I mean it’s a question of supply and demand, clearly demand is outstripping supply. We need to build more hotels. It’s not like a Dublin hotel is a necessary staple of life.
Just wait until they hear about the tax on puffy director’s pants.
I mean, let’s just not stay in hotels. I work in Hospitality and would never dare pay these rediculous rates. €600+ for a 2-day stay on a weekend (at a 4* hotel anyway), who has this money?!
Completely agree that Dublin doesnt need more hotels, it needs more housing – but they are so profitable, that they will continue sprouting up throughout the city.
What isn’t price gouged in this country?
Everything in this country is overpriced. I honestly think Irish people are just fucking greedy.
My parents were trying to book a Saturday night in may recently for my uncles retirement do.
Minimum 350 for one night. That’s for the rubbish hotels in awkward spots. Normal hotels like jury’s were looking for 500 for the night.
I just checked again there. Jacobs Inn hostel wants 302 for one night.
They are bringing an airbed and staying on the floor in his house instead.
Imagine going on holidays in Ireland when you can travel countries like Italy, Greece, and Spain for cheaper.
I’ve always found holidaying in Ireland to be an utter rip off in general when you consider what you actually get for it. Things are extremely expensive and often time middling value.
Far better to actually go somewhere nice and exotics while still paying similar or even cheaper prices.
No shit you recon? This has been going on for years, it’s why large events like the web summit have decided to move elsewhere.
Surely this is a form of corruption, I bet it is widespread is a lot of industries. Beef for examples, farmers get bad prices from the abattoirs but then they all profit greatly in conjunction with the supermarkets.
We need more hotels in Dublin ,it’s a case of supply and demand.
I’m on a euro trip right now and will be in Ireland next week, we looked at prices for Dublin and even the price of a hostel is so outrageous we’ve decided to skip Dublin entirely. Seriously $100+ (CAD) a night for a hostel bed like what the hell is that.
The rest of the country doesn’t look much better either really we started looking at campsites and could only find overpriced glampsites.
I’ve come to genuinely despise hotels. Every time I see a construction site and I hope for it to be some form of housing it ends up being some shitty chain hotel and I wonder how long it took for the developer responsible to get planning permission, or how long they had owned the plot of land before actually deciding to develop it and how much resources they took up that could have been used for housing. How many builders they had tied up working on their hotel how much of everyone’s time they wasted just so they could build something that would be about as helpful to our current problems like a blood clot in an artery.
Three of the four largest hotels in the city are under long term lease to the government to house asylum seekers and refugees. Two of the hotels were leased before the Ukraine invasion even began. This has a put a major dent in the supply and prices are going to be a lot higher.
Is this a surprise to anyone? There is a reason why short term lets/air bnb are popular and profitable in Dublin. One of the main reasons was the sheer cost of the hotel room. A few years back there was also a huge problem getting a large number of hotel rooms for a workshop that our company was running. Hard to get, not cheap and across a couple hotels. This wasn’t even summer or at weekend. It was a couple of years back not sure if it is still the case.
I got 2 hotel vouchers in the last year and haven’t used either. Even with the voucher it’s still expensive as fuck.
We went on a domestic holiday last year (2 nights in Cobh and 2 nights in Killarney) and the price of those 4 nights was more expensive than when we stayed for 6 nights in a 4 star hotel in Brooklyn 2 years before that.
More fool us for paying it but what with covid and all we were dying to get away and do something.
We’re going to Germany for a week in June. We’re flying back to Dublin and have a gig the day after so figured it’s easier to stay in Dublin than come home to go back.
The 2 nights in Dublin is €220 (which was cheap for the options I had – it’s student accommodation) the entire week in Germany is €498. In a relatively nice spot.
This country is a fucking rip off, end of story. Disgraceful, everything is expensive.
My parents are flying over to visit me soon. Due to the flights being at silly o’clock and no public transport to get them to the airport for their flight, they have to go up the night before and stay in a hotel. They will get there after 10 pm and have to leave shortly after 3am to go to the airport. Those few hours, no food included, will cost more than the trains and flights they are taking.
Wanted to book a hotel for one night this summer. 300 euro or more.
Paying 60euros for a bunk bed in a hostel then an additional 30euros for parking in dublin last weekend….
Yeah I can understand why dublin is being accused of price gouging
Greedy AF
Don’t get me started !!!! Air BnB is as bad. €900 a night for a 2 bed apartment in Galway
Ireland price gouging?!!
