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Hiring a car at Dublin Airport is a value for money option which can add significantly to the enjoyment of a holiday. A Dublin Rental car offers the freedom to see Dublin and its surrounding areas at your own leisure.

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Car hire in Dublin is a service well worth your consideration. Many customers will be surprised at just how cheap it is and how much money you can save in comparison to public transport costs.

Ryanair has come in for some strong criticism from the Consumers Association of Ireland due to increases in their baggage check in charges which are due to come into place in October. The new charges mean that the cost of checking in a bag will rise by fifty percent and the fee for a second bag could rise by as much as a whopping two hundred and fifty percent.

Online baggage check in will increase by five euro while checking in a bag at the airport will increase by ten euro.  The cost of carrying sports gear will go up by ten euro for online check ins and also for Airport check ins. There is also an increase in the excess weight charge rising by five euro per kilo.

Speaking on behalf of the Consumers Association of Ireland, Dermott Jewell stated that the new charges “beggared belief”. He went on to stress the effect these costs would have on hard hit families. He believes many things described by Ryanair as optional are in fact necessities.

Ryanair pointed to the fact that it is still free for passengers to bring on hand luggage weighing less the ten kilograms. It was also noted that fares have dropped by around twenty percent in the last year.

According to a recent survey by hotels.com it seems that it is forty five percent more expensive to book a hotel in Galway City than it is in Dublin City. Accommodation in Cork was also six percent more expensive than in Dublin.

In fact Galway was actually more expensive than top European destinations such as Madrid, London, Barcelona and Rome. Prices for a hotel room in Galway worked out at an average of one hundred and ten euro per night. This was despite experiencing a twenty six percent drop in the first half of this year.

The average cost of a hotel room in Dublin worked out at Seventy six euro per night with Cork three euro more expensive. Galway’s neighbouring city in the west Limerick actually worked out at a whopping seventy percent cheaper when it comes to booking a hotel room. The largest drop in room prices came in Cork.

Dublin hotel rooms actually dropped further in Price than any other top European cities apart from Barcelona which showed similar drops. Country wise Ireland reported the largest overall drop in hotel rates.

There was sad news this month with one of Ireland oldest car hire companies going out of business.  Pembroke Services which are part of the Irish Murray Group were forced into closure with debts of around one point three million pounds. The news means the loss of nineteen jobs.

According to the liquidator there was around four hundred thousand pounds of assets which of only around a quarter were available. A father and son team runs the Murray Group out of Dublin. The firm was dealt what was to be a fatal blow this year with the breakdown of a franchise agreement with Europcar.

Employees were left disgruntled over a lack of redundancy or holiday pay. With the firm still operating in the South it was felt by many staff that they could easily be paid. It’s been a tough year for the travel industry in Ireland with tourism numbers well down on previous years.

Dublin passenger numbers this August were well down on the previous year’s numbers. An alarming drop of fifteen percent was recorded at the airport this August which translates to a drop of just over two million passengers.

The second biggest drop recorded came from continental Europe where there was a sixteen percent decrease. Next up was the United Kingdom where a drop of fifteen percent was recorded. Over one million passengers travelled on European routes while six hundred and eighty thousand traveled on UK routes.

Domestic routes proved to be the biggest loser with passenger numbers down by twenty seven percent meaning just fifty four thousand people made use of domestic routes at Dublin Airport in August. Traffic from North America was down by four percent.

Looking at the yearly figures, numbers at the airport are down by twelve percent at this point in time. Over fourteen million customers have used the airport so far this year.