It ain’t a 4 star hotel. And it ain’t anywhere you want to see in Germany…
Twin room in Killarney was 45 euro in 2009. I have no idea how much does it go nowadays
Yes the Düsseldorf airport hotel on a Tuesday maybe. Sure Ireland is expensive but you’re not going to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt on that money
All the hotels are basically refugee centres now that’s why
We are a rip off for pretty much everything you can purchase here compared to other countries I don’t know why fools are blaming refugees and COVID lol
Having been doing staycations for the last few years I’m saving loads going abroad this year. 3 nights in Galway with a nice room €750, 9 days in Spain with a balcony facing out to the sea €450. Not to mention the difference in food/drinks price and weather I can count on.
These comparisons are so stupid.
Wtf is a “Lhara”?
That’s particularly cheap but not unbelievable to me that it could be real as an outlier if you were willing to compromise on flight times, days of the week and hotel location.
The bigger point is still true though that it’s definitely cheaper right now to travel abroad than to try and do a holiday at home, at least in my experience.
I understand its really expensive but is it because of demand. Are there hotel rooms lying empty because people won’t pay the price?
IHF begging for low vat rates during the pandemic because the hotels were struggling. With these prices vat should be trebled ( For hotels)
I’m visiting home in Belfast next month and it has some element of truth to it. I wanted to travel out of town for a week or so to bypass the 12th – it was more expensive take train to Dublin and stay in a hotel than it was to fly to France and book hotel. Not twice or three times the amount but does say something about the state of affairs
I fly to Munich every 2 months for work and that price seems normal to me
Ireland is a pure rip off in this regard. I don’t like doing staycations or holidays here because of it and it’s a shame. I haven’t seen anywhere near as much of the country as I’d like but why would I if I can go more exotic places for a similar or cheaper price?
Me and a 3 mates went to the Monaco GP and stayed for 7 nights up the coast in Antibes. Flights, Bus and accommodation cost us less than €250 total.
Scandalous the prices here.
Fuck Irish hotels, all the crying during covid of staycations, team Ireland etc and this is how they payback the public.
Next summer: “why is our tourism industry tanking?”
Obviously the demand is there to support those prices. If people stopped paying those prices, then the price will come down.
That’s including the government incentives put in for the hospitality sector after the Great Recession, including the lower rate of VAT for that industry and the various government initiatives such as the wild Atlantic Way and Irelands Ancient East.
I mean it’s just shocking, I’m guessing Germany being a bigger tourist destination might be part of the reason why the costs are lower for hotels over there but that’s only a piece in the puzzle and definitely not the whole jigsaw.
We in the north won’t even look to the south for stags or nights out anymore. Always a flight somewhere.to save money.
its called greed
Ireland Is like a New Jersey Mob vacation village! Was just home for a wedding, did hotels in Bray, Meath and Dublin all were a feckin scam. Add in the tiny piece of shit rental car we rented from the wankers at the Avis near Kilmainham for $197/day that screwed me on insurance and boy we had fun! Couple all this with the Tayo Park Que Expierience at the airport for 3 hours starting at 0500 and we have an awesome holiday!! In contrast 3 years ago we got 2 rooms, one for the kids and one for us, for 3 weeks at the Westgrove? in Clane and didnt even blink at the price. We rented 2 Nissan Rogues cause there was six of us and it was the same price as the US. I understand all the metrics of supply and demand and the Covid rebound with this pricing but if u knew how many euros Bord Failte blows on advertising and the milliion ads we see state side your just shooting yourself in the foot and tourist dollars and goodwill will dry up, I already am seeing bad sentimemt. The funny thing food and drink was normal pricing! We used to feel good going home, helping the economy, seeing Ireland grow but now total grifters….
Plus hospitality is still on a much lower VAT rate to help recover post covid business losses.
The hotels are fecking themselves with their greed. Terrible impression to give to guests in our country. Repeat business seems to be disregarded. I get energy costs have doubled, wages up maybe 5-8%. Some of these prices are up 1-2-300%. shortsighted
Flight is probably Wednesday morning at 6am or 9pm in the evening.
Hotel probably way out of the city.
Still better value.
But it’s not like you land Saturday afternoon and stay in a prime location for that price.
