>He advised to haggle with short-term letting operators like AirBnB to see if they can get a better deal.
How to get told to fuck off.
That’s insane. You could buy outright a perfectly functional car for a fraction of that and sell it on later, after your trip. If you were here for 3+ weeks, it would surely be worth the hassle to save €10K, once you could find a way to insure it. Or would you need an Irish address and/or license to do that?
This is because hertz and their subsidiaries sold off all their stock during covid(remember the adverts? I do) now they can get new stock. Geniuses.
I was paying 1k a month when we moved to Ireland last year for a midsize car … something must be wrong here
The Irish tourism industry is going to die
Just priced a VW Polo for last week July. $1600 for 7 days. Not a hope.
€10k could surely hire a private driver and car for the trip
Recession incoming
This country is fucked..
As others have noted its because they had to sell loads of their vehicles and now there’s no enough supply.
Rental companies make their money primarily off tourists & providing a hire car during an insurance claim. Last two years have seen tourism and claim levels fall off a cliff and hit them hard. Now replacing the vehicles costs a bomb, it’ll take time unfortunately
Renting cars here is a pain compaired to rest of europe.
Rented car in Spain when parents came to visit inlaws and just needed to show passport and pay with credit card.
The reverse trip in Dublin needed 2 pieces of proof of address on top passport and credit card payment. Even then the rep treated us like we were going to use the car to run drugs over the boarder.
Not to mention it being cheaper in Spain
Scam republic.
Partner and I heading home to Kilkenny next month for the weekend. We wanted to rent a car for three days because my parents don’t drive and getting public transport between Dublin Airport and the town I live in outside Kilkenny city is a ball ache. €800 to rent a car from Friday evening to Sunday evening. Absolutely insane. It will be public transport for us.
Air B&B car edition is about to be made.
This stuff is crazy? How is it happening? Why is everything in this country just completely upside down?
I was quoted over 2.5k€ insurance/year as a German for a 2.5k€ used irish car.
I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve had to rent a car when travelling elsewhere in Europe. The hidden issue here is our embarrassingly terrible public transport infrastructure
Sorry my sis was meant to go to the states and rent a car. €2k on the Irish hertz site. Booted up the vpn, the same car, the same dates etc only cost her $979. Seems no excuse for that sort of shite
I’m not sure what the grand financial master plan is here? No one can afford these prices except business people that can expense it to their multinationals.
How do you make money when you make your services unaffordable to a majority of your customers?
I was looking at car rental for just 9 days and it is cheaper to get a 15 year old 2nd hand car and have it scrapped when I’m done. I could probably sell it afterwards and make some of my money back.
Rent a car un Northern Ireland.. far better rates ..fly to Belfast .. and trott on.
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We won’t have to worry about tourists being ripped off at every turn…in a few years there won’t be any tourists in this dreadfully run shit box.
“That’s price gouging,” said Fianna Fail senator Timmy Dooley (who neglected to add that there was about as much chance of him doing anything about it as him being elected back into the Dail next time out).
Scam-delous!
Mates uncle who came back to Ireland for 6 weeks after living in America for 3 years got the same quote for a 19 Passat, how is that even feasible for a tourist. You would need very deep pockets to do the holiday and get the car
_“…travel broadcaster Fergal O’Keefe said the pent-up demand for international travel following the pandemic has led to hefty increases in prices.”_
So, to cut through the bullshit here for a second, because there’s high demand from tourists wanting to come here after sitting indoors for two years, the hoteliers of this country decide that it’s a good idea to embarrass themselves on the world stage by gouging the international visitor for more than the price of a two night stay in Paris for a two bed room in a hostel in Dublin.
There’s no artificial mechanism that’s pushing these prices up, it’s greedy bastards in the hostel and hotel sector trying to get away with as much daylight robbery as possible.
They’d eat their young, the fuckers.
I’m a tourist with a rental car right now in Ireland and we paid around €890 for two weeks with insurance. We booked with Sixt months back and got upgraded to a Seat arona when we arrived, we noticed it was probably double the cost to rent an automatic so we got a standard and learned to drive it very quickly ;).
I dont know who would want to pay these obnoxious prices honestly, car rentel prices like that and bed rates in Dublin are not worth it I think the well will run dry if that carries on.
He advised to haggle with short-term letting operators like AirBnB to see if they can get a better deal.
So tourists should haggle with Airbnb owners but not hotels… right….
