They are absolutely taking the piss, we can’t afford to holiday here, I really can’t see how people take flights and rent cars or pay tourism companies for coach tours.
All that shite about being in it together and staycations along with tax breaks and incentives during covid was quickly forgotten.
What da fook is a sticky wicket? Montrose showing its west Brit orientation again.
Whatever about the reduced VAT for hospitality, it should be removed from hotel room and other accommodation immediately.
They clearly don’t need the help.
Well colour me surprised…
Last week I booked a trip for two from Dublin to Lisbon for 3 nights in late Aug. £395 each with direct flights and a fairly nice looking 4* hotel. The cheapest combo was about £215pp.
Just checked the reverse of the trip and it was £501 each with direct flights to Dublin and 3 nights in the Gresham. Cheapest option was £246. Not too bad all things considered…
Why are RTE using a cricket analogy? Does anyone in Ireland understand what a sticky wicket means
A hotelier on the radio last week let slip the truth. Hotels couldn’t make money for 2 years with lockdown, now they are making that money back one way or another. It’s simple as that. Even though tax payers buoyed up the industry, they are getting screwed now with prices. I was in Venice and Paris in the last 2 months. Neither city were price gouging even though it’s perceived to be more expensive. 50€ in France and 60€ per night in Italy.
I’m going to get completely downvoted but I get so mad reading these headlines and comments because it’s not all hotels!
It’s mainly in Dublin and as someone who doesn’t work in the industry but my family own a hotel in a rural touristy place I think a lot of people here don’t understand the industry.
Most hotels outside of Dublin have not been happy with the IHF’s complete lack to admit that some capital hotels are taking the piss.
A comment here said hotels forgot about all the help they got, if people actually remember covid hit in March 2020. In the rural hotel business, you basically try not to make a loss for January and February until Patrick’s day and then the season should cover those months. They didn’t get that, a few grants and some payments for staff did not cut that. Most made a loss that year just hoping it wasn’t enough to take them down.
Really the staffing issues started in 2021 with people switching out of the industry in particular to 9-5 jobs as well as some foreign workers heading home. I wouldn’t blame them, I spent my teenage and college years working in a kitchen it’s a very tough job. So you have to pay staff more but I personally know my parents also give several staff rent free accommodation. A lot of there staff have worked there for 20 plus years so are salaried employees unusual in the industry if you are not management. The hotel in the village over has always offered free accommodation (not on site, so actual houses) to all staff who would want it. A Dutch group staying at the hotel got stung by the hire car fiasco so I drove out to Dublin airport and gave them my car for the week at my parents request. They have been picking people up at the airport out of their own pocket.
My brother is the manager and they can’t get a night-porter so he does it half the week as well as still being the general manager.
Don’t get me started on people comparing prices from here to Spain or Portugal which are of course cheaper, look at the difference in minimum wages between here and there it’s huge. The cost of insurance, you cannot get hotel insurance from an Irish company anymore, so one international one offers it for non chain or group hotels and having a monopoly they charge a small fortune. Food has increased in price by 15% and if you do seafood like my families place certain things like crab has gone by about 30% in price! Plus you can still buy a bottle of spirits for €22 odd in the shops but look at the duties on it hospitality, of course going over there would be cheaper. I personally think there should be different vat rates for rural and city hotels. Not all people who have hotels are monsters! I was talking to my dad last night who set up a worker in the hotel with a gp and then drove him for his appointment and back which is a 50 minute round trip and treated him for lunch as he doesn’t drive and is new to the country. I would just love a bit of nuance to the conversation. Rant over
Got the missus tickets for Bruce Springsteen next May. Was planning on making a weekend of it until I was quoted up on €1000 for 2 nights.
Airport bus back up north is now on the cards because, as much as a wee weekend away would be nice. It’s not worth that.
For comparison, I stayed at the Gibson last month after a gig and had booked it a similar time in advance, it was €150 a night for a twin.
People are worse, for paying king’s ransom for a view through a rain soaked window.
Long-term, they are shooting themselves in the foot with the prices on offer, especially in Dublin.
