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Have vistor numbers peaked?
We may not have the warmest climate
Ireland is simply far too expensive.
The most costly part of anyone's holiday is accomodation and food and in this regard ireland ranks very badly compared to most other countries.
Look at all the irish leaving every weekend for european destinations due to cheap ryanair flights.
When it cost me the same for 2 nights in a decent hotel in ireland as it did for a week in spain and as for food i won't even go there !.
Well Europeans can get cheap Ryanair flights into Ireland as well! Hotel accomodation is quite reasonably priced I have found. Certainly if you compare like with like on the continent.
Food is the major letdown. We have some great restaurants around the country but there are just far too many mediocre restaurants charging good restaurant prices. It is on the food end of things that we really let ourselves down in comparison with continent IMO.
Yeah, this is correct, there is no comparability in the star system across Europe - in Italy for example a hair dryer in the room can bump an hotel up a notch, they make no distinction between fans and air conditioning in many hotels too, thus with a fan and a hair dryer a hotel can become 4*, seriously! Top Italian hotels are expensive, crappy Italian hotels are reasonably cheap, but would be comparable in standards to most B&B's here (just remember the Italian star system is bollox, or maybe Tourism Ireland is just too honest).Can I just say that the standard of Irish hotels are comparative with price. My old employer had us all staying at a 5* hotel in Rome 2 years ago and it was very poor.
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