Dublin Airport Rip Off

Anon47

Travelled recently to France, 0.5 litre bottle of water - €2.50, same bottle of water in Lidl in France - 21 cents. What a rip off.

K4t

Transport costs, higher wages, higher taxes.......wait.....NO. Just no.

Simply greed for greed's sake. You should not have paid it, put up with the dehydration, and then bought 12 bottles of water when you got over there!

ScouseMouse

Anon47 wrote: »

Travelled recently to France, 0.5 litre bottle of water - €2.50, same bottle of water in Lidl in France - 21 cents. What a rip off.

Are you seriously comparing an airport with a discount store ?

bryaner

Your on the wrong road there lad!

Trampas

Was that the cheapest shop in the airport or just the one you went to?

Run_to_da_hills

superscouse wrote: »

Are you seriously comparing an airport with a discount store ?

Stanstead and Gatwick have a Booths outlet that charges acceptible rates for mineral water and sandwiches.

Dublin Airport dropped the prices of their sandwich / speciality coffee combo recently e5 which is very acceptible and is the same as what Insomnia and other coffee shops charge in the city ctr.

If you think bottled water is expensive now just wait until you have to buy it at Terminal 2. :eek:

jahalpin

You should try to buy a drink in Charles DeGaulle airport, it's around 4.50 for a Coke or water

As other posters have said, it's not fair to compare a no-frills discount store to a shop in a very high rent area ie Airport

In Aldi and Lidl you normally have to buy items in multiples, so you can't compare the cost of one item on it's own to a normal retail single unit.

You should check-out the Boots shop in the airport, for 3.99 you can get any sandwich\salad, any drink and any snack (valued at up to 1.80)

A New earth

Reasonable price in Boots in Dublin Airport too.

91011

airports WORLDWIDE charge excessive amounts for items such as bottled water & minerals - even agadir in morocco charges €3 for a bottle of water.

the airports themselves charge a hefty amount to operators for their pitches which has to be passed on.

next time either buy it as a package deal with a sandwich or buy it in boots

btw... why are you not comparing it with the airport in france that you were in? - Probably because it was even more expensive there!

Run_to_da_hills

91011 wrote: »

airports WORLDWIDE charge excessive amounts for items such as bottled water & minerals - even agadir in morocco charges €3 for a bottle of water.

the airports themselves charge a hefty amount to operators for their pitches which has to be passed on.

next time either buy it as a package deal with a sandwich or buy it in boots

btw... why are you not comparing it with the airport in france that you were in? - Probably because it was even more expensive there!

I must say I found Reus and Gerona airports very reasonable, for both, coffees, pastries and soft drinks. I was stuck there for a few hours and ddn't put a hole in my pocket.

Davidth88

OP , please compare like with like

What was the price of the water in the airport in France , I would guess higher than Dublin

CDG ( Paris ) is known for it's very high prices .

Jesus Wept

Pretty tame, I recall my brother paying the equivalent of £5 for a can of coke in Charles De Gaulle airport in 1994.

keithclancy

I nearly broke something laughing so hard at the first post in this thread


Airport is a rip off ... stop the press, captive audience and high rents = high prices.

Head The Wall

250ml bottles of water cost €10 in the nightclubs in Ibiza

Run_to_da_hills

Head The Wall wrote: »

250ml bottles of water cost €10 in the nightclubs in Ibiza

Theres a reason for this.

Venues cashing in on pill dropping.

Colonel Sanders

I paid 1.70 for a 500ml bottle last friday

Guy:Incognito

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Theres a reason for this.

Venues cashing in on pill dropping.

So thats ok but airport shops cashing in is suddenyl wrong?

APM

Frankfurt Hahn airport, bottle of water €2.75, airports are rip-offs...not just in Ireland

Mimikyu

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mickoneill30

Anon47 wrote: »

Travelled recently to France, 0.5 litre bottle of water - €2.50, same bottle of water in Lidl in France - 21 cents. What a rip off.

That's nothing. I got 2 litres from my tap at home for freeeeeeee.
Lidls charging 21c for .5 l of the same stuff. Ripoff.

/sarcasm off.

Comparing an airport shop to one of the cheaper supermarkets is just daft. If Lidl had a shop in the airport it'd be a bit fairer.

nc6000

Taking liquids off everyone before the security check to then rip them off on the other side when they go to replace them is the real problem there.

Sonz

APM wrote: »

Frankfurt Hahn airport, bottle of water €2.75, airports are rip-offs...not just in Ireland

Was just gonna say Germany as well, was in dusseldorf airport in march, Prices were crazy.

rubadub

I really hope this thread is a wind up

jahalpin wrote: »

You should try to buy a drink in Charles DeGaulle airport, it's around 4.50 for a Coke or water

The-Rigger wrote: »

I recall my brother paying the equivalent of £5 for a can of coke in Charles De Gaulle airport in 1994.

Charles De Gaulle really was astonishing, I thought Norway was expensive but not a patch on De Gaulle, I think it was €5.50 or €7.50 for a 500ml coke when I was there about 5 years ago. This was not in a cafe section or anything either, just a newsagent type place. I had my expenses paid but no way I would buy that, the accounts dept would have thought I fiddled the receipts!

Hair Bear

I was in an airport, Alicante-Spain, last December and purchased a bottle of water for €4.50. I commented to the seller on the outrageous price and he said he was paid €2.00 an hour! So it wasn't for the high wages!:(

ScouseMouse

Hair Bear wrote: »

I was in an airport, Alicante-Spain, last December and purchased a bottle of water for €4.50. I commented to the seller on the outrageous price and he said he was paid €2.00 an hour! So it wasn't for the high wages!:(

HOLY SHEET !!!:eek::eek::eek:

CantGetNoSleep

This is a case for Joe Duffy I think

Hair Bear

Yea, Joe would probably get something going. Whoever started this though should pursue it as he/she made the most recent purchase!:rolleyes:

Hair Bear

:(To NC 6000
Yes I totally agree...that is the source of the problem. You get a good deal and then its taken off you and you have to purchase more after checkin BUT at double or treble the price.

Boots however is reasonably priced!

!MAVERICK!

DAA parking is a complete rip-off, Parked to pick up auntie from New York at 4.00 AM (when there is F**** all business) 7.40 for around an hour.

91011

!MAVERICK! wrote: »

DAA parking is a complete rip-off, Parked to pick up auntie from New York at 4.00 AM (when there is F**** all business) 7.40 for around an hour.

My guess is the charge was €3.70 per hour or part thereof.

In heathrow it would have been £6.30 (€7.70) for just over an hour and £8 (€9.80) if it was 1hour 31 minutes.

In stansted it would have been £8 (€9.80) for just over an hour.
In Belfast its £6.60 (€8)

Short-term carparking in most airports are charged at a premium.

Hair Bear

to 91011

Totally agree - but is still a rip off as you are a captive consumer!
Rgds