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  • #8762
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Just watched London has fallen. Easily one of the top 5 films that I have ever had the misfortune of watching.
    Absolute drivel.


  • #8763
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,493 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Should've watched the Liverpool-Dortmund game instead.

    Some comeback.


  • #8764
    CMOTDibbler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,833 ✭✭✭CMOTDibbler


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Should've watched the Liverpool-Dortmund game instead.

    Some comeback.
    Liverpool seem to have cornered the market in big European comebacks. :cool:


  • #8765
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Ha being called a lady is fine by me, though someone on here called me Louis Walsh once which I've no idea what that means!

    You're a drama queen?


  • #8766
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    CMOTDibbler wrote: »
    Liverpool seem to have cornered the market in big European comebacks. :cool:

    This give another great game for Jonny Sexton to use as inspiration. Just you wait.


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  • #8767
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Have you smiled yet today?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP60JGzwiBg


  • #8768
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I genuinely despise motor bikers

    That guy actually did a drivers test but has no problem putting him on the inside of that car like that.

    Everytime I hear one has died I think it was prob his fault.


  • #8769
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    I genuinely despise motor bikers

    That guy actually did a drivers test but has no problem putting him on the inside of that car like that.

    Everytime I hear one has died I think it was prob his fault.

    He has likely ruined that poor child as well. Destined to follow the same path


  • #8770
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Just checking online for a 3day getaway next month, I can go to Jury's Christchurch in Dubland for €600 or 3 days in Brussels incl flights for a little over half that.... Less than half if i stay in a 3 star hotel. Crazy!


  • #8771
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Felix Jones is God wrote:
    Just checking online for a 3day getaway next month, I can go to Jury's Christchurch in Dubland for €600 or 3 days in Brussels incl flights for a little over half that.... Less than half if i stay in a 3 star hotel. Crazy!

    Not surprising! Can't imagine pleasure visits to Brussels including the airport are high on holiday lists at thf moment.


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  • #8772
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Buer wrote: »
    Not surprising! Can't imagine pleasure visits to Brussels including the airport are high on holiday lists at thf moment.

    Actually, it's the opposite, seems a lot of people are think the same
    But, it's the same with Amsterdam and Alicante and a few more...I think it says more about our overpriced hotels than anything else really


  • #8773
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    I worked in tourism for a few years. There is a serious undersupply of hotel beds in Dublin. At every level.


  • #8774
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I find, generally speaking, Irish hotels are a lot better than what you'd get for the same prices abroad. Room size alone is vastly superior in Ireland. Granted I've only once stayed in a Dublin City hotel but even then it had a really good size room.


  • #8775
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    I find, generally speaking, Irish hotels are a lot better than what you'd get for the same prices abroad. Room size alone is vastly superior in Ireland. Granted I've only once stayed in a Dublin City hotel but even then it had a really good size room.

    Try staying in the Dergvale and you'll get a shock :)
    In general, I find the service abroad is on a par with Ireland, room size is much of a muchness, food service and on site facilities are a little better in Ireland, but not enough to justify a 100%+ price difference


  • #8776
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I can never understand the fascination with huge hotel rooms. I'll stay in a shoebox as long as it is clean, quiet and has a decent shower.
    Herself always wants 4-5 star with big fancy extras. My point is that you sleep there, then a quick wash and that's you until that night again. I'll happily pay half the price of a 4 star and use the savings to treat myself when I'm visiting that particular city.


  • #8777
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    mfceiling wrote: »
    I can never understand the fascination with huge hotel rooms. I'll stay in a shoebox as long as it is clean, quiet and has a decent shower.
    Herself always wants 4-5 star with big fancy extras. My point is that you sleep there, then a quick wash and that's you until that night again. I'll happily pay half the price of a 4 star and use the savings to treat myself when I'm visiting that particular city.

    It depends on where you're going and why. I've stayed in perfectly lovely shoe boxes in Rome, Paris and London and am perfectly happy to do so when it's a city break type trip and I am pretty much just sleeping in it. If you're just going away for a bit of a relax though it's nice to have a big room and a few extras here and there. There's a hotel in Donegal, Harvey's Point, where the rooms are literally bigger than the downstairs of my house. The bathroom has a huge shower and a bath you could get about 5 people into. Price wise it's not even as expensive as the very centrally located shoe box I stay in in London.

