{"id":20294,"date":"2025-08-24T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20294\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:47:14","slug":"dublin-hotel-prices-drive-gig-goers-to-take-the-train-home-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20294\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin hotel prices drive gig-goers to take the train home instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann operates additional services for Robbie Williams show and college football match as price of a double room hit \u20ac650 a night\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oasis fans in Dublin for last weekend's gigs at Croke Park. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fffc7457-7c15-4a30-8dbd-a42b7f8d705b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Oasis fans in Dublin for last weekend&#8217;s gigs at Croke Park. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Visitors who go to Dublin for big events are hopping on the train back home instead of paying \u201cextortionate rates\u201d for hotel rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As Robbie Williams played in Croke Park last night and thousands of American football fans descended on the capital, prices had shot sky-high again, with 95pc occupancy in Dublin by Friday, one booking site showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann operates additional services for Robbie Williams show and college football match as price of a double&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2442,13425,79,1007,18,553,17640,19,17,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-20294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aer-lingus","9":"tag-aviva-stadium","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-croke-park","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fine-gael","14":"tag-iarnrod-eireann-irish-rail","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-oasis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}