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to kerry or not to kerry?
Tr Ash:
was suggested on our board to get onto the person who owns the Ice Boxes on behalf of all the club houses who booked this year and try negociate a price with her for all the houses......im guessin she'd like some business rather than no business...
.....was 700e each this year.....how about asking for each house at say.....500e....with Trinity, UCD, UL booking two each(going on this year) with option of other group getting in on this aswell.....
i'd ask for 500e but be happy if she agreed with 600e for the week.....
....i like kerry cause of the beach, rivers and middle-of-nowhere pub......tis the attitude of a particular holiday home owner and ever increasing prices that annoy me....
*Edited to remove a name*
Siobhan UL:
Also ask her to either bypass the electricity meters for the week seeing as so much needs to be spent on heaters or to increase the number of kilowat hours per €2 as it was and is known to be completely extortionate.
Or to throw a fire on in each of the houses the first day so we don't have to walk into giant fridges.
If you don't ask you won't receive. :)
Mark:
Please don't specifically mention any names of the people who let out houses in kerry.
halfnakedJimi:
this topic is actually far older then the 2 years quotedearlier on in the thread, but this is the first year that anythin has been discussed both among everyone who is involved and also with enough time to make changes if they are agreed upon.
Firstly i'm not in a position to make any comments on the amount or grade of rivers either in Rossbeigh or any other place we might move to. I do however like the current location because of its proximity to some fantastic mountains and climbing (which i will someday be sober enough to do!!). But any rivers/beaches that are accessable from rossbeigh are also almost as accessable from anywhere else in the county. So this can be boiled down to an accomadation and "entertainment" issue.
The reality is that the houses are being charged at extorsionest rates, and then you still have to pay for heating and electricity. A number of ways have been suggested to deal with this but I think the solution might be a synergy of several of the suggestions.
1)firstly we do as Trash suggested and try to book out the place as a whole group of colleges, rather then everyone just seeing what they can get. This will give us greater leverage to negosiate on the price. But whoever is doin the booking will make it clear that the clubs in general are dissatisfied and that if a lower price is not reached then as mentioned above its all or nothing.
2) as siobhan said the electricity meters are a farce, and we should defenatly demand that the houses are warm and dry prior to us moving into them. Also a free bag of coal or brickettes wouldn't go a miss either seeing as all the houses have heating systems that can be run off a back burner in the fireplace
3) if this doesn't work then maybe it is a good idea to move. But as I recall the original plan was just to move for a year, just to scare them and make them realise how important our business is to them. It might be worse just sucking it up and having a slightly less then great Kerry for a year to reap the benefits in the future.
allio:
west cork sounds pretty intriguing(?).
baltimore jimi? small village, a few nice pubs, and lots of holiday homes, are they all occupied at new years already though ?
newport in connemara?
or for that matter, there are a shed load of holiday homes around leenane in west galway, clifden down the road, tuam surf spot across the way, spideal, and quite a few new galway rivers have come to light recently...
could we rent the delphi adventure centre for the week of new years? eoghan powell would be the man to talk to there, about suitability and availability as he has strong connections with the area....
and old employer of mine, and close friend lives in leenane full time, i suppose i could contact him re availability of houses....
contacting bord failte about the possibility of negotiating the rental of a whole village might not be too cheeky? they might be willing to contact all their associated houses in an area to negotiate something....
whatever the f**k i do next new years, it definitely won't be done in aberdeen.... worst christmas and new years ever....
allio
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