Has the industry considered looking at their own prices? Or will they just ask for another subsidy?
I’m not industry expert but here are a few things that I think might be a factor
* Price of accommodation
* Price of car rental
* Price of eating out
* Price of drink
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that it is cheaper to go somewhere else in Europe, get more and spend much less.
Crisis point or not, trying to stay in a decent hotel within Ireland is extortionately expensive and has been like that for a few years. Not sustainable.
Well stop filling up all our hotels with IPAS and refugees so ye greedy cunts.
Everything is way too dear. We are pricing ourselves out of it
I’m still a little sceptical of how bad it is for the industry, this current round of discourse is based on two months of falling numbers, in the quietest portion of the year. Dramatic falls sure, but still. It’ll be clearer as we get into the summer if this is actually that bad.
That said, there are obvious headwinds against the industry. America is all fucky, and that’s going to impact American tourists.
Hotel pints in Kerry are €10.50.
Uhm, 30% drop in 12 months time sounds like you’re already in a crisis. You are heading towards a catastrophe.
High hotel and food costs. Also the ‘quaint villages’ or yee olde ireland ideas that say Americans would flock here for is no longer here. Not a comment on immigration but this going to destroy future tourism also when people know their idea of Ireland no longer exists.
Hospitality has been incentivised to charge top rates in exchange for being emergency accommodation. It’s a sure thing compared to the actual hospitality trade—of course they’re going to screw average punters.
Remember when we all came out to support them post-COVID and they were charging a grand for a week in some shitbox and €25 for nuggets and chips?
They can rot.
Tourism industry when people stop coming after they price everyone out of the market
I’m coming for 10 days in June. Ireland is expensive af
I’m a non EU citizen living in Ireland, I am forced to do day trips because of how expensive it is to stay everywhere in Ireland. You can find budget stays but you have to have your trip planned very early
3 years since i last stayed in a hotel in ireland. Made the decision that im not paying those extortionate prices anymore. Used to go on weekend breaks 2 or 3 times a year to the like of sligo and westport.
I went to albufeira for 4 days for 200 per person last week. Flight and accommodation. Car hire was 12 euro for 4 days. Food and drink are cheaper than here. There is not a chance I could get that anywhere in Ireland.
I love Ireland. I mean, really love it. Love the people, the culture, the countryside, the history, the craic, but..fuck me it’s too expensive
Talking to a group of Dutch lads during the Six Nations against France and for the group of them, they’d spent about €2,200 to come here.
Myself and 3 friends are spending €2,600 to go to New York this summer.
They’ve only themselves to blame, the greedy pricks and more fool you if you fall for this “VAT rate” fucking nonsense they’re spewing to continue lining their pockets.
I personally hope alot of the industry hits the wall for charging locals tourist prices for the last 5 years.
Good. Screw them for their greed
Had a look at hotels yesterday in the Westport/Castlebar area. 300-600 for one night was the main price range. Fuck right off
Last year I was trying to book a hotel in Dublin city centre for a work trip. All the hotels were in the region of €300+. Then I found one for about €140. Great I thought. Clicked on the link and discovered it was for a bed in a 6 bed room in a hostel.
That’s when I realised the Tourism industry in Ireland was screwed. I just drove up and down to the meeting. Most tourists will just go to a country that doesn’t rip them off.
IPAS has taken over a load of rooms and the tourism/corporate sector is left to compete for the rest. This was bound to happen
15€ pints
Car rental in Ireland has gone way down. It was astronomical post Covid but is ok now. Booked a car for visitors arriving mid April for a well and it was bizarrely cheap from Dublin airport.
But that’s also a bad sign, clearly demand is low.
It’ll be grand, sure it’ll all work itself out. Just keep voting FF & FG
Prices are mad in Ireland
INEC
“Pint” of bulmers in a plastic glass
Bottle of Cronins cider alcohol free
€13.30
We just had the one……
Another issue is that tourists have nowhere to stay as the majority of hotels and accommodations have been given to migrants.