We got a decent break in Mayo in breaffy house
2 nights bed and breakfast for 320e 2 adults and 3 kids.
We wouldn’t be able to justify a weeks holiday in ireland for all of us . We looked at a cottage in Kerry for a week in august late close to when schools start back and they wanted 1800e for just the cottage.
Madness
1800 would be nearly cover the cost of a chalet in Europe’s in salou and flights for a week for christ sake.
I know the hotels are trying to make some money back and I know they are struggling but ita madness
The owners will be crying to the government in a year about how the pandemic is “bleedin ’em dry” and they need a bailout. Cunts, the whole lot of em.
> According to Fáilte Ireland, the country has fared reasonably well in this regard in recent years, with 8% of tourists reporting they got poor value for money and 80% saying they experienced good value.
8%? But thats like a million people a year having a bad experience isn’t it?
It is a joke. We get they were closed but that is not the fault of the public. The public tried to do staycations and even those were starting to take the piss.
They will whinge to the government soon enough about a greater need for more tax relief.
My advice, is take your money elsewhere. If they wanna rip people off then well and good. They will have to drop prices when no one comes back.
We live in west Clare and noticed all the prices in restaurants and hotels going up as of two weeks ago. Pint in nearby crappy 3 star hotel is €6.50. Dublin prices. We would be regular visitors if it was decently priced but we won’t be arsed now.
Prices in dublin are taking the piss right now. I booked a hotel for a gig in September. Cheapest I could get in the city centre was €245 for 1 night room only. I work for the company that owns that hotel and that was the price with my employee discount. Can only imagine how much it would have cost if I didn’t work for them
I had a couple of gigs I was planning to go to in Dublin over the last couple of weeks. Cancelled plans each time after hotel prices (thankfully before picking up tickets). So the band, venue, local pub, local food places (and all the suppliers in the chain) all lost out because hotels were rippping the piss on the price of a place to pass out for a few hours after the gig. IDGAF about how luxurious a place is, I’m not spending a weeks wages on a couple of nights sleep in a city I am only in for an event lasting only a couple of hours.
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They are absolutely taking the piss, we can’t afford to holiday here, I really can’t see how people take flights and rent cars or pay tourism companies for coach tours.
All that shite about being in it together and staycations along with tax breaks and incentives during covid was quickly forgotten.
What da fook is a sticky wicket? Montrose showing its west Brit orientation again.
Whatever about the reduced VAT for hospitality, it should be removed from hotel room and other accommodation immediately.
They clearly don’t need the help.
Well colour me surprised…
Last week I booked a trip for two from Dublin to Lisbon for 3 nights in late Aug. £395 each with direct flights and a fairly nice looking 4* hotel. The cheapest combo was about £215pp.
Just checked the reverse of the trip and it was £501 each with direct flights to Dublin and 3 nights in the Gresham. Cheapest option was £246. Not too bad all things considered…
Why are RTE using a cricket analogy? Does anyone in Ireland understand what a sticky wicket means
A hotelier on the radio last week let slip the truth. Hotels couldn’t make money for 2 years with lockdown, now they are making that money back one way or another. It’s simple as that. Even though tax payers buoyed up the industry, they are getting screwed now with prices. I was in Venice and Paris in the last 2 months. Neither city were price gouging even though it’s perceived to be more expensive. 50€ in France and 60€ per night in Italy.
I’m going to get completely downvoted but I get so mad reading these headlines and comments because it’s not all hotels!
It’s mainly in Dublin and as someone who doesn’t work in the industry but my family own a hotel in a rural touristy place I think a lot of people here don’t understand the industry.
Most hotels outside of Dublin have not been happy with the IHF’s complete lack to admit that some capital hotels are taking the piss.
A comment here said hotels forgot about all the help they got, if people actually remember covid hit in March 2020. In the rural hotel business, you basically try not to make a loss for January and February until Patrick’s day and then the season should cover those months. They didn’t get that, a few grants and some payments for staff did not cut that. Most made a loss that year just hoping it wasn’t enough to take them down.