Have we tried slapping the greed out of people with a hurl?
People need to post links to these deals or shut up
1 night in a Killarney hotel with 2 interconnecting rooms recently cost my wife and I over 500 quid. We haven’t been abroad in nearly 4 years and sure as shit ain’t staycationing again if that’s all our money gets!
Anyone who pays those prices is either happy to be screwed or has too much money
I was looking for a cheap dublin hostel for a saturday night in august. There’s 8 person dorm beds going for €110 a night! Something is very wrong.
I did eventually find a place for €70 a night which is still extortionate
As someone visiting next month from the Us (prime season I know), you awesome folks are hitting Walt Disney level of pricing at this point. 😂
That is total bollocks, Munich is not a cheap city never has been and never will be.
Went camping last weekend. We had no set location and just followed the met eireann app to where we would get away with it and not be miserable.
Ended up outside liscannor kinda where the cliffs of moher are only baby cliffs. Done a bit of snorkeling and the visibility and sea life activity was amazing.
Fair enough the desiel to get me there was saucy. But we have such an amazing island to explore. Fuck hotels. I just couldn’t justify it unless it was a wedding or something.
We can’t have peasants coming over and considering moving here
‘member summer 2020 when it was all about “support local!”
Never bought into that rubbish. Look what you get for supporting local now.
Am German these prices don’t really add up, but if you compare pizzas for example you get a way stronger picture. In Germany a standard pizza costs around 6€ from an actual Italian pizza place, while I never paid less than 13-15€ during my time in Ireland and it was always a chain restaurant.
As an Irish lad in Germany over ten years, the locals are fucking dreadful. Just sayin’
Anti-competition laws
Last 5 years this sub has done nothing but gurn at any suggestion they build hotels in Dublin, now they’re gurning the hotels are too expensive due to shortages.
Some of youse will never be happy
Morocco 650 euro all inclusive for 2 of us, 10 nights!
My husband got a flight to Belgium for €60 (there was a cheaper one too for €40, but he didn’t want to get up that early) and a hotel for THREE nights for him AND his mate (twin room) for 290, for THREE nights. That’s 290 for both, not each. My fella doesn’t like shithole hostel type places, that would be a halfway decent hotel he would be choosing. We’re in county Dublin but to stay the night in the city because of a gig or work is now way too much. Collectively we’ve lived in the city centre for 35 years and we feel kicked out.
It’s not only the hotels, I am traveling home at Christmas this year, we need a 7 seater.
I got a quote for 13000 euro for a months rentals.
Link fir proof.
The girlfriends parents are off to a concert next month and are opting to drive because they cost to stay below in cork for that weekend is equal to paying for a standard holiday in Lanzarote… not only are these costs dangerous in regards to preventing Irish spending on local/country wide hotels but this has to have a negative effect on tourist trying to book a holiday.
130pp
I call bullshit on that
Go to Germany all the time. Flights usually 200+ return.
Hotels, if not a kip, 80 a night plus
I get that Ireland is incredibly expensive (we did the ‘staycations’ during lockdown) but where the hell do people find these deals? Assuming the flights are incredibly cheap (say 40 euro for two return) that’s 30 euro for a four star hotel. We have never been able to find a really nice hotel for under 100 euro on the continent (still much better value than Ireland, of course).
Last year, family of 5
4 nights in mayo hotel = 1 week in private villa in Lanzarote
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It ain’t a 4 star hotel. And it ain’t anywhere you want to see in Germany…
Twin room in Killarney was 45 euro in 2009. I have no idea how much does it go nowadays
Yes the Düsseldorf airport hotel on a Tuesday maybe. Sure Ireland is expensive but you’re not going to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt on that money
All the hotels are basically refugee centres now that’s why
We are a rip off for pretty much everything you can purchase here compared to other countries I don’t know why fools are blaming refugees and COVID lol
Having been doing staycations for the last few years I’m saving loads going abroad this year. 3 nights in Galway with a nice room €750, 9 days in Spain with a balcony facing out to the sea €450. Not to mention the difference in food/drinks price and weather I can count on.
These comparisons are so stupid.
Wtf is a “Lhara”?
That’s particularly cheap but not unbelievable to me that it could be real as an outlier if you were willing to compromise on flight times, days of the week and hotel location.
