Galway Docks pricing

Carried on where we left off 2 years ago doing the WAW from Sligo on Good Friday. Used the Motorhome Parking Ireland app and found it excellent to cover Connemara and Mayo and found ourselves in Galway on Tuesday night as I had a couple of people to see in town on Wednesday morning.

We knew it was cheap to overnight at the docks if you arrived late and left early but that didnt suit us and I prepared myself for a hearty parking bill paying by the hour. We were surprised to find out for arriving at 4pm on Tuesday and staying overnight and all morning and not leaving until 1pm on Wednesday it was only €8 in total as that is the 24hour rate! Excellent rate to have secure overnight parking so close to the city centre so well done Galway council and with eating out, enjoying live music in Taafes bar at night and filling up with fuel etc left having made a contribution to Galway cities various businesses of €200 odd. Let's hope other cities see the light.

We stayed for 2 nights at St Patrick's weekend without moving and likewise were very pleasantly surprised with how cheap it was to stay all day. We were 3 separate motorhome families with adults and children all out and about all day spending money locally. I think a nominal overnight parking charge for key locations prevents abuse and overstaying (e.g. Howth) and contributes to local businesses.,Hopefully other county councils will follow suit.

We paid up early in the morning (10am) having debated what to do, and it was under €20 to bring us up to 8am the next morning. We were expecting it to be twice that. Great value to be in the centre of things on St Patrick's day.

Is there not a thing where you pay the guy in the hut/cabin/office and it's cheaper?