    Depends on what you're after, I suppose.


  • #8778
    Teferi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    My missus is mad for a 'good' hotel. I couldn't care less where I sleep, particularly when I'm on holiday because you're never there.

    A couple of years ago in London I made my girlfriend stay in one of these pod style hotels. She had a fit when she realised what I had booked!


  • #8779
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    If you're getting 5 people into your bath we all know what youre after!


  • #8780
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Felix Jones is God wrote: »
    If you're getting 5 people into your bath we all know what youre after!

    It's a time saving thing, bathing everyone at once. Environmentally friendly too ;)


  • #8781
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    And I thought it was just my missus that was crazy. When we're on holiday, the only time we're in the room is when we're sleeping or getting ready to go out. Yet she always insists on staying in some amazing (expensive) place with charming/cute/wonderful/whogivesaf... rooms.


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  • #8782
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Yeah_Right wrote: »
    And I thought it was just my missus that was crazy. When we're on holiday, the only time we're in the room is when we're sleeping or getting ready to go out. Yet she always insists on staying in some amazing (expensive) place with charming/cute/wonderful/whogivesaf... rooms.

    To a point I agree... But if you are travelling, and have to stay in your room for a period of time, then a shoebox isn't a great idea


  • #8783
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Something I find very odd about hotels is the new trend of places having the bath in the actual bedroom. Bizarre idea and very impractical but it seems to be a common occurrence in newer hotels at the moment.


  • #8784
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Something I find very odd about hotels is the new trend of places having the bath in the actual bedroom. Bizarre idea and very impractical but it seems to be a common occurrence in newer hotels at the moment.

    Read an article in the guardian about a hotel that had the jacks in the hotel room!! I laughed for about 3 hours reading the comments section!!


  • #8785
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    It depends on where you're going and why. I've stayed in perfectly lovely shoe boxes in Rome, Paris and London and am perfectly happy to do so when it's a city break type trip and I am pretty much just sleeping in it. If you're just going away for a bit of a relax though it's nice to have a big room and a few extras here and there. There's a hotel in Donegal, Harvey's Point, where the rooms are literally bigger than the downstairs of my house. The bathroom has a huge shower and a bath you could get about 5 people into. Price wise it's not even as expensive as the very centrally located shoe box I stay in in London.

    Depends on what you're after, I suppose.

    I stayed over the road, in the Solis Lough Eske Castle for a wedding. The bathroom was bigger than the downstairs of my house, never mind the bedroom!
    mfceiling wrote: »
    Read an article in the guardian about a hotel that had the jacks in the hotel room!! I laughed for about 3 hours reading the comments section!!

    I stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the jacks was in the shower. They even had a toilet paper dispenser with a plastic cover over it to keep the paper dry...


  • #8786
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Zzippy wrote: »


    I stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the jacks was in the shower. They even had a toilet paper dispenser with a plastic cover over it to keep the paper dry...

    Cheers Zzippy just had a little bit of sick go into my mouth!!


  • #8787
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Cheers Zzippy just had a little bit of sick go into my mouth!!

    If you were in the shower in Amsterdam you could have just spit it in the toilet without having to get out.


  • #8788
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Zzippy wrote:
    I stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the jacks was in the shower. They even had a toilet paper dispenser with a plastic cover over it to keep the paper dry...

    That's just efficient.


  • #8789
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Zzippy wrote: »
    I stayed over the road, in the Solis Lough Eske Castle for a wedding. The bathroom was bigger than the downstairs of my house, never mind the bedroom!



    I stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the jacks was in the shower. They even had a toilet paper dispenser with a plastic cover over it to keep the paper dry...

    You could have had a shït, shave and a shower all without moving!


  • #8790
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Felix Jones is God wrote: »
    You could have had a shït, shave and a shower all without moving!

    What do you think I did? :confused:


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  • #8791
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Zzippy wrote: »
    I stayed over the road, in the Solis Lough Eske Castle for a wedding. The bathroom was bigger than the downstairs of my house, never mind the bedroom!



    I stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the jacks was in the shower. They even had a toilet paper dispenser with a plastic cover over it to keep the paper dry...

    When I was trying to rent in Holland I visited an apartment where the shower was in the kitchen.


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