Christmas market

ben.schlomo

ProudDUB wrote: »

Is there a week day that is best/worst to visit the market? Was thinking of heading there next Monday or Wednesday, but don't want to get there & find it's the one day a week, that the traders take a half day off or something.

Would prefer to get the Expressway bus there, but don't want to sit in city traffic for ages, both going & coming. Any thoughts on getting the bus versus the train?

Ta.

If youre arriving around lunchtime or a little earlier then there wont be any issue with traffic.

Mrs OBumble

Bus is pretty much always cheaper and faster than the train.

Bus Éireann stop at the same place as the train (2 mins walk from the market). Other companies stop 2 minutes walk up the road.

Worst market ever.

Corndog dude wasn't there when I popped in. So disappointed.

biko

The train will take you into city centre, 2 mins walk from market.
If you have the dosh, take the train.

ben.schlomo

Deleted User wrote: »

Worst market ever.

Corndog dude wasn't there when I popped in. So disappointed.

Was mentioned here a few pages back that he isnt doing this year.

biko

Apparently one corndog a market does make

bigpink

Wonder why he didnt do it.always saw it mentioned here as a popular stall

Subcomandante Marcos

Price for a pitch is insane.

bigpink

How much?

sammyjo90

Can be up to 10 grand,
Thats without VAT and electricity

Subcomandante Marcos

Something like 15k for the month.

gordongekko

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Can be up to 10 grand,
Thats without VAT and electricity

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Something like 15k for the month.

Let's say 12500 to save an argument

sammyjo90

gordongekko wrote: »

Let's say 12500 to save an argument

Damn..was looking forward to an argument :pac:

Surfacezebra

The original market was run by Market place Europe who run markets all over the UK and Northern Ireland.They ran into alot of problems with the city council trying to rip them off and the Galway city business association.They said they would never do business in the Republic again after the crap.Overpriced that went on in Galway.Alot of dodgy goings on.

ben.schlomo

Surfacezebra wrote: »

The original market was run by Market place Europe who run markets all over the UK and Northern Ireland.They ran into alot of problems with the city council trying to rip them off and the Galway city business association.They said they would never do business in the Republic again after the crap.Overpriced that went on in Galway.Alot of dodgy goings on.

Any links for that or is it just hearsay stuff?

Surfacezebra

I worked for them.

death1234567

gordongekko wrote: »

Let's say 12500 to save an argument

If it's ~12,500 just for the stall that means you need to make €450 profit a day just to cover the cost of the stall. I assume the price isn't that high for the smaller stalls...

Links234

I did a run for some macaroons, because whatever you say about the market, that French bakery crowd is gold. I also got a little Christmas jumper for the dog, but other than that, not feeling the market this year.

I miss Lidl's stalls from last year, they were great.

expatinator

Fancy meeting you here Links

What's the prices like in the market?

jeffk

Zzippy wrote: »

Probably too late for you, but the train station car park behind the Meyrick hotel is €6 for 24 hours and is the closest to the market in Eyre Square. Can be hard to find a space, but you also have a good chance of meeting someone leaving who might hand you their ticket...

Thanks for the post, I missed it in all the replies , I ended up paying €8 for the Q-Park. Handy informtaion for when/if we go to Galway again!

Whereisgalway

Surfacezebra wrote: »

The original market was run by Market place Europe who run markets all over the UK and Northern Ireland.They ran into alot of problems with the city council trying to rip them off and the Galway city business association.They said they would never do business in the Republic again after the crap.Overpriced that went on in Galway.Alot of dodgy goings on.

Not one bit surprised Galway county council are so greedy

ben.schlomo

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Not one bit surprised Galway county council are so greedy

Why dont you start a GCC thread, might save the rest of us having to read your tiresome whingeing.

Mrs OBumble

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Not one bit surprised Galway county council are so greedy

Market is nothing to do with the County Council.

Whereisgalway

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Market is nothing to do with the County Council.

I did mean city council, I think most of the intelligent people on here would have copped that but then again TROLLS like you love picking up on small mistakes

siltirocker

The City Council doesn't run it.

The Market is owed/ran by Galway City Business Association, which is a group of citywide businesses as the name suggests.

They get permission to run it by the City Council.

Then, the day to day running of the market is by Milestone, an event management company.

The stalls go to the highest bidder also.

sammyjo90

death1234567 wrote: »

If it's ~12,500 just for the stall that means you need to make €450 profit a day just to cover the cost of the stall. I assume the price isn't that high for the smaller stalls...

it goes by how much space you take u but its around 8 grand for the smaller stalls excl vat and electricity.

cena

What a load of rubbish. Walked around in 5 mins today

death1234567

cena wrote: »

What a load of rubbish. Walked around in 5 mins today

Had you never been to Eyre square before? What were you expecting, a central park sized area with 500 log cabins full of Xmas fun?

