Went to the Cliffs of Moher a few years ago. Paid a fiver into the carpark for one car. We carpooled today for the good of the planet. Now it’s €12 per head. €60! Turned the car around. This country has no shame. Moher money Moher problems

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  2. The trick is to let your passangers out of the car half a km down the road and let them walk up, as far as I know they only charge you in the car park and don’t take tickets.

    Also 2km past the cliffs is a brilliant walkway with a better view for free.

  4. We stayed in lisdoonvarna and carpooled to the cliffs. I pretended to take a wrong turn and dumped everyone in the busses park. I got hit with the fee and the rest of them walked in with a french tour group…

  5. I’m so old I remember when it was free.

    But of course I didn’t get the full “Moher Magic Experience”. Just used my eyes instead.

  8. If it’s just a car park then charging €12.00 per head is some serious scumbag behaviour.

    Is it not perhaps for the visitor centre itself or something?

  9. The problem is that Yanks are used to paying such exorbitant fees. Drive to any national park in the States and they’ll hit you with a 35 -70 dollar fee to get in.

    So rental cars full of yanks probably expect the charge.

  11. Top tip for the cliffs. Go 30 minutes before closing time. The staff at the ticket desk cash out around then and have to walk up to the main building.

    The cliffs are free. The parking costs. But after hours the barrier is open and you can drive in for free. Sunsets there are amazing! Nice and quiet too.

  13. The giants causeway started charging £10 for the carpark and another fee for the visitor centre. The causeway is free and you can park in the the bar beside it for free if you buy something.

    I Hate being ripped off.

  18. I’ve never been charged at the cliffs, although I don’t go at peak times. Can you go there outside of opening hours? Once the staff go home they’ve no way of charging you and it’s bright up until 22:30.

  19. I think we are seriously over estimating Americans love for the old country as even so far this year tourism seems to be way down everywhere like what is there to actually see that doesn’t cost money!

  20. What I find most aggravating is that you can’t take dogs on the coastal path (fine, no problem with that it’s farmers land I understand why they don’t want random dogs about). But The website for the cliffs makes it out like it’s completely dog friendly with no mention of the path not being dog friendly. So essentially you have to either pay to park or park somewhere else and walk along the road with your dog to get there.

  23. Ridiculous. Just charge per car and avoid all the arguments and hassle. Truly the worst system ever

  24. If anyone goes there park in a way that takes up as many spaces as you can. If they say anything just say you paied per head not per spot.

  27. It’s robbery. Beautiful place but a lot of it you’re walking in muck and dirt. You’d think with the amount of money they’re now asking for that they could at least pave the walking path some way or other.

  28. If you look up “Cliffs of Moher Liscannor walk” on google maps there is a car park I use there every time I go. It’s €2 and then a 5-10 min walk to the cliffs and there’s almost no people around. The walk then along the cliffs is lovely and doesn’t have any walls or fences etc. so would highly recommend!

  29. Powerscourt waterfall is the same. Fucking criminal. For a natural formation! And who the fuck wants or needs an interpretive centre? I want to see the fucking cliffs and that’s it.

    The last time I went I parked up on the double yellows and went down with the girlfriend. Spent about twenty minutes there, and came back to a wee slip of paper under the wiper blade. I brought my Scottish reg car, so I was fine, they just wanted to put the fear into me.

    Cunts.

  32. National Trust pull similar shite up north for various attractions. All are free to go to see the actual natural wonder but need to pay for parking and visitor centre. We just park elsewhere and walk in usually.

  33. Go to Doolin and get the cliff ferry tour. Prob around the same price and a million times better than the usual sight of the cliffs. Much more exciting experience and worth the money.

  36. Paid a fiver to walk around the bottom of a lighthouse in Donegal…. Basically a couple of hundred yards closer to it than the public road.

  39. A few years ago for my Grandmother’s birthday, my entire extended family had a long weekend and it ended with a short visit of the Moher. There were probably about 15 of us, maybe 20 including kids. One car went in because we’d heard of ‘parking charges’, while the rest of our group went off to find a layby and just walk up.

    Shocked by the costs, Dad begins to blagg;

    >*points to us kids in the car, aged 16-12* ‘They’re all under 10’
    >
    >*points to Granny* ‘Pensioner’
    >
    >*points to slightly older sibling* ‘Pensioner’
    >
    >’I’m an Adult’ *drops down €10*
    >
    >’And he’s disabled’ *points to my older cousin from England, not disabled*

    I think the poor person at the kiosk just let us all in after that. Didn’t go to the visitor center since we weren’t remotely interested.

  40. Great advise here from people.
    Another helpful tip is to drive the car off the cliff itself and experience it all in 4D for free

  41. I Went a few years ago with a car full of friends. I got to the carpark and there was a queue of cars infront and saw the sign about the charge per head. I told the lads to get out of the car and I pulled up to the ticket booth and the woman tried to change me for the lads who got out. I said they were hitchhikers and I gave then a lift because the road was dangerous for walkers. She gave me a look of disgust but couldn’t prove I knew the lads and went on about not being allowed in the visitor center. I then parked the car and immediately joined the lads in full view of the woman.

  42. If it was a castle of something I’d understand the upkeep or conservation. It’s a natural site. That’s so scummy.

  43. Parking per head. Because obviously a car with five people in it takes up five times the space of a car with one person in it.

    Genius.

  48. I am foreigner and went I first visited the cliffs and had to pay for it it was so weird
    Like guys you didn’t build them, there is no need to charge for ir

  50. park in doolin. walk up to the cliffs along the coast. its a fantastic hike,

    12 per head!! starving fuckers. irish people should be allowed in for nothing..

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