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3rdforum wrote:Staycity Apartments is correct! Do you know if there is a bar in the Ibis hotel Minty? Also, am I going to need drinking practice before I get there? Bear in mind that I haven't had a pint in 3 weeks and it will probably be another 6 weeks before the next one!

Adam Mint wrote:

3rdforum wrote:Staycity Apartments is correct! Do you know if there is a bar in the Ibis hotel Minty? Also, am I going to need drinking practice before I get there? Bear in mind that I haven't had a pint in 3 weeks and it will probably be another 6 weeks before the next one!

Never been in the Ibis but will have a look next time I  pass, there is a trendy cafe bar in the apartment block opposite the hotel if your desperate...

Remembered to cross the road and have a look in the Ibis as I headed to the pool match last night, reception area is set up much the same as the Travel Lodge you were in last time, but no bar as such, there are display fridges at the reception area with snacks, soft drinks and ALCOHOL for sale, there is a seating area as well, also noticed a sign saying "All you can eat breakfast", so they must do some sort of food as well...

  Hic...

Thanks Minty. That doesn't sound appealing at all. I'll look on Google maps for the nearest pub. There is a place nearby that is a thai restaurant/bar overlooking the canal but it does "craft beer" and bottles . Think I'll pass on that as well.

Your a bit short of pubs around  there, nearest is the bars in the station, or the my local,,, there is one down a side street a bit nearer, seemingly they put on random live music occasionally (Irish), oddly I've never been in, but will sus it out...

Adam Mint wrote:That car hire/DVLA code thing, I recall us discussing it on here when it came out, I had it in the back of my mind when we were booking the car for our Ireland trip, never got asked for it, just thought seemed a stupid idea so possibly it's been dropped...

Ah, but didn't you hire in the North?

3rdforum wrote:thought it was only Spain that required that code?? I know a  few pubs that has a better chance of uillean pipes being played but you must remember, most Irish pubs don't have music playing, mostly because its shite. Tourist pubs will put on any kind of rubbish and the visitors lap that shit up. I'll bring you to a couple of places that do proper stuff.

Cheers Dermo! Re code thing:
No, according to my travel agent wifey, we need a code because it lets them know the travel agent has checked my license is clean and am a bona fide driver registered with DVLA. (The car hire company could do the same I suppose but because it's UK based they may have to pay to access DVLA.)

Never asked me for it in Tenerife

I dunno...I jist dae whit a'hm telt!

It is UK only they asked me to download it before I went, which I did, I went to hire the car from a real shit company named GREENMOTION, they refused my car as I had a debit not credit card. I had pre-paid I have an annual excess insurance cover and plenty funds for them to hold the deposit. Reason is they cant take a fine at a later date from a debit card. I went to Hertz, car no worries went to give him the print off from DVLA, he said not needed if my licence is void it is my fault and I will get done not them. It states on DVLA site some companies may ask.

Mcqueen wrote:Never asked me for it in Tenerife

 Autoreisen dont care do they. Just saved another 8 euros off car hire since last week. Now €57.74    Got 3 redundant bono cards now..........

feckin pc acting up. Think it was a windows update night before last. Cant get into "system restore" to try to fix. Also, it wont let me do anything that involve right clicking the mouse

Try a Right Kicking

Any one filled in an E.S.T.A. application lately? it is a real pain in the arse, they now want ex employers and loads of other crap, would have thought they could use info from previous application. 

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Adam Mint wrote:That car hire/DVLA code thing, I recall us discussing it on here when it came out, I had it in the back of my mind when we were booking the car for our Ireland trip, never got asked for it, just thought seemed a stupid idea so possibly it's been dropped...

Ah, but didn't you hire in the North?

3rdforum wrote:thought it was only Spain that required that code?? I know a  few pubs that has a better chance of uillean pipes being played but you must remember, most Irish pubs don't have music playing, mostly because its shite. Tourist pubs will put on any kind of rubbish and the visitors lap that shit up. I'll bring you to a couple of places that do proper stuff.

Cheers Dermo! Re code thing:
No, according to my travel agent wifey, we need a code because it lets them know the travel agent has checked my license is clean and am a bona fide driver registered with DVLA. (The car hire company could do the same I suppose but because it's UK based they may have to pay to access DVLA.)

Yip, booked on line with Alamo, picked car up Belfast airport, almost 100% certain we paid on a debit card...

It is just some that say no to debit biggest loads of bollocks it is money that is there instantly and no protection if they turn you over like a credit card, yet they say NADA.

Cam and Trish, stick the kettle on, we are on the way over! Was just browsing through some of the apartment sites in Edinburgh that I had bookmarked and lo and behold, the place we stayed in earlier this year has had a cancellation.
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I'm after getting the apartment for 3 nights ( 30 Oct to Nov 2nd) flights and car rental with full insurance for 605 euro! Same 3 nights in Ireland was 450 euro. No feckin brainer !!! Woo hoo!!

Result! That place looks great!

The Lone Ranger wrote:Result! That place looks great!

I bet you meant feck it i'm off

Wierd how he is always working on the other side of the country when I'm there

searcher wrote:Any one filled in an E.S.T.A. application lately? it is a real pain in the arse, they now want ex employers and loads of other crap, would have thought they could use info from previous application. 

That the visa thing for the US BIll? Haven't filled out any forms for there in years. When we were going out, Eileen and myself thought we would go and work in the US. I got a green card but she didn't, even though she was a qualified nurse. So we tried Australia then. She got that visa and I didn't. I don't think they looked at the forms at all, just randomly picked out who was successful.

Working ???? Whens that

I got a Ford Focus car rental in Edinburgh for 14 euro a day. That was through Ryanair. Thats cheaper even than Autoreisen!

3rdforum wrote:I got a Ford Focus car rental in Edinburgh for 14 euro a day. That was through Ryanair. Thats cheaper even than Autoreisen!

Will miss you this time D 31st Oct Antigua, Nelsons dockyard I think 

that place looks stunning!!

Went there at the tax payers expense in 1969