Price gouging by the pub, restaurant & hotel industry

Hellrazer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958628#Comment_120958628

I was quoted 150 ONE WAY from Dublin airport to maynooth last night. Taxi for 7 people. We got a taxi to the airport for 5 people and it was 90. So they wanted to charge an extra 60 euros for two more people. The taxis not going to use an extra 60 euros in diesel.If it does it needs a serious service.

Rip off republic is well and truly back.

purpleshoe

The whole of Irish Hospitality is rotting.

I was in the Marina Market (Cork) at the weekend. For anyone that does not know, it is an old warehouse with an asbestos roof on the docks. Very bleak when the sun is not shining, and the wind is ripping through.

15eur for 2 lattes and 2 pastries. Both coffee and pastry were fine but far from high end. A crazy price to pay really.

What particular annoys me, is the place doesn’t even have planning permission. So for the operators it is a case of “we ignore the laws, stitch it into the vendors who want a stall there, who in turn stitch it into the public.”

Paying a premium to sit in a shed, that is where Irish Hospitality is now.

As the weeks and months tick by the Irish Hospitality sector gets less and less from me. There is little pleasure from it, and more often than not when I do spend my money in the sector I experience buyers regret.

Yeah Right

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957381#Comment_120957381

Different type of room, different dates, different website, but nice try. 😉

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958816#Comment_120958816

It was for a junior suite.

DownByTheGarden

Went in for a sandwich in a hotel in Dublin city center. €12,50 for a cup of tea and a blt. That same thing in the same hotel was €4.50 before covid because i used to do it once a week then. I wont be making that mistake again.

ZookeeperDub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960073#Comment_120960073

Yes it is, so calls into question why you said every website has the same prices.

Junior suite if for 4 people. 350 per night that is 87.50 per night per person

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958595#Comment_120958595

Taxi prices have risen ridiculously, I believe 70/75 euro return is exactly spot on now.

I live in Dublin 7, 15/20 mins drive on the m50 to the airport, the last couple of taxis I took were 40 euro or over, one way. It used to cost me around 25 euro.

Trampas

Hotels and breakfast are just doing the Ryanair model. Places charging kids €10-€15 for breakfast when most of them just want a bowl of cereal and a juice. Should be free no matter what. The help yourself buffer breakfast the majority of them are just cheap sausages etc. The mark up must be huge on them. They’ll say well we’ve to dump a lot of it. Well they should have a good idea what’s usually goes through or do a hot food on request so nothing is really wasted. With hotels getting the government paying for a lot of rooms in them they’re not under pressure to fill beds so can charge what they like.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960088#Comment_120960088

"Handcut Rustic Chips" were an extra 4 quid I bet.

Banzai600

its quite evident, and even judging by general costs that ppl & businesses are gouging unecessarily. Ive heard the stories around hotels etc myself, and we ourselves have changed our socialising outings, as have a lot of friends, and nobody has booked any short stays at home this year.

And we for one wont be doing any short breaks at home for the foreseeable, we'll do a city breaks abroad - which we plan two before December rolls through.

the current tourist gravy train wont last forever either, i know ppl through work - both from UK & US who are no choosing not to return to Ireland as its gotten crazy for hotels and things in general.

When you look at what you can get with trips abroad, last minute deals etc, what could cost you over a grand here for 2 /3 nights in a decent hotel ( one dinner and a breakfast ) , you'd get a week or two abroad in the sun in most cases. 10 nights with airbnb for 1150e flights and apartment - italy or cyprus, no brainer !

re taxi's - its a toxic industry, its a hard job, but i dont know what the answer is to it. We would use family or neighbours for airport hops, and vice versa, like a buddy ssytem. Wouldnt give the DAA mafia a cent for parking unless really really stuck.

Taxi's have gone expensive, no doubt, we use leap cards when heading anywhere that we need a bus if heading out for a jar.

Yeah Right

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960091#Comment_120960091

I never said every website has the same price.

Don't know where you got that from.

I looked on their official website, booked for 2 people plus a baby and that was the only option given. That's €350 for one night for me, if I'm the main breadwinner. Why are you banging on about splitting a room between four people when there's only one couple staying there? Who's gonna split my bill 4 ways with me? You?

Padre_Pio

Some amount of nonsense from people defending the industry.

