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Staycation Ireland.. Anyone doing it

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  • #32
    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭dobman88


    4 days in Clare mid July, place called Carrigaholt. Absolute bliss.

    A week in Kerry in August for the week after the BH, got a great deal on an Airbnb in Castlemaine so perfectly located to do everything we want to do in Dingle and Killarney. Kayaking, horse riding, hiking and great restaurants. Really looking forward to both trips after not leaving the house for 3 months.


  • #33
    Minier81
    Registered Users Posts: 623 ✭✭✭Minier81


    A week in Kerry in August, needed something to look forward to, can't wait now!


  • #34
    krissovo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭krissovo


    I just booked a Shannon river boat for a week, costly but should keep the family happy. They are easy to clean (sterilise) and depending on the situation easy to isolate in.


  • #35
    beachhead
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭beachhead


    No one posting here has mentioned prices or even availability in the country(R.O.I) so I guess the rich kids must be out to play.


  • #36
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    krissovo wrote: »
    I just booked a Shannon river boat for a week, costly but should keep the family happy. They are easy to clean (sterilise) and depending on the situation easy to isolate in.

    I was just thinking, as i live near the Shannon in the midlands it’s weird not seeing any boats out on the water this time of year.


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  • #37
    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭dobman88


    beachhead wrote: »
    No one posting here has mentioned prices or even availability in the country(R.O.I) so I guess the rich kids must be out to play.

    4 days in Clare will be staying with family so no accommodation costs.

    Week in Kerry was €360 Airbnb so hardly breaking the bank. We are far from rich


  • #38
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,216 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Hotels down the country seem pricey enough but there are private houses/cottages available for €400 - €600 a week with leas than a mile from a beach.

    Biggest worry about doing this is as the weather isn't guaranteed, if it pisses rain we'd be better off at home with the comforts given we have 2 kids :(

    Before COVID we had a trip to Thailand planned, then we downgraded it to Spain and now looks like we'll stick to the back garde in Dublin with day trips around the place.


  • #39
    kippy
    Registered Users Posts: 18,393 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    6541 wrote: »
    The North Coast in Antrim is a bigoted crap hole. As a southern person you are just about tolerated.

    This is not true.


  • #40
    fits
    Registered Users Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭fits


    beachhead wrote: »
    No one posting here has mentioned prices or even availability in the country(R.O.I) so I guess the rich kids must be out to play.

    Paying 120 a night for a four bedroom house self catering in Dingle over august bank holiday. Not cheap but it’s alright.


  • #41
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Sheep Shagger wrote: »
    Biggest worry about doing this is as the weather isn't guaranteed, if it pisses rain we'd be better off at home with the comforts given we have 2 kids :(

    Before COVID we had a trip to Thailand planned, then we downgraded it to Spain and now looks like we'll stick to the back garde in Dublin with day trips around the place.


    I think days trips are a great way to do a staycation.
    Have done it myself before.

    You still have your home comforts while you get to go somewhere nice on sunny/dry days


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  • #42
    podge018
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭podge018


    fits wrote: »
    Paying 120 a night for a four bedroom house self catering in Dingle over august bank holiday. Not cheap but it’s alright.

    €30 a room per night seems cheap enough imo.


  • #43
    ozzy jr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭ozzy jr


    Going to Kerry (Inch) for a week on July. Will bring my bike and do a bit of cycling.

    Still might go away in November if it's safe and not too much of an ordeal to do a long haul flight.


  • #44
    opinionated3
    Registered Users Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭opinionated3


    After hearing the restrictions planned for bars/restaurants I certainly won't be doing the whole staycation thing. Plus it's too expensive in this country anyway. Still hoping to hit Portugal in September....


  • #45
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,867 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    opinionated3 wrote: »
    After hearing the restrictions planned for bars/restaurants I certainly won't be doing the whole staycation thing. Plus it's too expensive in this country anyway. Still hoping to hit Portugal in September....

    How do you know we will have such restrictions but that Portugal or elsewhere on the Continent wont in September?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #46
    Mossie1975
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭Mossie1975


    Small weekend trips to Kerry & Cork planned here. I’m like a kid looking forward to “going on my holidays”


  • #47
    opinionated3
    Registered Users Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭opinionated3


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    How do you know we will have such restrictions but that Portugal or elsewhere on the Continent wont in September?

    I don't really, I'm going more in hope that Portugal will be more accepting by then. Our governments approach to ending the lockdown is painfully slow compared to other European countries so I think staycations are going be devoid of fun and generally a waste of my hard earned money. It's a shame, because normally I like to support Irish business's and local business, but I'm not interested in being ripped off by expensive accommodation for a handful of nights, and then to be told that a night out socialising is restricted to 90 mins.


  • #48
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,096 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Take your wine to the beach and watch the sun go down...there's no restrictions. Done it many a night last summer, kids are way too young for the pub at the moment.


  • #49
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    No Staycations in Ireland for me. It is just too expensive in this country to do more than day trips to the beach.
    It is somewhat bewildering to hear about hotels and similar establishments actually increasing their rates at a time when it should be the opposite in order to encourage business locally.
    Ireland has a habit of shooting itself in the foot with these types of things ....


  • #50
    Santy2015
    Registered Users Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Santy2015


    Heading to Enniscrone Sligo in the middle of August. Got good enough value for 4 nights in one of the hotels there. Seaview room, bed and breakfast and 2 nights with 3 course meal for €750. Young lads first holiday away as well. So hopefully the weather is good.


