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AS WE APPROACH the end of 2023, many of us will be planning a holiday for next year.
While some people will be hoping to jet off somewhere abroad, others might be planning a staycation somewhere in Ireland.
The Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC) estimates that €5.3 billion was spent in Ireland by international visitors in 2023.
While data for the domestic market has not been published yet, the ITIC believe it is marginally down on record 2022 levels.
So today, we’re asking: Have you planned any trips abroad for 2024?
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@jak: €4.50 for a pint in my local, river running through it with a sauna and plunge pool, hydro bikes to rent, great for swimming, blackstairs mountains on the doorstep – great place to be. €10 per night for the campervans
There’s more to the country than Dublin – get out and explore it a bit.
@Wombleman: typical ‘there’s more to Ireland than dublin’. Comment……rural Ireland is as much a rip off as Dublin….That’s why most people don’t holiday in ireland(irish people don’t holiday in dublin)and there is more to a holiday than ‘4.50 for a pint’…..and fyi,I have paid 5 euro for a pint in dublin….. There’s more to Dublin than temple bar.
@jak: now, now… to each their own…
@brian o’leary: I think auld jak secretly loves a holiday at the campsites in kilmorequay
My barber has already asked me, several times
@Patrick MC Dermott: Sounds like he wants to go with you.
Ireland now is more expensive than our family going to Spain. Crazy but true
@Leonard Gardner: Why shouldn’t it be?
I’ll be on as many planes as the climate alarmists
Never doing Christmas in this country again.
Going to Germany, Saturday and Belgrade in March. I spend as little as possible in this country.
In general u can not afford an Irish holiday. But there are bargains if u could go at off peak times. But with school and work this not always possible. And the hotels know this. So we must go abroad especially with families. It’s robbery here.
I have a camping trip booked for the family. It’s going to be in tents.
I absolutely must have fine weather on holiday. There’s no fun traipsing around in the gloom pretending you’re enjoying yourself. Outside of a short last minute break in Ireland our holidays will always be abroad.
As many as possible
Zermatt, Amalfi, The Red Sea…. cheap and cheerful.
Thailand
Food and service is muck in Ireland for what’s being paid. Every establishment utilizing ramekins as portion control on dinner plates. Same menus everywhere, same kids menus everywhere. Everything heated or fried, McIreland more like …. cookie cutter from hotels to restaurants and pubs to deli’s. Boring!
I am planning a holiday away from myself. I just need to figure out how to do it.
@David O Brien: Read books. Great way to get away from yourself for a while.
@Teresa Joyce: lol! Just lost a good mouthful of tea reading that.
Going abroad cant afford holiday in Ireland. Sure cant afford day trip Dublin lately. Didn’t go mad at Christmas rather holidays abroad. Sad country when even have good job ie teacher person know still need help of government to survive. Is getting worst…
@martin finnegan: I wouldn’t like to be in your class,if that’s how you write.
@John Terry: Me fail English? That’s unpossible.
@John Terry: Maybe you have trouble reading but I listed a whole heap of other things beside the pint.
In fact the only reason I mentioned the price of a pint at all is that the comment I responded to was complaining that it was €8 for a pint.
You can take your rant off with you, I would rather do 100 things than spend my holidays drinking.
Or in Dublin for that fact as it’s a kip.
@Wombleman: Typical culchie remark……I’d rather go anywhere abroad than 90% of rural Ireland as the people are like you(ignorant and backwards)and the majority of towns and villages are run down kips.
@John Terry: and dublin isn’t. Mmmm well done John.
My nephew’s wedding in the North of England is on in September. I may also do a trip to Europe.
1 night in Ireland for family of 5 840euro Inc breakfast in co.clare in Cork and Dublin much more pure greed ,getting 2 weeks in Portugal Inc breakfast for 1800 so that’s why everyone holidays abroad hotel prices are stupid and it not like the staff in the hotels are getting paid 50 euro a hour
@M G: But they ARE getting paid enough to be able to take the family to Porrugal. That’s why the prices here are commenserately high.
Going to the bog as soon as the weather permits.
Too early for fraugháns, but at least you’ll have fuel!
I don’t see the option for a one way trip. Many will be doing that methinks. Not a holiday obviously but the headline didn’t specify
Using the words of Kenny Dalglish “maybes aye, maybes naw” not any of your business tho. Happy New year when it comes:D
Yes. Off in a couple of weeks to Spain. This weather has us close to the edge .
I went to Philadelphia once but it was closed.
5.3 billion spent last year by internationals coming here, cant alll be bad.
Looking at flights prices they
are extortionate
Hmmm, let me think, a week in Center Parcs in Longford for €2500 with rain and overpriced food, or travel abroad with the family for €1500, tickets, accommodation incluided plus better food and weather?
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