I think the issue from a domestic perspective is really the hotel prices. People are looking at hotels especially in Dublin and especially around big events and being absolutely gouged out of it. There, you’re not looking for a premium once in a lifetime big trip type deal, you want a cheap bed and that doesn’t exist here.
Is it time to regulate stupid ideas?
The industry is fucked.
If you owned a hotel and the government came along and guaranteed to fill the place for way above market and you don’t need to look after the patrons even half as much as paying customers, who wouldn’t take the deal?
It’s a total joke. They are pushing more and more people towards Airbnb which is making Airbnb more attractive to landlords which is worsening the housing crisis.
FFG are totally inept scumbags. 725m to keep the national broadcaster saying nice things about them but refusing to pay the student nurses who worked during covid says it all.
Last time I stayed in a B+B it was 30 Punts or something.
150 a night each for shared rooms is all kinds of crazy.
No.
We have a huge demand for hotels so the prices are high we need more hotels if anything. Regulating hotels wouldn’t work economically
Back in May, I booked a room for a night just north of the city centre. One room, two adults, for the end of August.
€212.
It’s absolutely criminal. The fact that Irish people are actually supposed to live their lives here is something of an awkward embarrassment for the government; the Republic is a profit centre for multinational financiers. People aren’t actually meant to *exist* there.
No, stop regulating stuff that doesn’t need to be regulated. This isn’t a critical service. If the government intervenes in this, the hotel owners will start asking for funding and other help from the government too.
If they are too expensive, customers need to stop booking them.
Woke late in the middle of the night one night in late 2022. Sat up scrolling online and seen the Springsteen gigs for summer 23 literally get announced.
Immediately booked a city centre hotel (The Gresham) for the night I wanted to go. Got it for 130, two adults.
Tickets went on sale and didn’t get the night we wanted, so let the room go. Checked back on booking.com a few hrs later and the room was €350 for the same night.
Fcuk as someone from Newry as soon as the Punt changed to the Euro, everything changed
Recently stayed in the west of Ireland .. there is a fairly nice hotel in the area family room is about 320 a night .. popped in to Lidl while there Late one evening and a worker from the hotel ( hotel polo shirt on ) with a trolly full of ( like 30 jars each) white sauce ( bechamel ) and ragu … with a load of veg .. checked the menu in the place and avg meal starter & main would be just shy of 50 bucks ..
no way of saying it was for hotel and maybe the chap just loved the sauce and it was for himself and if the hotel using it maybe main ingredient is expensive but if they are using it it’s one hell of a mark up !!!
Obviously the situation varies a lot around the country.
I’m curious to know what % of Dublin’s hotel beds are currently being used for non-tourism or business travel purposes i.e. IPAs, homeless etc
It’s a free market, you can choose not to pay the prices, and many of those prices are as a result of decisions made by politicians who add on extra taxes and charges for business. If you want some socialist paradise of regulated prices there’s nothing stopping you trying to run a B&B or restaurant yourself.
I do think price gouging around events should be stopped. If someone books a room and then Taylor swift announces a gig and the hotel cancel the room, they shouldn’t be allowed to resell it. Or at the very least the first booker should have first right of refusal to rebook at the same price or get a high percentage of the profit over there original payment.
Ie
It was time years ago
Do rent first
No because politicians’ mates have invested in these tourism businesses and that would means
they would make less money so not going to happen with the current shower
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No.
But the Govt can stop leasing entire hotels to cover their lack of planning as well as enforcing rules on Airbnbs.
More hotels is how you lower hotel prices. This is always the answer to the thing that is too highly priced. Make more of it.
Yes! Because what we need now the most is hospitality black market!
Interestingly, the [Irish Times has a bit in it today](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2024/07/25/rip-off-ireland-how-do-overseas-tourists-rate-ireland-on-value-for-money/) asking a similar question (do tourists see us as a rip-off). The TLDR of that piece is that yeah, we’re not perceived as cheap but not thought of as that bad either. Some of that may be the strong dollar in fairness.
I think the issue from a domestic perspective is really the hotel prices. People are looking at hotels especially in Dublin and especially around big events and being absolutely gouged out of it. There, you’re not looking for a premium once in a lifetime big trip type deal, you want a cheap bed and that doesn’t exist here.
Is it time to regulate stupid ideas?
The industry is fucked.
If you owned a hotel and the government came along and guaranteed to fill the place for way above market and you don’t need to look after the patrons even half as much as paying customers, who wouldn’t take the deal?
It’s a total joke. They are pushing more and more people towards Airbnb which is making Airbnb more attractive to landlords which is worsening the housing crisis.
FFG are totally inept scumbags. 725m to keep the national broadcaster saying nice things about them but refusing to pay the student nurses who worked during covid says it all.
Last time I stayed in a B+B it was 30 Punts or something.
150 a night each for shared rooms is all kinds of crazy.
No.
We have a huge demand for hotels so the prices are high we need more hotels if anything. Regulating hotels wouldn’t work economically
Back in May, I booked a room for a night just north of the city centre. One room, two adults, for the end of August.
€212.
It’s absolutely criminal. The fact that Irish people are actually supposed to live their lives here is something of an awkward embarrassment for the government; the Republic is a profit centre for multinational financiers. People aren’t actually meant to *exist* there.
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No, stop regulating stuff that doesn’t need to be regulated. This isn’t a critical service. If the government intervenes in this, the hotel owners will start asking for funding and other help from the government too.
If they are too expensive, customers need to stop booking them.
Woke late in the middle of the night one night in late 2022. Sat up scrolling online and seen the Springsteen gigs for summer 23 literally get announced.
Immediately booked a city centre hotel (The Gresham) for the night I wanted to go. Got it for 130, two adults.
Tickets went on sale and didn’t get the night we wanted, so let the room go. Checked back on booking.com a few hrs later and the room was €350 for the same night.
Fcuk as someone from Newry as soon as the Punt changed to the Euro, everything changed
Recently stayed in the west of Ireland .. there is a fairly nice hotel in the area family room is about 320 a night .. popped in to Lidl while there Late one evening and a worker from the hotel ( hotel polo shirt on ) with a trolly full of ( like 30 jars each) white sauce ( bechamel ) and ragu … with a load of veg .. checked the menu in the place and avg meal starter & main would be just shy of 50 bucks ..
no way of saying it was for hotel and maybe the chap just loved the sauce and it was for himself and if the hotel using it maybe main ingredient is expensive but if they are using it it’s one hell of a mark up !!!
Obviously the situation varies a lot around the country.
I’m curious to know what % of Dublin’s hotel beds are currently being used for non-tourism or business travel purposes i.e. IPAs, homeless etc
It’s a free market, you can choose not to pay the prices, and many of those prices are as a result of decisions made by politicians who add on extra taxes and charges for business. If you want some socialist paradise of regulated prices there’s nothing stopping you trying to run a B&B or restaurant yourself.
I do think price gouging around events should be stopped. If someone books a room and then Taylor swift announces a gig and the hotel cancel the room, they shouldn’t be allowed to resell it. Or at the very least the first booker should have first right of refusal to rebook at the same price or get a high percentage of the profit over there original payment.
Ie
It was time years ago
Do rent first
No because politicians’ mates have invested in these tourism businesses and that would means
they would make less money so not going to happen with the current shower