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Whats on in Dublin this weekend hotels so expensive?

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  • 17-05-2016 2:56am
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    bigpink
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    Cant see any big concerts and matches?Hotels seem crazy


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    jimmii
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    If you do a search this exact thread title pops up every month or so. Hotels be crazy yo.


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    AndersLimpar
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    Recession gone.


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    L1011
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    Dublin is short a few thousand hotel rooms (CBRE estimate is 5000). Also, low end hotels are mostly full of council emergency tenants due to the lack of social housing, meaning all you get are mid and high range.

    The new 199 room Holiday Inn Express opening on O'Connell Street will help at the low end, but there have been bigger losses in the mid-range sector (Clyde Court being demolished for instance, was 185 rooms)


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    vicwatson
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    Cheap hotel room in Dublin doesn't exist anymore.


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    munchkin_utd
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    the irish open is on this weekend so thats a fairly large influx of people prepared to pay for hotel rooms.


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    testaccount123
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    AndersLimpar wrote: »
    Recession gone.

    We havent been in recession for seven years...


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    L1011
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    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    the irish open is on this weekend so thats a fairly large influx of people prepared to pay for hotel rooms.

    Impact is minimal, the market is that stretched already and it being on in Straffan means its the hotels outside the city (Naas Road, Liffey Valley/Parkwest, Maynooth etc) that would be busiest.

    Actual hotels (no B&Bs, hostels, 'townhouses' etc) in the actual city centre (using 3km on Trivago's distance chart) start at about 160 a room this weekend and about the same next weekend but actually seem to be dearer overall then.


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    Wanderer78
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    testaccount123 wrote:
    We havent been in recession for seven years...


    Recovery now, thank God. Everything is just fine!


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    bigpink
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    Air bnb isnt great value either


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