Dublin third costliest EU capital for tourists after Monaco and Reykjavik

suicide_circus

if dublin had good weather it would be a great weekend tourist destination; phoenix park, dollymount, howth, dun laoghaire harbour, dublin mountains, few drinks on the cobbles but the 8 months of grey drizzle and icy gusts just take it down a few notches on the holiday scale for me.

Franz Von Peppercorn

buried wrote: »

Prices will fall because nobody will go. I'm proof of it. Probably better off, at least I can go to gigs and shows I've paid for before getting fleeced to sleep in a bed beside a river and nothing else.

Your story is literally an anecdote. You know why the prices were high, right?

Franz Von Peppercorn

suicide_circus wrote: »

if dublin had good weather it would be a great weekend tourist destination; phoenix park, dollymount, howth, dun laoghaire harbour, dublin mountains, few drinks on the cobbles but the 8 months of grey drizzle and icy gusts just take it down a few notches on the holiday scale for me.

It’s grey but Dublin doesn’t get that much rain actually. Plenty of American cities are wetter.

It’s dull though. Today is a god example - not much rain but not much sun. Still that doesn’t stop most activities.

lawred2

buried wrote: »

I actually never minded the taxi prices. I'd tip those guys over the odds because they are actual people trying to survive day to day. The hotel prices really yank my f**king underpants up my arse. The same building I stayed in last year, a building that's been there for countless years is 200+% more expensive this year?? That's a scam. Nothing else.

Or supply and demand

Seriously though, three times more expensive this year than last? That seems unlikely

lawred2

suicide_circus wrote: »

if dublin had good weather it would be a great weekend tourist destination; phoenix park, dollymount, howth, dun laoghaire harbour, dublin mountains, few drinks on the cobbles but the 8 months of grey drizzle and icy gusts just take it down a few notches on the holiday scale for me.

Dublin is quite dry actually

Not even the top 25 in Europe

https://m.imgur.com/r/europe/NXyML1F

buried

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Your story is literally an anecdote. You know why the prices were high, right?

Greediness?

buried

lawred2 wrote: »

Or supply and demand

Seriously though, three times more expensive this year than last? That seems unlikely

Very likely. Especially when you are in the game of doing it year on year for the last 15 years. But it will be no more for me. Cheaper to see the artists and gigs I want to see for the night in other countries. That's no dig, it's the truth. Not a anecdote either.

suicide_circus

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

It’s grey but Dublin doesn’t get that much rain actually. Plenty of American cities are wetter.

It’s dull though. Today is a god example - not much rain but not much sun. Still that doesn’t stop most activities.

lawred2 wrote: »

Dublin is quite dry actually

Not even the top 25 in Europe

https://m.imgur.com/r/europe/NXyML1F

fair enough, I suppose it's the overcast greyness combined with some fugly buildings and rubbish that produce that grimness, that and the strung out citizens which obviously exist else where but just seem to be on every street in the city centre.

Franz Von Peppercorn

suicide_circus wrote: »

fair enough, I suppose it's the overcast greyness combined with some fugly buildings and rubbish that produce that grimness, that and the strung out citizens which obviously exist else where but just seem to be on every street in the city centre.

Where you from yourself, Monaco?

murpho999

suicide_circus wrote: »

fair enough, I suppose it's the overcast greyness combined with some fugly buildings and rubbish that produce that grimness, that and the strung out citizens which obviously exist else where but just seem to be on every street in the city centre.

You're just being negative for the sake of being negative.

Dublin is a fantastic tourist destination and ideal for long weekend city break. Spoken to pleny of tourists who had a good time here.

Have foreign family who have been here and love it.

Go into the city all year round and it's full of tourists enjoying themselves and the city.

Pinch Flat

Berserker wrote: »

There are plenty of touristy things to do in terms of history & culture but the cost is the problem. A tour of the leprechaun museum will set you back €20 per person, which is ridiculous. That's a good example of the cost of things. Some of the museums are free.

Anyone that comes to Dublin and pays €20 to see the leprechaun museum deserves to be shafted

Assetbacked

Berserker wrote: »

Depends what you are spending your money on. If you spent the weekend drinking, it'd cost you a fortune. If you went sightseeing and dining then it'd definitely be cheaper than Dublin. Dublin is disgracefully expensive for tourists. My in-laws who live in Vancouver couldn't get over how expensive the attractions were in Dublin.



Yep and Copenhagen was cheaper and better value from a tourist's perspective, according to my in-laws.



Nope, I go to Basel & Zurich for work. For €15 I'll get a really good meal (main & non-alcoholic drink) on a street cafe. Last Friday I paid that for a p1ss poor attempt at a philly cheese steak & Coke near the IFSC.

What? Absolutely no chance of that. I'm talking about buying a coffee and a sandwich - good luck getting that for under the equivalent of ten euro in Switzerland, even in a petrol station deli!