You're right though we should go back to having eyre square full of empty space, wind and rain during the winter. The atmosphere used to be deadly, in fact bring back the old public toilets where the homeless lived too.

bobbyss

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Why dont you start a GCC thread, might save the rest of us having to read your tiresome whingeing.

1.' ...the rest of us...' ? Since when are you speaking for me?

2. A tiresome whingeing ? Aren't you supposed to focus on the post not the poster?

3. 'having to read'. ? Who says you have to read anything?

Thank you ben.

beardybrewer

Nothing brings out the Christmas spirit better than the Galway Christmas Market. It's that magical time of year we have something better to whinge about than weather and traffic.

bobbyss

cena wrote: »

What a load of rubbish. Walked around in 5 mins today

A beacon of light!

Surprised it took you all of 5 minutes to work that out!

It's dire. Nothing in it. I was there once .. oh ... about three years ago and never came back.

I am sure I was missed...Not!!!

Caliden

Was there at the weekend and was majorly disappointed.

Haven't read every reply but would the market run 5 years ago (2010) have been run by Market Place Europe or the crowd that's running it now?

Only went to the beer tent last year but in 2010 the market was really cool and it had some cool stalls as well as a variety of food (boar, ostrich, etc. burgers) but now it just seems to offer sausages and plain old burgers.

Sunny Dayz

We were over in Galway yesterday for an appointment so we decided we would have a nosy around the market while we were in the city. I was a bit disappointed to be honest. There wasn't much there to interest us. Just seemed to be hot dog stands. We got a few French pastries and a box of fudge. I was expecting more Christmas ornaments and gifts and craft stalls. We were there a few years ago and there was far more atmosphere. Granted it was 4 bells when we were there yesterday (Monday) but it felt very empty.


We then went down to the Spanish arch, and it was literally the same stalls again!


The merry go round on Eyre Square looked to be good though, but we had been to the hospital so spinning around wouldn't have been a good idea!

ben.schlomo

bobbyss wrote: »

1.' ...the rest of us...' ? Since when are you speaking for me?

2. A tiresome whingeing ? Aren't you supposed to focus on the post not the poster?

3. 'having to read'. ? Who says you have to read anything?

Thank you ben.

Replace 'us' with lots of others, the poster whinges a lot about the county council and being ripped off, therefore their posts are full of whingeing about same, im unsure of the difficulty you're having there. If i want to read this thread then i do have to come across the posts, thanks though for the concern, i do appreciate it.

The french bakery definitely doesnt seem to be the same crowd as previous years, or else they've a lot less of what they used to do and when did cannolis become French?

ben.schlomo

beardybrewer wrote: »

Nothing brings out the Christmas spirit better than the Galway Christmas Market. It's that magical time of year we have something better to whinge about than weather and traffic.

Careful now or you'll be called out for saying people are whingeing.

bobbyss

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Replace 'us' with lots of others, the poster whinges a lot about the county council and being ripped off, therefore their posts are full of whingeing about same, im unsure of the difficulty you're having there. If i want to read this thread then i do have to come across the posts, thanks though for the concern, i do appreciate it.

The french bakery definitely doesnt seem to be the same crowd as previous years, or else they've a lot less of what they used to do and when did cannolis become French?

Thanks for your qualification: 'Replace 'us' with lots of others,...' and your explanation: 'the poster whinges a lot about the county council and being ripped off, therefore their posts are full of whingeing about same,...' .

Thanks ben.

Whereisgalway

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Careful now or you'll be called out for saying people are whingeing.

Ben from what I can see a lot of your posts are similar to what a troll might post, passive aggressive snide little remarks about other posters which adds very little to OP's topic, which if you took the time to read it is about Galway city council been greedy with the Christmas market

gordongekko

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Ben from what I can see a lot of your posts are similar to what a troll might post, passive aggressive snide little remarks about other posters which adds very little to OP's topic, which if you took the time to read it is about Galway city council been greedy with the Christmas market

where your evidence about the council being greedy on this matter?

bobbyss

gordongekko wrote: »

where your evidence about the council being greedy on this matter?

Whereisgalway's post is an astute observation and concerns ben's snide comments.

It is not about the council's greediness.

ben.schlomo

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Ben from what I can see a lot of your posts are similar to what a troll might post, passive aggressive snide little remarks about other posters which adds very little to OP's topic, which if you took the time to read it is about Galway city council been greedy with the Christmas market

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is the Xmas Market thread, it has nothing to do with your personal grievances with GCC. Stick to the topic. I dare say my posts about the various stalls, my experience walking around it and such like have added a little more than your persistent GCC bashing, which again has nothing to do with the thread.

biko

The thread was started to give out about GCC << see what I did there
Attempts where made to bring about a general discussion about the attractions and wares. That didn't happen and isnt actually in line with the original post.
Calling people trolls isn't nice Whereisgalway so stop that please. If a post is reported the mods will check and make a decision.

Let's stop here and a new thread can be made about market food/beer/wares/attractions, and we'll postpone the GCC greed discussion until 2016.

Thanks.