You mean people aren’t into €7.50 pints and €29 mains, no way.
The tent district i was sure to be a must see for tourists.
I’m shocked! You mean people don’t want rip off pints and food and city full of cars and horse shit and just other hotels to visit! Well colour me surprised.
I guess €399.99 hotel rooms arent for everyone
Word’s out….pints be too expensive 🤧
Did they try lowering prices?
The headline is quite negative but the details in the article make it sound like the sector is more or less steady, which doesn’t really jibe with the claims that there’s a big problem that needs big interventions.
This is greed killing the goose that laid the golden egg. By ripping people off and offering very little in the way of value for money people will just stop coming.
Fuck going away in Ireland. Its extortion.
You are telling me that 7.5 – 10 eur pints, getting robbed or beaten to pulp is off putting to some?
There’s no hotel rooms to stay in
Good
Looked at booking a family room in dingle skelligs for next year.. I was quoted 2200 for 4 DAYS. We went to Spain for way less for a week this year and dined out every night. I’d love to stay in Ireland for family time but every single place takes the piss
Good. Maybe it will change something
Radio head sing a song about this.
🤣
Well yeah, hospitality is pricing itself out of existence. A lot of these money gouging restaurants were only viable with a sweetheart VAT deal that was always temporary. I’ve no sympathy for hospitality owners, work in a pub as a student for one night and tell me that you do. Selling single pints that are 80% your hourly wage.
Irish people, especially young people drink less, that means we need less pubs than previously. Bit of a side track on this but anecdotally as a student, the MUP has been the greatest single thing in increasing cannabis consumption ever. People just prefer value and just want a vice that allows them to escape their life. If alcohol is too expensive in pubs and shops, they swap over to weed which is basically the same in terms of harm but also provides that vice and avoids the hangover + save their livers.
The report seems solely concerned about factors outside the hospitality industry’s control like the weather, economic uncertainty and rising taxes in the UK etc and makes little to no mention of how price gouging & terrible value may be playing a part. The industry is going through tough times no doubt but they need to start looking at themselves too and stop blaming everyone else.
Greed.
Ireland could have continued to have a good thing with regards to tourism. But hoteliers and publicans/restaurant owners in tourist areas continually upped prices with no improvement to the quality of goods or service delivered.
Even as a domestic tourist – places I once went to for a few nights have near doubled in price, and if anything have gotten worse in terms of what you get.
Wake up call, hopefully.
You would think a newspaper like the Irish times would have software to proofread articles before release?
“It’s do to with the economic outlook really,” said Caeman Wall,
Who’d have thought making Ireland too expensive to live or holiday in, while scrubbing its main city of all its character, would bite Tourism in the àss?
I was down in Kerry during the summer. I know Airbnb can be controversial, but people hosting their spare bedrooms was way cheaper than staying in a hotel.
I honestly think if we focused on trying to make Irish towns and villages better places to live we’d do better in terms of tourism.
Places like Achill every second house on the island is unoccupied or used for accommodation a few weeks a year. Locals can’t find a place to rent.
Everything costs a fortune, you need a car to get anywhere.
Towns like Westport and castlebar fully dependent on cars.
Train service is shite and then trains take you outside of these towns.
The Greenway in mayo was originally lovely but they cut down a load of the trees and hedges so now you’re basically on the road.
Nature is destroyed everywhere so hiking or camping loses so much appeal.
AirBnb (among other things) wrecked the hotel and b&b industry which hurts the local area but also the atmosphere, the centralisation of people in towns and villages not car loads of travellers staying in random rented houses in linear development.
I honestly think planning changes and a push to make our towns and villages more accessible, car free and lived in would go a long way to making them more livable. would make people live there all year round, would support pubs and restaurants and culture in a way that would make it more rewarding to visit and stay in. Not stop for an hour on a bus tour.
No doubt, like most business companies do, they will double down and raise prices again to try and catch up.