Back in 2002 Mosney shut down to become a refugee housing centre. A part of the reasoning was that it was struggling to match the value of the cheap sun holidays that were becoming more popular at the time.
Has anything changed?
Centre parks now is a lot more expensive than a sun holiday in Europe.
More hotels are becoming asylum centres because they can’t compete.
Also price gouging for gigs and the whole ‘holiday at home’ during covid when they all put up their prices has left a lot of bad feeling.
To unwind we used to go to places like Glendalough for a few weekends a year. Stay in a hotel or bnb for a couple of days.
We would eat and have a few coffees and go for walks in the rest of the national park etc and then have dinner a few drinks in the evening.
A couple of years ago hotels and bnbs got way too expensive suddenly so we would drive the hour and a half there and the same home and only stay there for the day instead of the weekend. So no dinner out or drinks in the evenings. Just an oven dinner a bottle of wine and a movie when we arrive home.
Last year noticed that coffee had got to extortionate prices as had the food so we took a flask and sambos from home when we went last month. But now all we see somewhere in Ireland out for the day is what a ripoff it has become. We look up hotel now, in hope, for those places but 100% of the time it just gives us a laugh how much the prices went up.
Just back from a weekend in Paris. Flights are not much more expensive than petrol. Airbnb was less than half the price of one in Ireland. Hotels were cheaper too but we hadn’t looked at them before we booked the Airbnb.
Car hire (we ended up not needing a car) was less than half the price of car hire in Ireland if we wanted to drive further afield.
Next weekends away are going to be abroad for sure. We’ve prices up a few trips now for the coming year and I can safely say that it’s cheaper to go abroad and better chance of nice weather too than to keep taking weekends away in Ireland.
They increase prices knowing that we Irish will be like, “Ah sure, go on”, but not realising that people outside the country will tell you to fuck off.
I’m half glad it’s happening. Greedy little country.
Went to do a week in the West. Hotel wanted more than it cost me to Book 10 days in a five star hotel in Lake Garda Italy incl Flights.
So Italy here I come
A lot of hotels are stuck in the 1990s with dirty carpets and the smell of drink. Everywhere else in Europe they’ve been renovated and updated
I can’t count on my fingers the about of European friends who have said “I’d love to visit Ireland, but it’s so expensive”.
Even when I go home I don’t go beyond that, despite how much I’d like to do some touring with my partner. We just visit home and then go somewhere else in Europe at a fraction of the price.
When the government stop renting out hotels on masse for accommodation the floor is gonna fall out of the sector and I honestly think they deserve it.
I remember having wedding accommodation I booked months in advance cancel on me after they decided it was more lucrative to go with a government contract to house refugees.
They have only themselves to blame. The cost of hotels is a joke. And only getting worse.
Good, they deserve it.
Fantastic to hear the tears and cries of these greedy gauging cunts as the chickens come home to roost.
Where was all the concern when Irish people holidaying at home and tourists were being ripped off?
Where were these cries when greedy hoteliers decided to become slumlords for refugees and immigrants?
There wasn’t a cheep. So now everyone is off for a holiday thats cheaper, warmer and just all round a better experience, we need to feel sorry for the poor downtrodden hoteliers and rip off artists?
They can get fucked.
Irish tourism seems to be very hostile towards domestic holiday makers.
Maybe lower prices a bit.
Would love to go on holiday in Ireland. Just too damn expensive.
We were over in London for the weekend for a short break and in the past we couldn’t believe the price of things over there.
Now we can’t believe it’s cheaper in ways than Ireland. Things like bits in the shop or coffee in particular really stood out.
Amazingly if you fill a large number of the hotels with questionable asylum seekers you will see a rapid rise in the price of hotel accommodation.
LOWER. PRICES.
I live abroad l and when friends tell me they are going to Europe and stopping in Ireland I say to them if your concerned about money don’t bother. Go to eastern Europe or the south your money goes a lot further and the weather is so much better.