I’m shocked
I am about to sound like a snobby prick and get downvoted here but… if you spend 200 euro on hotel in Dublin it will be very average and you will feel ripped off. If you spend 300 euro on a hotel like the marker you get a high end hotel experience and won’t feel ripped off. But yeah, you should be able to get a decent hotel room in the city for 100, but you can’t
I booked a room in a city centre hotel last year for one of the Alan Partridge shows in 3Arena a couple of weekends ago. Got it for €72 which I thought was ok for a night.
Fast forward a few months and Ed Sheeran announces his Croke Park shows for the same weekend.
The exact same hotel room was now going for €250 and stayed at that price right up until the weekend of the show.
We priced it that you could fly and stay for 4 nights in Monaco in the hermitage hotel, with helicopter transfer to monaco from the airport, cheaper than 3 nights in an equivalent starred hotel in Ireland.
This is why I like holidaying in Japan. (That, and being out of phase with work)
When you’re paying >150 a night for a place to sleep you’re getting onsen baths, multi-course breakfasts and meals and comfy, peaceful surrounding.
Here you’ve a matress with piss stains on it, a shower that gurgles when you flush the jacks and staff that would rather you not really be there.
Comfy, not shit, hotel in walking distance of Shinjuku station and it was 86 euro a head a night.
Epic Onsen place with multi-course meals for breakfast and dinner and volcanic spring baths and the like was 200 a head a night.
Dead centre of Hiroshima was 60 euro a night – like, overlooking the Peace Park.
After two weeks of pottering about, the difference would basically pay for the return flight and the train ticket, and it’s a far better holiday.
Because they’re full of homeless and refugees (even pre war)
Why do you think so many hotels are being built in Ireland right now? Because you can get so many rooms built per sq ft and then you have stable occupancy via government and you get guaranteed payment and great payments.
Could this have anything to do, if even a bit, with how the government uses hotels for social housing? Seems like a nice business model for hotels to make a killing while lobbying the government not to build any social housing.
My ma and her partner tried to come up to see me when I’ve been I’ll lately (I’m in uni) it’s a long drive so they said they’d book a hotel or B and B for the night as they can’t drive long up and down etc.
Cheapest they could find was 140 for a B and B that was legit a small thing. Like it’s actually wouldn’t even call it and b n b more like a spare room someone rented but that’s hotel prices.
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I mean it’s a question of supply and demand, clearly demand is outstripping supply. We need to build more hotels. It’s not like a Dublin hotel is a necessary staple of life.
Just wait until they hear about the tax on puffy director’s pants.
I mean, let’s just not stay in hotels. I work in Hospitality and would never dare pay these rediculous rates. €600+ for a 2-day stay on a weekend (at a 4* hotel anyway), who has this money?!
Completely agree that Dublin doesnt need more hotels, it needs more housing – but they are so profitable, that they will continue sprouting up throughout the city.
What isn’t price gouged in this country?
Everything in this country is overpriced. I honestly think Irish people are just fucking greedy.
My parents were trying to book a Saturday night in may recently for my uncles retirement do.
Minimum 350 for one night. That’s for the rubbish hotels in awkward spots. Normal hotels like jury’s were looking for 500 for the night.
I just checked again there. Jacobs Inn hostel wants 302 for one night.
They are bringing an airbed and staying on the floor in his house instead.
Imagine going on holidays in Ireland when you can travel countries like Italy, Greece, and Spain for cheaper.
I’ve always found holidaying in Ireland to be an utter rip off in general when you consider what you actually get for it. Things are extremely expensive and often time middling value.
Far better to actually go somewhere nice and exotics while still paying similar or even cheaper prices.
No shit you recon? This has been going on for years, it’s why large events like the web summit have decided to move elsewhere.
Surely this is a form of corruption, I bet it is widespread is a lot of industries. Beef for examples, farmers get bad prices from the abattoirs but then they all profit greatly in conjunction with the supermarkets.
We need more hotels in Dublin ,it’s a case of supply and demand.
I’m on a euro trip right now and will be in Ireland next week, we looked at prices for Dublin and even the price of a hostel is so outrageous we’ve decided to skip Dublin entirely. Seriously $100+ (CAD) a night for a hostel bed like what the hell is that.
The rest of the country doesn’t look much better either really we started looking at campsites and could only find overpriced glampsites.
I’ve come to genuinely despise hotels. Every time I see a construction site and I hope for it to be some form of housing it ends up being some shitty chain hotel and I wonder how long it took for the developer responsible to get planning permission, or how long they had owned the plot of land before actually deciding to develop it and how much resources they took up that could have been used for housing. How many builders they had tied up working on their hotel how much of everyone’s time they wasted just so they could build something that would be about as helpful to our current problems like a blood clot in an artery.