"Sure its cheap if you fit 4 to a room"

"If you think sleeping in a field is beneath you then you have notions"

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960163#Comment_120960163

You'd be doing well, 6 euro in Parknasilla and that's on top of the 30 euro you'll pay for today's special which is grilled beef.

foxsake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960609#Comment_120960609

boards often as a theme of poverty porn where some kn*b will point out how oppressed life in in china (or another sh1thole) and you should be only delighted that you pay excessively for the privilege of doing something mundane and god forbid you want a slice of luxury or comfort as a treat.

The Nal

Only way to stop it is vote with your wallets. A summer of half full hotels and resorts will make them change their tune.

Wont happen though. Baffling why anyone from Ireland would go on an Irish holiday. An extended one anyway.

Peter Flynt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960609#Comment_120960609

"Look at you with your notions of going over to a four star hotel in Berlin for €100 per night and relaxing/enjoying yourself in the summer sun when you can have Mullingar in the rain for €300 per night without breakfast. The Irish are gone all uppity since they started turning their noses up at €15 for a coffee and cake."

Honestly there is some sort of collective mental illness going on in the hospitality industry.

tayto lover

Jaysus 170 euro from Celbridge to the airport??

The taximan must have thought that you worked in RTE.

EchoIndia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120961316#Comment_120961316

Berlin is hardly "sun central". It's a very nice city either way but good weather is far from guaranteed.

Blarney_man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120956366#Comment_120956366

Albania is top at the moment for what you can get for your €. Something like Croatia 10-15 years ago until it got discovered by cruisers and low cost airlines.

Beasty

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silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120961599#Comment_120961599

Isn’t it a bit dangerous? I saw a Liam Neeson documentary about it.

hymenelectra

Two little incidents come to mind recently.

One was having lunch and feeling slightly robbed when the bill came. Had been many time before but won't be again.

Similar, went to a place to get a sandwich, same as usual until I saw the price was now 9.50 instead of the previous 7. Told them sorry, but I'll pass, and left.

Little small things, but it's getting easier to just say no and not go back to places.

I understand the pressures on all sorts of businesses as they are, but it really is a case of things moving to conclusion. The country is becoming financially unviable.

pat_sconce

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120956963#Comment_120956963

Who says that a hotel stay is only for a holiday.

I've a golf tournament in Cork. Have to attend

Another poster has an Ironman contest.

But Cork is a great city and massive amount of things to do and see.

Only problem is the hotels are ridiculously priced, so I won't be staying in Cork

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120962651#Comment_120962651

Albania is beautiful and extremely cheap. Yes it has criminal gangs, drug gangs and high level corruption, none of which will bother you in the slightest in your 2 week holiday. Highly recommended

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058308479/price-gouging-by-the-pub-restaurant-hotel-industry

You can’t actually compare Ireland with the rest of Europe because there are vast differences between the economies. If you want cheap stuff then you do not put Ireland, Switzerland, luxembourg etc on your holiday list. You can’t get cheap stuff in expensive economies no matter what argument you come up with, you will be disappointed.

purpleshoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120962786#Comment_120962786

Quality is a factor. One would be more at ease paying the bill if the quality was good.

It is not anymore. We are payimg prices that rival those economies but not getting the same quality. Yep there are some examples that would say differently but they are becoming outliers.

The meanness that is rampant across the sector is a disgrace. The distain towards the customer that is rampant across the sector is a disgrace.

tayto lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120962651#Comment_120962651

I thought that was about Leitrim.

McFly85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120962980#Comment_120962980

That’s basically it.

Have been in Denmark a couple of times. Outrageously expensive for a lot of things, but the public see value back in the taxes they pay. Free education, hospitals, strong social welfare, well maintained and updated infrastructure etc.

Our prices go up but none of it comes back to us in any form. We have a 16bn surplus in a country where basically every public service outside of the passport office is in dire need of investment.

We are increasing demand by having multinationals set up shop but are doing nothing on the supply side and the country feels like it’s creaking.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120961075#Comment_120961075

Yep, get out of the country and fûck em… never did the Irish people any favours but the taxpayers certainly looked after them during covid.

lizzyjane

Was in a hotel recently in Belfast. 15£ for the breakfast. Would of cost us 60£ sterling for the wife and kids to have breakfast, the kids maybe having a few slices of toast and some cereal. Madness.

GSBellew

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120959213#Comment_120959213

There are 5 million people on the island and only 10% of those are in Dublin you know, so non Dublin pricing is relevant to 9 times the people that Dublin pricing is.......