Scone and a coffee - how much is too much?

I know the receipt says 3 tea and scones but at €45 I wonder was it "Afternoon Tea" rather than a scone & tea

Sorry, you're correct. She says in the thread that she sat out the front and there was the noise of the traffic.

Point is there was little opulence people keep taking about. Maybe she should have sat inside to get get money's worth.

this wasnt the palace thow. mikey ryans is on the street

seams to be outside mikey ryans

They wouldn't get 100 likes on Twitter then, n that is no use at all.

There seems to be a bit of confusion over whether they were sat outside some pub with the traffic roaring by, or if it was posh scones and coffee in the lap of luxury of a 5* fabulous hotel.

If it was the latter, then I don't see a problem - we've paid stupid money on a few occasions for an afternoon tea treat with our mother in the Merrion Hotel - when you boil it down it was a few sambos and cakes, and some tea and coffee - but they were all amazing, and we enjoyed every crumb/ drop/ minute.

If it was seats outside a pub on the side of the road - well, then I'd have a few questions alright!

I don't know either establishment, though, so I can't really understand why the confusion.....

But price =/= value necessarily, in either direction.

google says it’s a 4 star. Probably an idea to check the price first but who would have expected to pay 15 euro for a coffee and one scone?

True. Its well worth it if you get the roide that night 😁

You can stick your staycation....

Why would you have a coffee and scone in a place like that? if it's just to have a look around the posh new hotel have a drink, go to the local bakery for the coffee and scone, google tells me in Clonmel that would be Hickey'ss bakery.

On a side note, Clonmel has always struck me as a very wealthy place in the Irish sense i.e based on good land and big farms.

Why on earth wouldn't you have a coffee and a scone in a "place like that"??

If that's your bag, off you go!

If you think it's far better value to get yesterday's scones at half price in the corner shop, then do that.

And anything in between that takes your fancy.

Jaysus!

What's that got to do with the price of cabbages scones?

You're not paying €15 for the scone. You are paying €2 for the scone and €13 to eat in a place where people who can't afford to pay €15 for a scone won't eat.

Coolmore spend a lot of money on the local community but at the end of the day they built the Cashel Palace as a place where their rich Arab and Oligarch customers can stay while visiting. They don't want the €2 scone brigade hanging around the lobby.

I paid almost €9 in KC Peaches recently but it was for coffee and a pistachio raspberry tartlet, their scones are €3, I shudder to think what that hotel would charge for a tartlet like that if they're charging €10 for a scone

If you go to a fancy cafe you are paying for the location of course you could get a coffee in spar for 2 euro and buy a packet of scones you are paying to sit at a fancy table with proper chairs some spars have a few chairs to sit down but there's no room for a large table i think it's expensive but there's plenty of cheap coffee shops you can go to or go to subway if you want to save money

so it's the free market I presume cafes at museums would be much more expensive than Starbucks or Mcdonalds so I think it's wrong to complain its like if I go to an apple store I presume the laptops will be twice the price of a hp laptop from power city

Or riff raff peeking in the windows 😁