Really the staffing issues started in 2021 with people switching out of the industry in particular to 9-5 jobs as well as some foreign workers heading home. I wouldn’t blame them, I spent my teenage and college years working in a kitchen it’s a very tough job. So you have to pay staff more but I personally know my parents also give several staff rent free accommodation. A lot of there staff have worked there for 20 plus years so are salaried employees unusual in the industry if you are not management. The hotel in the village over has always offered free accommodation (not on site, so actual houses) to all staff who would want it. A Dutch group staying at the hotel got stung by the hire car fiasco so I drove out to Dublin airport and gave them my car for the week at my parents request. They have been picking people up at the airport out of their own pocket.
My brother is the manager and they can’t get a night-porter so he does it half the week as well as still being the general manager.
Don’t get me started on people comparing prices from here to Spain or Portugal which are of course cheaper, look at the difference in minimum wages between here and there it’s huge. The cost of insurance, you cannot get hotel insurance from an Irish company anymore, so one international one offers it for non chain or group hotels and having a monopoly they charge a small fortune. Food has increased in price by 15% and if you do seafood like my families place certain things like crab has gone by about 30% in price! Plus you can still buy a bottle of spirits for €22 odd in the shops but look at the duties on it hospitality, of course going over there would be cheaper. I personally think there should be different vat rates for rural and city hotels. Not all people who have hotels are monsters! I was talking to my dad last night who set up a worker in the hotel with a gp and then drove him for his appointment and back which is a 50 minute round trip and treated him for lunch as he doesn’t drive and is new to the country. I would just love a bit of nuance to the conversation. Rant over
Got the missus tickets for Bruce Springsteen next May. Was planning on making a weekend of it until I was quoted up on €1000 for 2 nights.
Airport bus back up north is now on the cards because, as much as a wee weekend away would be nice. It’s not worth that.
For comparison, I stayed at the Gibson last month after a gig and had booked it a similar time in advance, it was €150 a night for a twin.
People are worse, for paying king’s ransom for a view through a rain soaked window.
Long-term, they are shooting themselves in the foot with the prices on offer, especially in Dublin.
We got a decent break in Mayo in breaffy house
2 nights bed and breakfast for 320e 2 adults and 3 kids.
We wouldn’t be able to justify a weeks holiday in ireland for all of us . We looked at a cottage in Kerry for a week in august late close to when schools start back and they wanted 1800e for just the cottage.
Madness
1800 would be nearly cover the cost of a chalet in Europe’s in salou and flights for a week for christ sake.
I know the hotels are trying to make some money back and I know they are struggling but ita madness
The owners will be crying to the government in a year about how the pandemic is “bleedin ’em dry” and they need a bailout. Cunts, the whole lot of em.
> According to Fáilte Ireland, the country has fared reasonably well in this regard in recent years, with 8% of tourists reporting they got poor value for money and 80% saying they experienced good value.
8%? But thats like a million people a year having a bad experience isn’t it?
It is a joke. We get they were closed but that is not the fault of the public. The public tried to do staycations and even those were starting to take the piss.
They will whinge to the government soon enough about a greater need for more tax relief.
My advice, is take your money elsewhere. If they wanna rip people off then well and good. They will have to drop prices when no one comes back.
We live in west Clare and noticed all the prices in restaurants and hotels going up as of two weeks ago. Pint in nearby crappy 3 star hotel is €6.50. Dublin prices. We would be regular visitors if it was decently priced but we won’t be arsed now.
Prices in dublin are taking the piss right now. I booked a hotel for a gig in September. Cheapest I could get in the city centre was €245 for 1 night room only. I work for the company that owns that hotel and that was the price with my employee discount. Can only imagine how much it would have cost if I didn’t work for them
I had a couple of gigs I was planning to go to in Dublin over the last couple of weeks. Cancelled plans each time after hotel prices (thankfully before picking up tickets). So the band, venue, local pub, local food places (and all the suppliers in the chain) all lost out because hotels were rippping the piss on the price of a place to pass out for a few hours after the gig. IDGAF about how luxurious a place is, I’m not spending a weeks wages on a couple of nights sleep in a city I am only in for an event lasting only a couple of hours.