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Has the industry considered looking at their own prices? Or will they just ask for another subsidy?
I’m not industry expert but here are a few things that I think might be a factor
* Price of accommodation
* Price of car rental
* Price of eating out
* Price of drink
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that it is cheaper to go somewhere else in Europe, get more and spend much less.
Crisis point or not, trying to stay in a decent hotel within Ireland is extortionately expensive and has been like that for a few years. Not sustainable.
Well stop filling up all our hotels with IPAS and refugees so ye greedy cunts.
Everything is way too dear. We are pricing ourselves out of it
I’m still a little sceptical of how bad it is for the industry, this current round of discourse is based on two months of falling numbers, in the quietest portion of the year. Dramatic falls sure, but still. It’ll be clearer as we get into the summer if this is actually that bad.
That said, there are obvious headwinds against the industry. America is all fucky, and that’s going to impact American tourists.
Hotel pints in Kerry are €10.50.
Uhm, 30% drop in 12 months time sounds like you’re already in a crisis. You are heading towards a catastrophe.
High hotel and food costs. Also the ‘quaint villages’ or yee olde ireland ideas that say Americans would flock here for is no longer here. Not a comment on immigration but this going to destroy future tourism also when people know their idea of Ireland no longer exists.
Hospitality has been incentivised to charge top rates in exchange for being emergency accommodation. It’s a sure thing compared to the actual hospitality trade—of course they’re going to screw average punters.
Remember when we all came out to support them post-COVID and they were charging a grand for a week in some shitbox and €25 for nuggets and chips?
They can rot.
Tourism industry when people stop coming after they price everyone out of the market
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I’m coming for 10 days in June. Ireland is expensive af
I’m a non EU citizen living in Ireland, I am forced to do day trips because of how expensive it is to stay everywhere in Ireland. You can find budget stays but you have to have your trip planned very early
3 years since i last stayed in a hotel in ireland. Made the decision that im not paying those extortionate prices anymore. Used to go on weekend breaks 2 or 3 times a year to the like of sligo and westport.
I went to albufeira for 4 days for 200 per person last week. Flight and accommodation. Car hire was 12 euro for 4 days. Food and drink are cheaper than here. There is not a chance I could get that anywhere in Ireland.
I love Ireland. I mean, really love it. Love the people, the culture, the countryside, the history, the craic, but..fuck me it’s too expensive
Talking to a group of Dutch lads during the Six Nations against France and for the group of them, they’d spent about €2,200 to come here.
Myself and 3 friends are spending €2,600 to go to New York this summer.
They’ve only themselves to blame, the greedy pricks and more fool you if you fall for this “VAT rate” fucking nonsense they’re spewing to continue lining their pockets.
I personally hope alot of the industry hits the wall for charging locals tourist prices for the last 5 years.
Good. Screw them for their greed
Had a look at hotels yesterday in the Westport/Castlebar area. 300-600 for one night was the main price range. Fuck right off
Last year I was trying to book a hotel in Dublin city centre for a work trip. All the hotels were in the region of €300+. Then I found one for about €140. Great I thought. Clicked on the link and discovered it was for a bed in a 6 bed room in a hostel.
That’s when I realised the Tourism industry in Ireland was screwed. I just drove up and down to the meeting. Most tourists will just go to a country that doesn’t rip them off.
IPAS has taken over a load of rooms and the tourism/corporate sector is left to compete for the rest. This was bound to happen
15€ pints
Car rental in Ireland has gone way down. It was astronomical post Covid but is ok now. Booked a car for visitors arriving mid April for a well and it was bizarrely cheap from Dublin airport.
But that’s also a bad sign, clearly demand is low.
It’ll be grand, sure it’ll all work itself out. Just keep voting FF & FG
Prices are mad in Ireland
INEC
“Pint” of bulmers in a plastic glass
Bottle of Cronins cider alcohol free
€13.30
We just had the one……
Another issue is that tourists have nowhere to stay as the majority of hotels and accommodations have been given to migrants.
