Price gouging by the pub, restaurant & hotel industry

You'll get the "But But" crowd on now. I suspect the lower energy costs are levelled out by the wages. We are getting ripped off. There is no doubt about it. When you can get on a plane and stay in another European city comparable to Dublin, Cork, Kilkenny etc and still save money you know you are getting fleeced at home.

The last time I can remember prices coming down in Ireland or being in anyway decent was during the recession.

Restaurateurs and publicans will say they aren't making decent profits and the money is being spent on wages etc. Well ok then lads. Open you're books and prove it.

As I've said they can charge what they want but we can also call it out for what it is. They don't like that.

Recently there was a case when Taylor Swift concert was announced that a certain Hotel cancelled a pile of bookings in order to free the rooms up again. They blamed an IT error. Charged double the rate it was previously at and didn't offer it to the guests that had the room previously booked. That's scummy.

No, I was in the place.

Two branches, same menu, I paid these prices, sitting down.

Ireland minimum wage has been near the same for the past 10 years.

Hotel prices have doubled in the past 5.

Go figure.

Try eating in Avoca.

I was charged e18.95 for a baked potato. It would be cheaper to eat at the airport.

Minimum wage in Germany is higher than Ireland - €12 per hour - plus employer costs are also higher than in Ireland.

Wage costs are not my problem.

I dont fancy a toastie or a hot drink.

McD got rid of the front counter staff, automated tills, jacked up prices.

If enough people stop buying, they will reduce prices.

Theres a lot of idiots having food delivered from McD. Its the ultimate in laziness and waste. Order a plain hamburger and have it delivered.

They're eurosaver 6 nuggets went from €2 up to €3 recently.

I'd expect a 4 star in Ireland to be a 4 star. Stayed in Bloomfield House Hotel a while ago. Absolute dump of a hotel. 4 stars proudly displayed above the door (one of the letters in the hotel name was missing, in reality they should have been missing at least 1 if not 2 stars).

Who gives out these stars anyway? It sounds like BER ratings, tick a few boxes and away you go with your good ratings.

He says, with a straight face, as he picks a 2-star hotel above the busiest nightclub in the country and a hotel that's a full feckin Marathon away from the city centre.

I wonder why you didn't show prices of hotels that are 42km away from Munich, hmm?

EDIT: Why not pick a chain hotel with a presence in both here and Munich and compare the two? Would it be because you're guilty of that which you are confusing others of? HMMMM?

Link here to all Munich hotels with availability next Tuesday for a single occupant. Prices start below €50, for this place. No B&B in Ireland is selling rooms at a week's notice for €50, let alone a hotel. People aren't idiots, they know what the prices look like when they're booking holidays. The recent jumps and increases have made Centerparcs look like good value.

Munich hotels for those dates. Note that they're all a full 35km closer to Munich centre than the Ardboyne is to Dublin.

Let me guess. Mid week winter dates that you "randomly" picked :)