Taylor Swift, GAA quarter-finals and Dublin Pride see weekend hotel prices in Dublin soar to over €400 per night

GAA fans will also be affected as four fixtures take place in Croke Park in the Senior Football Championship quarter-finals on Saturday and Sunday, with Dublin’s Pride parade also on Saturday.

The cheapest hotel room available on Friday, the first of Swift’s three nights in the Aviva Stadium, is a three-star for €135, with the most expensive three-star costing €595.

Rooms in only two hotels are below €200, with 29 between €200 and €300 and 71 between €300 and €400, while 85 will cost more than €400 for a one-night stay on Friday.

The cheapest four-star on Friday is €249 and the most expensive is €532.

By contrast, the following Friday, the cheapest four star comes to €187, while the most expensive is €489.

Dublin will host its 50th Pride march on Saturday, with upwards of 100,000 people expected to attend, as Armagh take on Roscommon and Dublin face Galway in a Croke Park double-header on the same day.

The cheapest hotel room available on the night is a two-star going for €224, with a one-star hotel going for €276.

Only 11 hotels are available for less than €300, with 43 pricing a one-night stay between €300 and 400. The majority of hotels on Saturday night (75) are available for more than €400.

The cheapest three-star is €279, while the most expensive is €599, according to Booking.com, while the cheapest four-star is €338 and the most expensive will cost €510 for a single night.

Adding to the expense for any non-travelling GAA fans for Saturday’s football fixtures is that both games are only available on GAAGO, costing €12 for each game, unless you have a €120 annual pass.

While both Donegal against Louth and Kerry versus Derry in Croke Park on Sunday are free-to-air on RTÉ, travelling fans looking to stay the night or those at Taylor Swift will pay on average over €300.

The cheapest is a three-star costing €146, while the most expensive is a five-star at €704.

The cheapest four-star will cost €189, while the most expensive four-star is €470 and the most expensive three-star hotel will cost €430.

By contrast, a five-star hotel the following Sunday, July 7 will cost between €251 and €499.

Approximately 103 hotels will cost more than €300 for the night, including two two-star and 26 three-star hotels, while 79 hotels in the capital city are fetching for more than €400.

A report on Europe’s hotel sector from Deloitte showed that the average daily room rate in Dublin city centre last year was €210, while a separate Fáilte Ireland report on ‘price-gouging’ found that Dublin hotel prices during big gigs were in line with other European cities.

Swift’s three-night Eras Tour is expected to bring millions of Euro in revenue to hotels, airlines, restaurants and other businesses in Dublin.

The tour has already surpassed $1 billion in revenue, making it the highest-grossing tour in history and earning the artist a Guinness World Record.