Pub prices

arch staunton

4.50 for a pint of Heinkein In Kilkenny last Thursday night ,no wonder that pub was empty.It is 3.80 in my local for the same drink. :eek:

Creamy Goodness

did you buy one? if so that's the reason for the price. publicans will charge exactly what they can get away with. people buying at that price justifies their decision.

PCPhoto

try drinking in Dublin sometime ... prices have been above €5 per pint in most places for years.

if you paid it - then you are accepting the price.... if you consider it too expensive - walk away...goto another pub....and another pub...or just goto an off licence or supermarket and get some drinks to have at home.

dabestman1

most pints in carlow are 4.45-4.55

NoseyMike2010

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

NoseyMike2010

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

steve9859

How about this: €8.85 for a whisky (single) and coke in Oliver St John Gogarty in temple bar. The can of coke was €3!!! How can anyone justify that. Funnily enough we left after 1 drink!

NoseyMike2010

****tt. Thats madness. Temple Bar must be a ghost town!

Creamy Goodness

NoseyMike2010 wrote: »

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

As far as I'm aware, 'happy' promotions such as 'happy hour' and 'happy *day of week*' are illegal in Ireland.

snubbleste

rip-off, n.
An act of stealing, a theft; (hence) a fraud, a swindle; (more generally) any instance of esp. financial exploitation.

Max Power1

free market, not a rip off.

jack presley

I'd consider €4.50 for a pint quite reasonable.

arch staunton

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

did you buy one? if so that's the reason for the price. publicans will charge exactly what they can get away with. people buying at that price justifies their decision.

Yes I did buy one but one only,and I agree as long as we keep buying it they will keep charging those prices.

But surely 4.50- 5.00 are celtic tiger prices as far as i can see most thing have come down in price except Drink in pubs.

Ghandee

NoseyMike2010 wrote: »

Thats why we don't get tourists and stag party's coming to Ireland much anymore .... its toooooooooo expensive. There are no Happy Hours. There are no promotions. The UK is soooooooooo much cheaper to go out. You even get 24 bottles of Bulmers in Tesco for £20. Thats a deal.

availed of this deal myself at the weekend.
Just be aware though, in the north (and the uk) Bulmers is not the same as the Bulmers we have in Ireland, and the UK Bulmers its muck!

Anyone heading North, it is Magners your looking out for. Magners is repackaged (Irish) Bulmers.

24 x PINT bottles of Bulmers (apple or pear) for twenty quid, now that is a deal!

goat2

steve9859 wrote: »

How about this: €8.85 for a whisky (single) and coke in Oliver St John Gogarty in temple bar. The can of coke was €3!!! How can anyone justify that. Funnily enough we left after 1 drink!

how can they justify that pricing, would rather stay at home than spend that kind of money, is there a ceiling on the prices they can charge

rivers

Went into Fitzsimmons last monday night for a drink as it was practically the only place with people, asked the barman price for a pint/bottle - 6.05:eek:
We didnt stay for even one. ridiculous, can't believe people would pay that...

ended up in the Czech inn (?) across from the turks head. place isnt good but at least the drink prices were reasonable...

NoseyMike2010

I really don't know how pubs are surviving in Ireland with these bar prices!!!!!!!!!!!

rubadub

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

As far as I'm aware, 'happy' promotions such as 'happy hour' and 'happy *day of week*' are illegal in Ireland.

You can have a "happy day", the actual law is that you can not lower the price upon opening. So many pubs might open at 5pm and put up prices at 7pm, this is like bars still allowed put up the price at 11.30 to cover late pub licence fees and "out of hour wages".

It is also open to loopholes, like they could have a cheap vodka that mysteriously only comes into stock at 7pm and runs out at 8pm each day.

Diceys (on harcourt street) is free in if you are there early enough, not sure of the time, maybe 8. It is €2 on tuesday, 3-wednesday, 3.50-thursday and 4 on fridays (last time I was in anyway which is maybe a month ago). This is for pints (even paulaner) and bottles, and on paricular days it is other things too, like jager bombs, or shots. Also burgers & curry chips or similar are the same price as the drinks on those days -dunno how they do it, its the only time I ever considered smuggling drink OUT of a pub!

I don't particularly like the place but its fine for a quick few at that price.

Guy:Incognito

Meh. €5 (on special down from €5.80) for 500ml of local cider in Clermont last week.

thesandeman

I think prices are dropping unless you want to be seen in a 'cool' pub. You can have a damm good Pub Crawl in Galway now for less than 30euro.
Was in Dublin last week and the most I paid for a pint was 3.80 (except for The Olympia which was 4.90 for a plastic Guinness but that a different scenario).

hdowney

all the pubs in my area charge 4.50 for a pint of bulmers! so can't even go to another pub instead. my local does a 3pints for a tenner offer weekdays often though which is quite good.

keithclancy

Was out in Amsterdam on Saturday, 6.00 for a 380ml glass of beer .. ffs

If I was less tipsy and gave a sh*te I would have went elsewhere.

wmpdd3

A brown bar?

mcwhirter

hdowney wrote: »

all the pubs in my area charge 4.50 for a pint of bulmers! so can't even go to another pub instead. my local does a 3pints for a tenner offer weekdays often though which is quite good.

3 for a tenner, not bad, where is that, is he independent?

hdowney

mcwhirter wrote: »

3 for a tenner, not bad, where is that, is he independent?

i haven't d foggiest if he is an indo - how do i tell!!!!

the leitrim in wicklow town

kevin99

Totally agree. I have given up drinking in Dublin city centre. A total ripoff and the publicans try to justify their exorbitant prices for a pint or short by quoting third party costs all the time. Yes commercial rates are too expensive and insurance costs are always on the up.
But the publicans increased their margins by 150% during the Celtic Tiger years and now they are paying a very heavy and expensive price for their selfishness.
I remember complaining to a barman in a pub off Grafton St about the price of the pint and he told me to go somewhere else if I didn't want to pay his prices, as 'there are plenty of people who will pay it'.
That was 2007. I looked into that pub on a Saturday evening the other week and it was empty. One fellow reading the paper and another watching football.
Oh yes a big TV plasma screen had been added since I was last there, but no customers to watch it.

PCPhoto wrote: »

try drinking in Dublin sometime ... prices have been above €5 per pint in most places for years.

if you paid it - then you are accepting the price.... if you consider it too expensive - walk away...goto another pub....and another pub...or just goto an off licence or supermarket and get some drinks to have at home.

kevin99

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

hdowney wrote: »

all the pubs in my area charge 4.50 for a pint of bulmers! so can't even go to another pub instead. my local does a 3pints for a tenner offer weekdays often though which is quite good.

Melion

There are some deals to be had in Shannon. One pub does €3 pints on a Friday, another does it on Saturday and another on Sunday. Just a shame id never drink in any of them so its €4.30 for a pint where i do drink

kevin99

kevin99 wrote: »

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

Eh no. It's called an offer.

:rolleyes:

hdowney

yea i mean i go in and order a pint. barman asks do i want 3for10. i think about it. if i am gonna drink three then yea deffo. if i only went in for 1, then no. i only pay for one. so i don't see the problem

keithclancy

kevin99 wrote: »

That's called a 'cartel'. So the publican is encouraging you to drink more than, perhaps, you want to drink during the week by introducing a special offer of three pints or a tenner.
Walk away,.

Man you must get really upset in Tesco