote: »

It's not really a selection though, its bit on the expensive side, in the same realm as Blarney Woolen Mills.

TK Maxx, Brown Thomas, Debenhams and a few independent stores would be better for some selection.



You missed my question, something interesting to do without a car on my last day/night in Ireland, Bunratty is a small village with a Castle, it doesn't have have many things to do over the course of a day.

Why exactly do you bring up Business Traveler, It's already well known there are Industrial estates in remote areas all over Ireland.

By the way, I am an EU Visitor.

Point being there is no City near Shannon, there's a town near it that exists because of the Airport and a City kind of near it (Limerick) like Dusseldorf (Weeze), Brussels (Charleroi), Barcelona (Girona)

Myself I would recommend a person to take a rental car from Dublin and do a one way rental to Cork with a flight back from there, then they can do the good amount of the Wild Atlantic Way (over west, then south and back over toward cork through Kerry), see all the sights you mentioned and have access to a wide variety of high street stores for shopping, The Opera House, the Everyman Theatre, Cork City Gaol, Finn Barres Cathedral at the end of their trip.

They could even take in the Ring of Kerry, the Old head of Kinsale and stop off in the Pink Elephant along they way.

I wouldn't tell them to drive all the way back up to Shannon to stay the night in Limerick or Bunratty, wouldn't make any sense.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you, it's not really convenient unless your visiting that area of the country for some reason and even then, Ireland is so small in European Terms that a trip around the country is quite easy, just people prefer to spend a night in a larger City like Dublin or Cork on their last night.

I wouldn't exactly pick Limerick as a tourist destination either being from Tipperary.

Sounds like you have never been in the Folk park. There is a full days worth of visiting there and the Banquet at night. It's not a 'small village' it's a major tourist destination.

The reality of this forum is that Cork Airport is in trouble. Cork people won't like this, but Cork isn't that attractive as a tourist destination. The places you have listed as attractions aren't exactly in the same realm as Temple bar, Kilmanhim Jail or the Guinness store house.When the Queen came to Cork she bought fish...

Neither is Limerick a tourist Mecca, but Corporate guests have plenty to choose from and Shannon Industrial Zone is massive in terms of employment and growing. These industrialists don't worry about taxi fares.

vkid wrote: »

You got your answer, and you are just being pathetically difficult now. Work away. I am not engaging in your nonsense any further.

Here we go again ....previous thread was closed because it had started going off topic and become a bickering session with people spending more time reporting each other than posting on the thread.

This is not a Meadows & Byrnes v Blarney wooden mills thread, whilst I see the relevance of local retail/ attractions, I think that's been exhausted so back to the main topic please.

I'll leave the thread open or God help I'll be accused of conspiracy, political agenda etc ( just for interest, I actually work at Cork Airport so it's massively in my interest to improve traffic through it & also a reason I'm not posting much as I'm biased). BUT we have agreed that rather than close we will issue bans for those causing arguments for the sake of it. Just remember boards rules, don't take the thread off topic & you can comment on another post, but cannot make a comment about the person posting it.

If anyone isn't clear, PM me

Thanks

Long time lurker, blah blah, etc.

It would be nice to have a discussion about Cork Airport without the usual tiresome business of Cork v. Shannon catchment area, greater metropolitan population, industry, tourism turning into the usual boring over and back slagging match.

I think there is a key issue with unequal treatment by the state of each airport. An inequity of policy which should not be the case. Both airports have population, industry, tourism etc. to support them and should on that basis, be able to compete on an equal footing. So let's get the equal footing sorted and have at it!

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Figerty wrote: »

Or have the rental companies not apply a non return charge for picking up in one airport and returning in another. Wild Atlantic Way deal.

Do they charge one?

Deleted User wrote: »

Depends on your rental company. Mute point anyway, nobody is going to fly to Ireland to travel the Wild Atlantic way and only do a quarter of it. They are more likely to start in Cork and finish in Belfast. If they just wanted to visit munster only then flying into Cork and out of Shannon would work, but there probably too close for that to matter.

No there's no one way fee, I often fly to Dublin, pick up there and drop off in Cork and fly from there.

With Belfast you have to pay a cross border fee which is pretty expensive.
Wild Atlantic way is a gimmick anyway, people were already doing it, just now there's a bunch of brown signs with a jagged blue line on it.

Most people I know start in Dublin and Finish in Cork or the other way around as they want to see the Capital at some point.

Dropping off in Cork is nice though, only a 50 meter walk to the terminal, rather than that rental depot where you have to get a bus back to the Airport in Dublin.

The prague route has now been cancelled for the first 5 weeks it was meant to operate. I think its coming now when the ibiza route starts up.

So it looks like the government are going to get €350m from the sale of Aer Lingus,and I have'nt heard one Cork politician say yet that Cork Airport needs to be made independent and the debt wiped on the spot,when the sale goes through.

What are they at???

Rhys Essien wrote: »

So it looks like the government are going to get €350m from the sale of Aer Lingus,and I have'nt heard one Cork politician say yet that Cork Airport needs to be made independent and the debt wiped on the spot,when the sale goes through.

What are they at???

Coveney has said the money can't be spent on wiping off the debt.

http://www.eveningecho.ie/cork-news/aer-lingus-cork-on-high/

Oh dear, have politicians crystal balls or something? The days of political appointees to the board of Aer Lingus are long gone, now that EI is been sold off there is only 1 thing that will keep or improve their routes and that is demand. As in business levels and basic economics not bloody politicians.

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