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Oktoberfest Dublin

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    #32
    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Jaziz! There's about 1,000 people queueing around 2 sides of George's Dock to get into the Oktoberfest at the mo!!:eek:

    At least you can get a beer & a sausage while you queue I suppose!


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    #33
    Chris_5339762
    Registered Users Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    Spent an hour in the pissing rain the other day to get in but by god it was worth it. Absolutely savage time and now going to the real thing in Munich next year.

    Anyone know the "Die Kruger" or whatever it was song they were playing?


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    #34
    Oliver1985
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    10 days just is not enough!! :(


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    #35
    brettharting
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    It sounds like great fun. I have never been but was just reading about it there on festivals.ie
    http://festivals.ie/show/218/food-and-drink/oktoberfest-dublin

    There is a very good video there worth watching. Sorry I don't know how to embed it in this comment.


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    #36
    Boulevardier
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    An Oktoberfest in September - only in Ireland??


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    #37
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Boulevardier wrote: »
    An Oktoberfest in September - only in Ireland??

    Words cannot describe your fail.
    Oktoberfest is a 16-day festival held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, running from late September to the first weekend in October.


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    #38
    Oscorp
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    Boulevardier wrote: »
    An Oktoberfest in September - only in Ireland??

    Oktoberfest always begins in mid-late September, even in Germany.


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    #39
    amdublin
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    Boulevardier wrote: »
    An Oktoberfest in September - only in Ireland??

    No. Germany too funnily enough.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest


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    #40
    Slunk
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    Ouch! :p

    Thinking of going to this Friday evening. Seems you need a wristband past 10pm which costs 12 euro ,five euro of which goes towards food to soak up the beer. Makes sense.


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    #41
    Jello
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    Just wondering were many people down over the past couple of days, what were the queues like?


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    #42
    handsomecake
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    ****ing manic. Couldn't get near the place.


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    #43
    Eggonyerface
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Eggonyerface


    Arrived about half four yesterday and could just stroll down the platform and into the tent without queuing once. Best advice is go early


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    #44
    suicide_circus
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    It was appalling last year. So over priced. Went there with some Germans, they couldn't believe the limited selection of booze or the prices.


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    #45
    Rhand
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Rhand


    Went there thursday night around 20h, no queue at all. Could go in no problems. Friday evening was different, a very long queue and the stewards left only a handful of people in every few minutes. Couldn't be arsed waiting so long.

    Wristbands are 6€, and you receive a 5€ food voucher for it.
    1 liter glasses of Erdinger/Fischers Hell are 10€ + 5€ warranty for the first glass.
    A pint is 6€.


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    #46
    UDP
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    Was there on Saturday. Prices gone up again for beer this year. 6 euro for a pint of erdinger is ridiculus. Wrist bands are 6 euro which have to be purchased after 10pm due to irish licensing laws in an attempt to make you eat something. Too expensive to have an enjoyable night there especially when used to paying 2-3 euro for beer or food in Germany.


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    #47
    Jello
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    Was there last night, massive queues to get in and even more queues to buy a drink. We were only there for a while so just got a couple of wristbands between a few of us so we all didn't have to pay €6 (handy if those people don't mind getting the drinks).
    UDP wrote: »
    Wrist bands are 6 euro which have to be purchased after 10pm due to irish licensing laws in an attempt to make you eat something.
    I noticed this on their website/facebook. I've never heard of any Irish licensing laws that require me to pay €6 to eat something so I can enjoy a few drinks, stupid really. I had just stuffed my face before heading in.


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    #48
    Barna77
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    I'm still waiting for some bright brain in the organisation to use the whole surface in the dock, instead of the tiny platform surrounded by water. Just dry it up! Maybe next year they'll know how to use all that space... :rolleyes:


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    #49
    delta_bravo
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    Barna77 wrote: »
    I'm still waiting for some bright brain in the organisation to use the whole surface in the dock, instead of the tiny platform surrounded by water. Just dry it up! Maybe next year they'll know how to use all that space... :rolleyes:

    Well it does supply that other little square near the vaults and you are forgetting the additional cost and putrid smell that this would cause


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    #50
    UDP
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    Barna77 wrote: »
    I'm still waiting for some bright brain in the organisation to use the whole surface in the dock, instead of the tiny platform surrounded by water. Just dry it up! Maybe next year they'll know how to use all that space... :rolleyes:
    Apparently it costs an absolute fortune to make it bigger so they don't bother.


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    #51
    charlietheminxx
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    Went last night, no queues, got a table grand! Haha, kinda like the feeling of drinking from the big tankard :)

    The food all looked epic too, got myself a chocolate crepe! Gonna go back tomorrow night before a gig, have a beer and get some of that haribo pick and mix, looked good.... You'd be broke afterwards though.


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