  • #51
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,096 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    If you download the dark sky weather app it's got a time machine feature where you can pick your date and go back and see what it was like every year.
    It'll be a little warmer the more south along the west. Clonakilty will be warner than lahinch and lahinch will be warner than Sligo etc.


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  • #52
    supersaint3
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭supersaint3


    beachhead wrote: »
    No one posting here has mentioned prices or even availability in the country(R.O.I) so I guess the rich kids must be out to play.

    Begrudge much


  • #53
    supersaint3
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭supersaint3


    supersaint3 wrote: »
    Begrudge much

    Just for context we're off to clifden 2 adults 2 kids to a small house out side the town we booked in January for a week at the start of the July it cost us 400e we were dead lucky and even luckier that the restrictions lifted earlier even if it will be somewhat restricted, but we'll be on a different beach very day and do the shopping in Lidl and grab a €9 fish and chips and a few Guinness everyday and no one should be ashamed of doing similar or even more luxurious because of some miserable hoor on boards!


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
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    Clifden town centre self-catering late July. Live the white beaches in Connemara, and I haven’t been there too often, so will be a novelty.


  • #55
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Clare for four days in July. A friend is very kindly letting us stay in her holiday home free of charge (though we are going to give her a little something and some gifts). She said “I hope you get good weather!” and I said “Honestly, I don’t care if it’s raining. I just want a change of scenery badly”. I love Clare and the house is in a gorgeous location that looks beautiful even on a rainy day. Bring it!


  • #56
    chases0102
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭chases0102


    What websites are useful to search for self catering homes?

    Very little availability left in my searches.....


  • #57
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,867 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    chases0102 wrote: »
    What websites are useful to search for self catering homes? Very little availability left in my searches.....

    Have used this site in the past:
    https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/en/ireland/

    Not 100% sure, but think may be similar properties to:
    https://www.hogansirishcottages.com/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #58
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,096 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    chases0102 wrote: »
    What websites are useful to search for self catering homes?

    Very little availability left in my searches.....

    Where, what dates...some places have management company's that look after all the short term rentals in the area, you could be best call them rather than depend on a website, they'll also call you if they have a cancellation etc.


  • #59
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,216 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    https://www.imagineireland.com


  • #60
    CBear1993
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭CBear1993


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    How do you know we will have such restrictions but that Portugal or elsewhere on the Continent wont in September?

    You can get on a plane right now and fly to a lot of countries in Europe. Have friends that went to Portugal last week, and parents (in 50s) travelling to switzerland and austria next week.
    - in the algarve the restaurants have been open for a while now, not sure about the bars but you can have a drink in the restaurants. Hotels, swimming pools etc are too. Water parks have restrictions but are opened.
    A quick check on the tripadvisor forum will let you know what anywhere is like with the resident experts updating how it is in the towns/cities daily.

    This country is way behind the rest of EU on reopening the economy. The same people praising the slow opening will be crying in the Winter when the economy is f*cked and we're taxed heavily for all the subsidy payments to people laying at home off work.

    Not a chance will I be booking anywhere in Ireland. Will be in Germany in July now ( booking today) and Portugal in September - both of which might I add have the hotel cheaper than staying in a lot of irish hotels which I did a comparison to. The flights are cheap as - €66 return berlin for example - sure I'd spend that on fuel alone driving to kerry or cork and back.

    If you want to staycation then do so yes. Some peopel are obviously immunosuppressed or have sick members of their family, or parents at risk etc etc.
    But I do think we need to drop the "begrudge other people who are making their own decisions to fly abroad" mentality. The extreme majority of posters on here are not immunologists/experts on the matter - all of the information we are getting is speculation.

    If you look at the figures, you actually have as much chance of catching the virus in Dublin on a "daytrip/staycation" than some other European cities where the infection rate is extremely low. Check the flights coming into this country during lockdown and even still today - the data is available on dublin airport arrivals, and don't tell me its for irish people flying home or PPE :rolleyes: :rolleyes: There are tourists arriving in here daily - you can see them around Dublin on their "holidays". We've all kept our promise for the most part, the government aren't. They're making fools of people who are choosing to stay home and instilling scaremongering tactics.

    The amount of Irish people that are booking trips in July/August already is massive. No stupid rule from Simon and the boys trying to force people to spend money on massively overpriced accommodation in Ireland is working.

    The weather was amazing a few weeks ago for June Bank Holiday, but it still is Ireland. I know I'd rather pump €500-1000 into a few days abroad for a change of scenery and lasting memories than a few days on the coast here where it could be lashing, windy and dull for the duration. Not to mention these hotel and bar restrictions are absolutely hilarious - what tourist in their right mind from any part of the world would come here this summer? I'd be telling them to avoid it.


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  • #61
    cee_jay
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 7,920 Mod ✭✭✭✭cee_jay


    We are going camping in Clare for a week.
    We go camping every year, a few times during the summer - normally a long weekend at the start of June (didn't get to do that this year), then a week in July (we are going to Clare for 5 nights this year, visiting family for 2 nights en route), and another long weekend towards end of August (we haven't booked this yet, will see what the facilities are like (cleanliness wise) in July before deciding).
    Last year we went to Antrim (Bushmills) camping for 4 nights in June and it was fabulous. We had some heavy rain showers, but plenty of sunshine, and it is a gorgeous part of the country.

    We have a really good tent that cost a bit, but the cost of the holiday itself is really low - our 5 nights in July will be €125 for the campsite!


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