Back in 2002 Mosney shut down to become a refugee housing centre. A part of the reasoning was that it was struggling to match the value of the cheap sun holidays that were becoming more popular at the time.
Has anything changed?
Centre parks now is a lot more expensive than a sun holiday in Europe.
More hotels are becoming asylum centres because they can’t compete.
Also price gouging for gigs and the whole ‘holiday at home’ during covid when they all put up their prices has left a lot of bad feeling.
To unwind we used to go to places like Glendalough for a few weekends a year. Stay in a hotel or bnb for a couple of days.
We would eat and have a few coffees and go for walks in the rest of the national park etc and then have dinner a few drinks in the evening.
A couple of years ago hotels and bnbs got way too expensive suddenly so we would drive the hour and a half there and the same home and only stay there for the day instead of the weekend. So no dinner out or drinks in the evenings. Just an oven dinner a bottle of wine and a movie when we arrive home.
Last year noticed that coffee had got to extortionate prices as had the food so we took a flask and sambos from home when we went last month. But now all we see somewhere in Ireland out for the day is what a ripoff it has become. We look up hotel now, in hope, for those places but 100% of the time it just gives us a laugh how much the prices went up.
Just back from a weekend in Paris. Flights are not much more expensive than petrol. Airbnb was less than half the price of one in Ireland. Hotels were cheaper too but we hadn’t looked at them before we booked the Airbnb.
Car hire (we ended up not needing a car) was less than half the price of car hire in Ireland if we wanted to drive further afield.
Next weekends away are going to be abroad for sure. We’ve prices up a few trips now for the coming year and I can safely say that it’s cheaper to go abroad and better chance of nice weather too than to keep taking weekends away in Ireland.
They increase prices knowing that we Irish will be like, “Ah sure, go on”, but not realising that people outside the country will tell you to fuck off.
I’m half glad it’s happening. Greedy little country.
Went to do a week in the West. Hotel wanted more than it cost me to Book 10 days in a five star hotel in Lake Garda Italy incl Flights.
So Italy here I come
A lot of hotels are stuck in the 1990s with dirty carpets and the smell of drink. Everywhere else in Europe they’ve been renovated and updated
I can’t count on my fingers the about of European friends who have said “I’d love to visit Ireland, but it’s so expensive”.
Even when I go home I don’t go beyond that, despite how much I’d like to do some touring with my partner. We just visit home and then go somewhere else in Europe at a fraction of the price.
When the government stop renting out hotels on masse for accommodation the floor is gonna fall out of the sector and I honestly think they deserve it.
I remember having wedding accommodation I booked months in advance cancel on me after they decided it was more lucrative to go with a government contract to house refugees.
They have only themselves to blame. The cost of hotels is a joke. And only getting worse.
Good, they deserve it.
Fantastic to hear the tears and cries of these greedy gauging cunts as the chickens come home to roost.
Where was all the concern when Irish people holidaying at home and tourists were being ripped off?
Where were these cries when greedy hoteliers decided to become slumlords for refugees and immigrants?
There wasn’t a cheep. So now everyone is off for a holiday thats cheaper, warmer and just all round a better experience, we need to feel sorry for the poor downtrodden hoteliers and rip off artists?
They can get fucked.
Irish tourism seems to be very hostile towards domestic holiday makers.
Maybe lower prices a bit.
Would love to go on holiday in Ireland. Just too damn expensive.
We were over in London for the weekend for a short break and in the past we couldn’t believe the price of things over there.
Now we can’t believe it’s cheaper in ways than Ireland. Things like bits in the shop or coffee in particular really stood out.
Amazingly if you fill a large number of the hotels with questionable asylum seekers you will see a rapid rise in the price of hotel accommodation.
LOWER. PRICES.
I live abroad l and when friends tell me they are going to Europe and stopping in Ireland I say to them if your concerned about money don’t bother. Go to eastern Europe or the south your money goes a lot further and the weather is so much better.
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