The bigger point is still true though that it’s definitely cheaper right now to travel abroad than to try and do a holiday at home, at least in my experience.
I understand its really expensive but is it because of demand. Are there hotel rooms lying empty because people won’t pay the price?
IHF begging for low vat rates during the pandemic because the hotels were struggling. With these prices vat should be trebled ( For hotels)
I’m visiting home in Belfast next month and it has some element of truth to it. I wanted to travel out of town for a week or so to bypass the 12th – it was more expensive take train to Dublin and stay in a hotel than it was to fly to France and book hotel. Not twice or three times the amount but does say something about the state of affairs
I fly to Munich every 2 months for work and that price seems normal to me
Ireland is a pure rip off in this regard. I don’t like doing staycations or holidays here because of it and it’s a shame. I haven’t seen anywhere near as much of the country as I’d like but why would I if I can go more exotic places for a similar or cheaper price?
Me and a 3 mates went to the Monaco GP and stayed for 7 nights up the coast in Antibes. Flights, Bus and accommodation cost us less than €250 total.
Scandalous the prices here.
Fuck Irish hotels, all the crying during covid of staycations, team Ireland etc and this is how they payback the public.
Next summer: “why is our tourism industry tanking?”
Obviously the demand is there to support those prices. If people stopped paying those prices, then the price will come down.
That’s including the government incentives put in for the hospitality sector after the Great Recession, including the lower rate of VAT for that industry and the various government initiatives such as the wild Atlantic Way and Irelands Ancient East.
I mean it’s just shocking, I’m guessing Germany being a bigger tourist destination might be part of the reason why the costs are lower for hotels over there but that’s only a piece in the puzzle and definitely not the whole jigsaw.
We in the north won’t even look to the south for stags or nights out anymore. Always a flight somewhere.to save money.
its called greed
Ireland Is like a New Jersey Mob vacation village! Was just home for a wedding, did hotels in Bray, Meath and Dublin all were a feckin scam. Add in the tiny piece of shit rental car we rented from the wankers at the Avis near Kilmainham for $197/day that screwed me on insurance and boy we had fun! Couple all this with the Tayo Park Que Expierience at the airport for 3 hours starting at 0500 and we have an awesome holiday!! In contrast 3 years ago we got 2 rooms, one for the kids and one for us, for 3 weeks at the Westgrove? in Clane and didnt even blink at the price. We rented 2 Nissan Rogues cause there was six of us and it was the same price as the US. I understand all the metrics of supply and demand and the Covid rebound with this pricing but if u knew how many euros Bord Failte blows on advertising and the milliion ads we see state side your just shooting yourself in the foot and tourist dollars and goodwill will dry up, I already am seeing bad sentimemt. The funny thing food and drink was normal pricing! We used to feel good going home, helping the economy, seeing Ireland grow but now total grifters….
Plus hospitality is still on a much lower VAT rate to help recover post covid business losses.
The hotels are fecking themselves with their greed. Terrible impression to give to guests in our country. Repeat business seems to be disregarded. I get energy costs have doubled, wages up maybe 5-8%. Some of these prices are up 1-2-300%. shortsighted
i think it was the radio i heard it on, but [Donegal TD Pearse Doherty said it was €200 cheaper](https://www.donegaldaily.com/2022/06/02/e200-cheaper-to-see-bruce-springsteen-in-rome-than-dublins-rip-off-circus-doherty/) to book a flight to Rome next May and see Bruce Springsteen in the circus maximus, than it is to travel to dublin, stay the night, see him in the RDS and go home the next morning.
Total rip off.
But that 130 to Germany can be misleading.
Flight is probably Wednesday morning at 6am or 9pm in the evening.
Hotel probably way out of the city.
Still better value.
But it’s not like you land Saturday afternoon and stay in a prime location for that price.
Have we tried slapping the greed out of people with a hurl?
People need to post links to these deals or shut up
1 night in a Killarney hotel with 2 interconnecting rooms recently cost my wife and I over 500 quid. We haven’t been abroad in nearly 4 years and sure as shit ain’t staycationing again if that’s all our money gets!