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>He advised to haggle with short-term letting operators like AirBnB to see if they can get a better deal.
How to get told to fuck off.
That’s insane. You could buy outright a perfectly functional car for a fraction of that and sell it on later, after your trip. If you were here for 3+ weeks, it would surely be worth the hassle to save €10K, once you could find a way to insure it. Or would you need an Irish address and/or license to do that?
This is because hertz and their subsidiaries sold off all their stock during covid(remember the adverts? I do) now they can get new stock. Geniuses.
I was paying 1k a month when we moved to Ireland last year for a midsize car … something must be wrong here
The Irish tourism industry is going to die
Just priced a VW Polo for last week July. $1600 for 7 days. Not a hope.
€10k could surely hire a private driver and car for the trip
Recession incoming
This country is fucked..
As others have noted its because they had to sell loads of their vehicles and now there’s no enough supply.
Rental companies make their money primarily off tourists & providing a hire car during an insurance claim. Last two years have seen tourism and claim levels fall off a cliff and hit them hard. Now replacing the vehicles costs a bomb, it’ll take time unfortunately
Renting cars here is a pain compaired to rest of europe.
Rented car in Spain when parents came to visit inlaws and just needed to show passport and pay with credit card.
The reverse trip in Dublin needed 2 pieces of proof of address on top passport and credit card payment. Even then the rep treated us like we were going to use the car to run drugs over the boarder.
Not to mention it being cheaper in Spain
Scam republic.
Partner and I heading home to Kilkenny next month for the weekend. We wanted to rent a car for three days because my parents don’t drive and getting public transport between Dublin Airport and the town I live in outside Kilkenny city is a ball ache. €800 to rent a car from Friday evening to Sunday evening. Absolutely insane. It will be public transport for us.
Air B&B car edition is about to be made.
This stuff is crazy? How is it happening? Why is everything in this country just completely upside down?
I was quoted over 2.5k€ insurance/year as a German for a 2.5k€ used irish car.
I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve had to rent a car when travelling elsewhere in Europe. The hidden issue here is our embarrassingly terrible public transport infrastructure
Sorry my sis was meant to go to the states and rent a car. €2k on the Irish hertz site. Booted up the vpn, the same car, the same dates etc only cost her $979. Seems no excuse for that sort of shite
I’m not sure what the grand financial master plan is here? No one can afford these prices except business people that can expense it to their multinationals.
How do you make money when you make your services unaffordable to a majority of your customers?
I was looking at car rental for just 9 days and it is cheaper to get a 15 year old 2nd hand car and have it scrapped when I’m done. I could probably sell it afterwards and make some of my money back.
Rent a car un Northern Ireland.. far better rates ..fly to Belfast .. and trott on.
[deleted]
We won’t have to worry about tourists being ripped off at every turn…in a few years there won’t be any tourists in this dreadfully run shit box.
“That’s price gouging,” said Fianna Fail senator Timmy Dooley (who neglected to add that there was about as much chance of him doing anything about it as him being elected back into the Dail next time out).
Scam-delous!
Mates uncle who came back to Ireland for 6 weeks after living in America for 3 years got the same quote for a 19 Passat, how is that even feasible for a tourist. You would need very deep pockets to do the holiday and get the car
_“…travel broadcaster Fergal O’Keefe said the pent-up demand for international travel following the pandemic has led to hefty increases in prices.”_
So, to cut through the bullshit here for a second, because there’s high demand from tourists wanting to come here after sitting indoors for two years, the hoteliers of this country decide that it’s a good idea to embarrass themselves on the world stage by gouging the international visitor for more than the price of a two night stay in Paris for a two bed room in a hostel in Dublin.
There’s no artificial mechanism that’s pushing these prices up, it’s greedy bastards in the hostel and hotel sector trying to get away with as much daylight robbery as possible.
They’d eat their young, the fuckers.
I’m a tourist with a rental car right now in Ireland and we paid around €890 for two weeks with insurance. We booked with Sixt months back and got upgraded to a Seat arona when we arrived, we noticed it was probably double the cost to rent an automatic so we got a standard and learned to drive it very quickly ;).
I dont know who would want to pay these obnoxious prices honestly, car rentel prices like that and bed rates in Dublin are not worth it I think the well will run dry if that carries on.
He advised to haggle with short-term letting operators like AirBnB to see if they can get a better deal.
So tourists should haggle with Airbnb owners but not hotels… right….