Assetbacked

Assetbacked wrote: »

What? Absolutely no chance of that. I'm talking about buying a coffee and a sandwich - good luck getting that for under the equivalent of ten euro in Switzerland, even in a petrol station deli!

A crap prepackaged sandwich cost me 14 euro at Geneva airport. Unreal

suicide_circus

murpho999 wrote: »

You're just being negative for the sake of being negative.

Dublin is a fantastic tourist destination and ideal for long weekend city break. Spoken to pleny of tourists who had a good time here.

Have foreign family who have been here and love it.

Go into the city all year round and it's full of tourists enjoying themselves and the city.

I live in the city centre, I know exactly what it's like thanks

suicide_circus

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Where you from yourself, Monaco?

Dublin

Franz Von Peppercorn

suicide_circus wrote: »

Dublin

Sounds like you need a break from it.

suicide_circus

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Sounds like you need a break from it.

critics out, eh?

Corb_lund

murpho999 wrote: »

You're just being negative for the sake of being negative.

Dublin is a fantastic tourist destination and ideal for long weekend city break. Spoken to pleny of tourists who had a good time here.

Have foreign family who have been here and love it.

Go into the city all year round and it's full of tourists enjoying themselves and the city.

Dublin is a shìthole which is filthy, overpriced, with ugly buildings and fuçking TONS of violent junkies.

Source: work there daily and had to step over a lady píssing on a door stop. Talbot street had a junkie giving a handjob recently. Joyous.

Berserker

humberklog wrote: »

Oh come off it FFS, using the Leprechaun Museum as a good example for the costs of things in the city?

For tourists? I think it is. It's a tourist attraction.

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Pretty much any lunch in Dublin is < 15.

Ok, I'm going to Milano for lunch today. Most of their mains cost more than €15. If I want to pay less than €15, I'd have to go for something like a Margherita pizza. The cost of a drink and tip would probably bring the meal up to €15, if not more.

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Anyone that comes to Dublin and pays €20 to see the leprechaun museum deserves to be shafted

It's a tourist attraction and they are tourists. Why do they deserve to be shafted?

lawred2

Berserker wrote: »

For tourists? I think it is. It's a tourist attraction.



Ok, I'm going to Milano for lunch today. Most of their mains cost more than €15. If I want to pay less than €15, I'd have to go for something like a Margherita pizza. The cost of a drink and tip would probably bring the meal up to €15, if not more.



It's a tourist attraction and they are tourists. Why do they deserve to be shafted?

Milano is a franchise and costs the same everywhere in Ireland regardless of location.

Far more affordable lunches to be had..

Hector Savage

mariaalice wrote: »

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Qatar ($124,930) The small Middle Eastern country often ranks as one of the richest countries in the world per capita.
Luxembourg ($109,190) ...
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Bollocks

Berserker

lawred2 wrote: »

Milano is a franchise and costs the same everywhere in Ireland regardless of location.

Far more affordable lunches to be had..

In some fast food outlet or in some pub where you'll pay just as much, in my opinion, for some microwaved chips and packet lasagne?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

I find it hard to believe that Dublin is more expensive to visit than London.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Rhyme wrote: »

Depends on how they applied their metrics really. An actual mid-range restaurant would be eye-wateringly expensive in Reykjavik*, in Dublin, not so much.


*source: had my eyes water looking at menus in restaurants in a few different places in Reykjavik. Toddled back to the cruise ship and ate there for free.

We managed to eat well in Reykjavik for only marginally more expensive prices than Dublin but it took research and a bit of determination. We debated splashing out one evening on a more expensive restaurant but decided that we couldn’t justify the insane prices. It’s just food.

Berserker wrote: »

Nope, I go to Basel & Zurich for work. For €15 I'll get a really good meal (main & non-alcoholic drink) on a street cafe. Last Friday I paid that for a p1ss poor attempt at a philly cheese steak & Coke near the IFSC.

Plenty of good places in Dublin where you can get a main for €15. A drink might sometimes fit into that budget too. You ate somewhere sh1t in Dublin, that’s all.

lawred2

Berserker wrote: »

In some fast food outlet or in some pub where you'll pay just as much, in my opinion, for some microwaved chips and packet lasagne?

This is why I said listing any enterprises to you would be a fruitless enterprise

Hector Savage

Can't believe Dublin is more expensive than Oslo, it costs about €300 to get a hair cut there - for a woman.

Podge_irl

Berserker wrote: »

Ok, I'm going to Milano for lunch today. Most of their mains cost more than €15. If I want to pay less than €15, I'd have to go for something like a Margherita pizza. The cost of a drink and tip would probably bring the meal up to €15, if not more.

So go somewhere else. That is not an indicator that Dublin is somehow more expensive for food then bloody Zurich.