Three of the four largest hotels in the city are under long term lease to the government to house asylum seekers and refugees. Two of the hotels were leased before the Ukraine invasion even began. This has a put a major dent in the supply and prices are going to be a lot higher.
Is this a surprise to anyone? There is a reason why short term lets/air bnb are popular and profitable in Dublin. One of the main reasons was the sheer cost of the hotel room. A few years back there was also a huge problem getting a large number of hotel rooms for a workshop that our company was running. Hard to get, not cheap and across a couple hotels. This wasn’t even summer or at weekend. It was a couple of years back not sure if it is still the case.
I got 2 hotel vouchers in the last year and haven’t used either. Even with the voucher it’s still expensive as fuck.
We went on a domestic holiday last year (2 nights in Cobh and 2 nights in Killarney) and the price of those 4 nights was more expensive than when we stayed for 6 nights in a 4 star hotel in Brooklyn 2 years before that.
More fool us for paying it but what with covid and all we were dying to get away and do something.
We’re going to Germany for a week in June. We’re flying back to Dublin and have a gig the day after so figured it’s easier to stay in Dublin than come home to go back.
The 2 nights in Dublin is €220 (which was cheap for the options I had – it’s student accommodation) the entire week in Germany is €498. In a relatively nice spot.
This country is a fucking rip off, end of story. Disgraceful, everything is expensive.
My parents are flying over to visit me soon. Due to the flights being at silly o’clock and no public transport to get them to the airport for their flight, they have to go up the night before and stay in a hotel. They will get there after 10 pm and have to leave shortly after 3am to go to the airport. Those few hours, no food included, will cost more than the trains and flights they are taking.
Wanted to book a hotel for one night this summer. 300 euro or more.
Paying 60euros for a bunk bed in a hostel then an additional 30euros for parking in dublin last weekend….
Yeah I can understand why dublin is being accused of price gouging
Greedy AF
Don’t get me started !!!! Air BnB is as bad. €900 a night for a 2 bed apartment in Galway
Ireland price gouging?!!
I’m shocked
I am about to sound like a snobby prick and get downvoted here but… if you spend 200 euro on hotel in Dublin it will be very average and you will feel ripped off. If you spend 300 euro on a hotel like the marker you get a high end hotel experience and won’t feel ripped off. But yeah, you should be able to get a decent hotel room in the city for 100, but you can’t
I booked a room in a city centre hotel last year for one of the Alan Partridge shows in 3Arena a couple of weekends ago. Got it for €72 which I thought was ok for a night.
Fast forward a few months and Ed Sheeran announces his Croke Park shows for the same weekend.
The exact same hotel room was now going for €250 and stayed at that price right up until the weekend of the show.
We priced it that you could fly and stay for 4 nights in Monaco in the hermitage hotel, with helicopter transfer to monaco from the airport, cheaper than 3 nights in an equivalent starred hotel in Ireland.
This is why I like holidaying in Japan. (That, and being out of phase with work)
When you’re paying >150 a night for a place to sleep you’re getting onsen baths, multi-course breakfasts and meals and comfy, peaceful surrounding.
Here you’ve a matress with piss stains on it, a shower that gurgles when you flush the jacks and staff that would rather you not really be there.
Comfy, not shit, hotel in walking distance of Shinjuku station and it was 86 euro a head a night.
Epic Onsen place with multi-course meals for breakfast and dinner and volcanic spring baths and the like was 200 a head a night.
Dead centre of Hiroshima was 60 euro a night – like, overlooking the Peace Park.
After two weeks of pottering about, the difference would basically pay for the return flight and the train ticket, and it’s a far better holiday.
Because they’re full of homeless and refugees (even pre war)
Why do you think so many hotels are being built in Ireland right now? Because you can get so many rooms built per sq ft and then you have stable occupancy via government and you get guaranteed payment and great payments.
Could this have anything to do, if even a bit, with how the government uses hotels for social housing? Seems like a nice business model for hotels to make a killing while lobbying the government not to build any social housing.
My ma and her partner tried to come up to see me when I’ve been I’ll lately (I’m in uni) it’s a long drive so they said they’d book a hotel or B and B for the night as they can’t drive long up and down etc.
Cheapest they could find was 140 for a B and B that was legit a small thing. Like it’s actually wouldn’t even call it and b n b more like a spare room someone rented but that’s hotel prices.