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ha ha :laugh: funny chaps these english people:)
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Each year we (my mum and dad (who pay), my brother, his wife, their two kids, my wife, my daughter, and I) go on holiday for a week stopping in a self catering cottage. We have always gone to Devon and Cornwall. I am looking for next year now, and have been looking further afield - Dorset. Been looking all along the south coast of England, Wales, a look at France, but my dad doesn't want to drive over there. Looked at the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Wight. My wife got carried away and started looking for villas in Spain and Portugal. Then I had and idea, what about Ireland, the proper bit at the bottom. Cottages are about a quarter to a fifth of the price everywhere else I've looked. Am I missing something? Is there anything wrong with Ireland to make it so cheap? Is there actually anything there to do? If you were two old but active persons, four in your thirties, and three children aged between 6 and 10, where would you go on holiday and why?
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The Republic Ireland is part of the Eurozone. The British pound is quite high compared to the euro, so a lot of that savings is likely just currency exchange. In addition, Ireland is more economically depressed than France or Spain, meaning prices are going to be lower because proprietors are more in need of pulling in guests.
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Each year we (my mum and dad (who pay), my brother, his wife, their two kids, my wife, my daughter, and I) go on holiday for a week stopping in a self catering cottage. We have always gone to Devon and Cornwall. I am looking for next year now, and have been looking further afield - Dorset. Been looking all along the south coast of England, Wales, a look at France, but my dad doesn't want to drive over there. Looked at the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Wight. My wife got carried away and started looking for villas in Spain and Portugal. Then I had and idea, what about Ireland, the proper bit at the bottom. Cottages are about a quarter to a fifth of the price everywhere else I've looked. Am I missing something? Is there anything wrong with Ireland to make it so cheap? Is there actually anything there to do? If you were two old but active persons, four in your thirties, and three children aged between 6 and 10, where would you go on holiday and why?
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
If you want reasonably priced cottage holidays, why not take a look at Brittany Ferries[^]? We've used them for great holidays in the past. And while ROI is a great place, it's rather expensive at the moment due to the PIGS depression.
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You have as much chance of getting my dad in Disney land as you have of MM posting without swearing. It ain't gonna happen, and if it ever did everyone else would be too shocked to enjoy it properly :-D
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ChrisElston wrote:
You have as much chance of getting my dad in Disney land as you have of MM posting without swearing.
And what the fuck have I ever done to you?
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Each year we (my mum and dad (who pay), my brother, his wife, their two kids, my wife, my daughter, and I) go on holiday for a week stopping in a self catering cottage. We have always gone to Devon and Cornwall. I am looking for next year now, and have been looking further afield - Dorset. Been looking all along the south coast of England, Wales, a look at France, but my dad doesn't want to drive over there. Looked at the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Wight. My wife got carried away and started looking for villas in Spain and Portugal. Then I had and idea, what about Ireland, the proper bit at the bottom. Cottages are about a quarter to a fifth of the price everywhere else I've looked. Am I missing something? Is there anything wrong with Ireland to make it so cheap? Is there actually anything there to do? If you were two old but active persons, four in your thirties, and three children aged between 6 and 10, where would you go on holiday and why?
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Wet, it rains all the time and the food and drink is expensive. And the locals dislike the English.
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Sounds like Luton
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Check out Irish Feries[^], around £250 for a car. Whatever you do don't even think about the Swansea-Cork crossing, even in the summer you'll hate it! I'd look at SW, maybe in or around Cork, normally good [for Ireland] weather. The great advantage of holidaying in Ireland is that there's no chance of sunburn. The drawback is the tendency to rust.
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Serious answer. For that sort of thing you are already doing it right. Devon/Cornwall or Brittany. If you are looking at France then bear in mind the Tolls/Petrol. The Dover crossing is by far the cheapest but we ended up spending more on Petrol and tolls on the otherside. The next time we paid more for the Portsmouth crossing but I think it worked out cheaper after deducting the extra tolls.
PB 369,783 wrote:
we paid more for the Portsmouth crossing but I think it worked out cheaper after deducting the extra tolls
... But if you want an ice cream before getting on the ferry, take out a mortgage and have a stomach pump handy.
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+10 The Swansea Cork crossing is always rough - last time me and wifey went it took 14 hours and even the hard lorry drivers were being sick. Oh, and you end up in Cork.
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pkfox wrote:
+10 The Swansea Cork crossing is always rough - last time me and wifey went it took 14 hours and even the hard lorry drivers were being sick.
When I was about 12 or 13 we went on a North sea ferry to Belgium in very rough weather. The toilet floors were awash with vomit, hailstones the size of tennis balls were pelting the outside decks, everyone was sitting down and clinging on. I was the only person in the restaurant, tucking into steak and kidney pie and chips.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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pkfox wrote:
+10 The Swansea Cork crossing is always rough - last time me and wifey went it took 14 hours and even the hard lorry drivers were being sick.
When I was about 12 or 13 we went on a North sea ferry to Belgium in very rough weather. The toilet floors were awash with vomit, hailstones the size of tennis balls were pelting the outside decks, everyone was sitting down and clinging on. I was the only person in the restaurant, tucking into steak and kidney pie and chips.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
ChrisElston wrote:
I was the only person in the restaurant, tucking into steak and kidney pie and chips.
That's cos the restaurant is about as mid-ships as you can get, which minimizes the effects of a choppy sea on the ship, and being the only one there, you were out of the way of the smell of vomit everywhere else (often the smell alone is enough to make you add to it). Over the years I've done the Fishguard to Rosslaire trip and the Dover to Belgium trip often, several times with wife and kids, and I know of what I speak :)