Here is an equivalent Swiss place -> https://www.bindella.ch/api/rm/U98JWSKJTZ4CSW8. It's significantly more expensive.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Berserker wrote: »

In some fast food outlet or in some pub where you'll pay just as much, in my opinion, for some microwaved chips and packet lasagne?

lawred2 wrote: »

This is why I said listing any enterprises to you would be a fruitless enterprise

Yup, exactly, lawred2. Totally pointless endeavour. I was going to name some places but decided that it was a waste of energy.

ednwireland

food in ireland is terrible, even though i live in a touristy are most cafes and restaurants are buying in preprepared food and heating it up, the few that arent are noticeably different in the quality of what they serve.
transport is pretty terrible bus eireann leaves people at the airport all the time, although it is reasonable value
it costs me 10 euro to get a taxi 2miles home after midnight

i love where i live the people, the scenery but would i choose to come here on holiday probably not
but then i talk to spanish people in august who are here in august and say its amazing beccuase its been 40 degrees for 2 months where they live !

but i hate dublin avoid it as much as i can

oh and when you look at the criteria of the survey its probably skewed a bit beer, coffee, hotel, taxi fare, mid range restaurant.

and our powers that be think that minimum alcohol pricing will fix anything apart form the pubs not been quite so expensive compared to supermarkets. (havening been on holiday drinking 50 to 80c per half litre)

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

ednwireland wrote: »

food in ireland is terrible, even though i live in a touristy are most cafes and restaurants are buying in preprepared food and heating it up, the few that arent are noticeably different in the quality of what they serve.
transport is pretty terrible bus eireann leaves people at the airport all the time, although it is reasonable value
it costs me 10 euro to get a taxi 2miles home after midnight

i love where i live the people, the scenery but would i choose to come here on holiday probably not
but then i talk to spanish people in august who are here in august and say its amazing beccuase its been 40 degrees for 2 months where they live !

but i hate dublin avoid it as much as i can

oh and when you look at the criteria of the survey its probably skewed a bit beer, coffee, hotel, taxi fare, mid range restaurant.

and our powers that be think that minimum alcohol pricing will fix anything apart form the pubs not been quite so expensive compared to supermarkets. (havening been on holiday drinking 50 to 80c per half litre)

I kinda feel sorry for people who can’t find good places to eat in Ireland. There’s less choice outside cities and big towns obviously but I can’t think of one part of Ireland I’ve visited where there was nowhere nice to eat.

And do people honestly think that buying in preprepared stuff doesn’t happen in other countries?

Geuze

Recent prices in Paris, Easter 2018


Good hotel in city centre = 210 pn room only

Unlimited transport for Mon-Sun on all public transport in the whole city, not just city centre = 22.80 this is great value

3-course meal in simple city centre restaurant = possible to pay as little as 16 if you know where to go, steak supplement makes 21, I accept that most places are dearer than that.

50cl beer for 3.50 in one pub happy hour until 10pm

Breakfast - coffee [not espresso], croissant, slice of cake, standing at bar = 5.20

Take-away roll from cafe/bakery = 5.00

ThunbergsAreGo

Geuze wrote: »

Recent prices in Paris, Easter 2018


Good hotel in city centre = 210 pn room only

Unlimited transport for Mon-Sun on all public transport in the whole city, not just city centre = 22.80 this is great value

3-course meal in simple city centre restaurant = possible to pay as little as 16 if you know where to go, steak supplement makes 21, I accept that most places are dearer than that.

50cl beer for 3.50 in one pub happy hour until 10pm

Breakfast - coffee [not espresso], croissant, slice of cake, standing at bar = 5.20

Take-away roll from cafe/bakery = 5.00

But "in one pub during happy hour" and "if you know where to go" arent really that relevant when discussing the prices tourists will pay

Geuze

naughtb4 wrote: »

But "in one pub during happy hour" and "if you know where to go" arent really that relevant when discussing the prices tourists will pay

Yes.

Now, the happy hours are common, but more usually at 4.50 - 5.00 per 50cl.

I did a ten min walk around Les Halles area, and found one pub charging 3.50 for 50cl Cruzcampo until maybe 10pm/11pm. Every seat was taken.

There were many pubs nearby charging 4.00 / 4.50.

So with a bit of work, there's no need to pay more than 5.00 until 11pm.

After that though, it's more difficult, yes.

Hector Savage

lawred2 wrote: »

Metrics used

again, Bollocks, no way Oslo is cheaper than Dublin ..

youreadthat

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Monaco and Reykjavik are not in the EU

How is that possible? It’s impossible to have food, clothing, water and money and hospitals outside the EU. The Irish Times said so.

humberklog

There's not much difference in price if eating in Milano or Pizza Express in Britain (same company). If you want to eat in any overpriced international chain (Nandos. Planet Hollywood, The Ivy etc.) work away but that's hardly a decent metric for value for money in certain cities.

Plenty of far better pizzas giving far better value and as a tourist you'd be giving money into independent traders as opposed to throwing money down the gullets of international franchises.

Checkpoint Pizza in George's Arcade for e.g. - 9 quid for lovely pizza, side of fries and a can of pop.