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But there’s so much value for money out there!
You mean people aren’t into €7.50 pints and €29 mains, no way.
The tent district i was sure to be a must see for tourists.
I’m shocked! You mean people don’t want rip off pints and food and city full of cars and horse shit and just other hotels to visit! Well colour me surprised.
I guess €399.99 hotel rooms arent for everyone
Word’s out….pints be too expensive 🤧
Did they try lowering prices?
The headline is quite negative but the details in the article make it sound like the sector is more or less steady, which doesn’t really jibe with the claims that there’s a big problem that needs big interventions.
This is greed killing the goose that laid the golden egg. By ripping people off and offering very little in the way of value for money people will just stop coming.
Fuck going away in Ireland. Its extortion.
You are telling me that 7.5 – 10 eur pints, getting robbed or beaten to pulp is off putting to some?
There’s no hotel rooms to stay in
Good
Looked at booking a family room in dingle skelligs for next year.. I was quoted 2200 for 4 DAYS. We went to Spain for way less for a week this year and dined out every night. I’d love to stay in Ireland for family time but every single place takes the piss
Good. Maybe it will change something
Radio head sing a song about this.
🤣
Well yeah, hospitality is pricing itself out of existence. A lot of these money gouging restaurants were only viable with a sweetheart VAT deal that was always temporary. I’ve no sympathy for hospitality owners, work in a pub as a student for one night and tell me that you do. Selling single pints that are 80% your hourly wage.
Irish people, especially young people drink less, that means we need less pubs than previously. Bit of a side track on this but anecdotally as a student, the MUP has been the greatest single thing in increasing cannabis consumption ever. People just prefer value and just want a vice that allows them to escape their life. If alcohol is too expensive in pubs and shops, they swap over to weed which is basically the same in terms of harm but also provides that vice and avoids the hangover + save their livers.
The report seems solely concerned about factors outside the hospitality industry’s control like the weather, economic uncertainty and rising taxes in the UK etc and makes little to no mention of how price gouging & terrible value may be playing a part. The industry is going through tough times no doubt but they need to start looking at themselves too and stop blaming everyone else.
Greed.
Ireland could have continued to have a good thing with regards to tourism. But hoteliers and publicans/restaurant owners in tourist areas continually upped prices with no improvement to the quality of goods or service delivered.
Even as a domestic tourist – places I once went to for a few nights have near doubled in price, and if anything have gotten worse in terms of what you get.
Wake up call, hopefully.
You would think a newspaper like the Irish times would have software to proofread articles before release?
“It’s do to with the economic outlook really,” said Caeman Wall,
Who’d have thought making Ireland too expensive to live or holiday in, while scrubbing its main city of all its character, would bite Tourism in the àss?
I was down in Kerry during the summer. I know Airbnb can be controversial, but people hosting their spare bedrooms was way cheaper than staying in a hotel.
I honestly think if we focused on trying to make Irish towns and villages better places to live we’d do better in terms of tourism.
Places like Achill every second house on the island is unoccupied or used for accommodation a few weeks a year. Locals can’t find a place to rent.
Everything costs a fortune, you need a car to get anywhere.
Towns like Westport and castlebar fully dependent on cars.
Train service is shite and then trains take you outside of these towns.
The Greenway in mayo was originally lovely but they cut down a load of the trees and hedges so now you’re basically on the road.
Nature is destroyed everywhere so hiking or camping loses so much appeal.
AirBnb (among other things) wrecked the hotel and b&b industry which hurts the local area but also the atmosphere, the centralisation of people in towns and villages not car loads of travellers staying in random rented houses in linear development.
I honestly think planning changes and a push to make our towns and villages more accessible, car free and lived in would go a long way to making them more livable. would make people live there all year round, would support pubs and restaurants and culture in a way that would make it more rewarding to visit and stay in. Not stop for an hour on a bus tour.
No doubt, like most business companies do, they will double down and raise prices again to try and catch up.