Anyone who pays those prices is either happy to be screwed or has too much money
I was looking for a cheap dublin hostel for a saturday night in august. There’s 8 person dorm beds going for €110 a night! Something is very wrong.
I did eventually find a place for €70 a night which is still extortionate
As someone visiting next month from the Us (prime season I know), you awesome folks are hitting Walt Disney level of pricing at this point. 😂
That is total bollocks, Munich is not a cheap city never has been and never will be.
Went camping last weekend. We had no set location and just followed the met eireann app to where we would get away with it and not be miserable.
Ended up outside liscannor kinda where the cliffs of moher are only baby cliffs. Done a bit of snorkeling and the visibility and sea life activity was amazing.
Fair enough the desiel to get me there was saucy. But we have such an amazing island to explore. Fuck hotels. I just couldn’t justify it unless it was a wedding or something.
We can’t have peasants coming over and considering moving here
‘member summer 2020 when it was all about “support local!”
Never bought into that rubbish. Look what you get for supporting local now.
Am German these prices don’t really add up, but if you compare pizzas for example you get a way stronger picture. In Germany a standard pizza costs around 6€ from an actual Italian pizza place, while I never paid less than 13-15€ during my time in Ireland and it was always a chain restaurant.
As an Irish lad in Germany over ten years, the locals are fucking dreadful. Just sayin’
Anti-competition laws
Last 5 years this sub has done nothing but gurn at any suggestion they build hotels in Dublin, now they’re gurning the hotels are too expensive due to shortages.
Some of youse will never be happy
Morocco 650 euro all inclusive for 2 of us, 10 nights!
My husband got a flight to Belgium for €60 (there was a cheaper one too for €40, but he didn’t want to get up that early) and a hotel for THREE nights for him AND his mate (twin room) for 290, for THREE nights. That’s 290 for both, not each. My fella doesn’t like shithole hostel type places, that would be a halfway decent hotel he would be choosing. We’re in county Dublin but to stay the night in the city because of a gig or work is now way too much. Collectively we’ve lived in the city centre for 35 years and we feel kicked out.
It’s not only the hotels, I am traveling home at Christmas this year, we need a 7 seater.
I got a quote for 13000 euro for a months rentals.
Link fir proof.
https://www.rentalcars.com/package/deal/eyJkcml2ZXJzQWdlIjozMCwiZHJvcE9mZkRhdGVUaW1lIjoiMjAyMy0wMS0yMFQxMDowMDowMCIsImRyb3BPZmZMb2NhdGlvbiI6IjE5Mzk2IiwiZHJvcE9mZkxvY2F0aW9uVHlwZSI6IkFJUlBPUlQiLCJwaWNrVXBEYXRlVGltZSI6IjIwMjItMTItMTdUMTA6MDA6MDAiLCJwaWNrVXBMb2NhdGlvbiI6IjE5Mzk2IiwicGlja1VwTG9jYXRpb25UeXBlIjoiQUlSUE9SVCIsInJlbnRhbER1cmF0aW9uSW5EYXlzIjozNCwic2VhcmNoTWV0YWRhdGEiOiJ7XCJwaWNrVXBMb2NhdGlvbk5hbWVcIjpcIkR1YmxpbiBBaXJwb3J0XCIsXCJkcm9wT2ZmTG9jYXRpb25OYW1lXCI6XCJEdWJsaW4gQWlycG9ydFwifSJ9/712433406
The girlfriends parents are off to a concert next month and are opting to drive because they cost to stay below in cork for that weekend is equal to paying for a standard holiday in Lanzarote… not only are these costs dangerous in regards to preventing Irish spending on local/country wide hotels but this has to have a negative effect on tourist trying to book a holiday.
130pp
I call bullshit on that
Go to Germany all the time. Flights usually 200+ return.
Hotels, if not a kip, 80 a night plus
I get that Ireland is incredibly expensive (we did the ‘staycations’ during lockdown) but where the hell do people find these deals? Assuming the flights are incredibly cheap (say 40 euro for two return) that’s 30 euro for a four star hotel. We have never been able to find a really nice hotel for under 100 euro on the continent (still much better value than Ireland, of course).
Last year, family of 5
4 nights in mayo hotel = 1 week in private villa in Lanzarote
It’s 5-6 times that in the US.