I pulled into this airport location for a 2 euro coffee.
The carpark was well enough signposted to alert customers to a maximum 30 minute stay as it's within the airport.
This is understandable from their perspective but far from generous to customers. I mean I know it's fast food but rushing to eat this food ain't my idea of dining. Come to think of it, even eating it slowly ain't my idea of dining either that's why it's only occasional cheap coffee.
So if you don't gobble this food on site there's really nowhere close by to eat it before going stone cold; it's motorway and carriageway all around Dublin airport and in my case going back north I'd have to pull over on a motorway hard shoulder which would just be daft.
It was about 5pm when I arrived and there was only a few customers - the chap who was in front of me also ordered only a coffee.
His took a while to be served up and again who knows why - after all it's push a button technology - as I stood waiting and waiting I noted that the staff were extremely courteous to customers. That's what made an otherwise one star review a three star one.
Time passed and the chap in front of me had long gone yet still no sign of my coffee and little sign of much effort behind the counter and darn few customers.
I became conscious that I only had 30 minutes so I called over to a staffer to say I was waiting on a coffee. I didn't hear his reply to me but when he did another staffer, that I couldn't see, confirmed she'd taken my order and very soon after this my coffee was served up.
In other words my coffee order had vanished and only I spoke up I would likely have breached the 30 minute stay and no doubt an exorbitant parking ticket via the postman.
Only the desperation of overbearing osmotic pressure or a ruptured urethral
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