Every delivery charge the eight Irish flower services publish, set side by side, with the date each one was read off their own page. Three of them publish nothing at all, which is the most useful line in the table.
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Every published charge, with the date it was read
Charges are for a Republic of Ireland address. Where a service publishes no figure the cell says so rather than carrying a number borrowed from a competitor.
Published delivery charges by Irish flower delivery service
Saturday delivery is a paid upgrade with the price shown at checkout
Standard delivery is free
Charges are for a Republic of Ireland address and were read from each service's own delivery page on the date shown. Where a service publishes no figure, the cell says so rather than carrying a typical amount.
Three of the eight publish no delivery charge
That is the finding worth carrying away from this page. Of the eight services we compare, four print a flat euro figure on their own delivery page and stand over it. One delivers free on weekdays. The remaining three publish nothing: the charge is worked out from the address, or set by whichever local florist ends up filling the order, and you first meet it at checkout.
None of that is dishonourable. A relay network genuinely cannot quote one figure for every florist in the country. But the effect on a person comparing prices is real and it is one-directional. You cannot rank services on total cost when three of them withhold half the total until you have chosen a bouquet, entered an address and got as far as a basket. In practice people do not go back at that point, which is precisely why the figure sits where it sits.
The workaround is dull and it works: build a basket to the last screen before payment, note the total, then do the same on one flat-fee service. Ten minutes, and it regularly changes the answer, because a bouquet listed twelve euro cheaper can finish dearer once delivery lands on it.
What the premium options actually buy
Beyond standard delivery, the same handful of upgrades appears across the sites that publish anything: a guaranteed morning or afternoon window, a three hour express slot, a Sunday slot, and in one case collecting the flowers yourself for nothing.
The pricing pattern is consistent. A guaranteed window costs roughly twice the standard charge. A three hour express slot costs two to three times it, and at the top of the range the express charge is dearer than a modest bouquet. None of these upgrades change the flowers by a single stem. What you are buying is a narrower promise about when the van arrives.
That is worth paying for less often than the checkout implies. A removal at six, a discharge from hospital at eleven, an office where reception closes at four: those are real reasons. An ordinary birthday is not, and neither is a delivery to a house where someone is in all day.
Three sites, one delivery structure
Something a reader deserves to know when comparing this list: Flowers.ie, Bloom Magic and Flowers Direct publish the same delivery terms as each other. The same standard charge, the same county-by-county same-day cutoffs, the same next-day deadline. Read their delivery pages one after another and the structure is identical.
We are stating what is published and nothing more. We have not verified any relationship between these companies and we do not assert one. What it means for you is narrower and more useful anyway: on delivery terms, choosing between those three changes nothing at all. Choose between them on the flowers and on the starting price, which is where they do differ.
Reading a delivery charge properly
A charge is fair when
It is printed on the delivery page before you choose a bouquet.
It is the same figure for same day, next day and a scheduled date.
The area it applies to is stated, not implied by a map.
Upgrades are listed separately, with their own prices.
Treat it with caution when
The figure only appears after an address has been entered.
"Free delivery" turns out to mean a letterbox parcel rather than a bouquet.
The same-day charge is quoted without saying which counties get same day.
A discount code covers the bouquet but not the delivery.
To see what these charges do to a fixed budget, thefifty euro page subtracts each one and shows what is left for flowers. For the cheapest realistic totals, thebudget comparison ranks bouquet price and delivery charge together.
The same eight, on everything else
A charge is only half of what you are choosing between. Here are the same services on starting price, cutoff times and which days they deliver.
Relay network
eFlorist
A service fee exists, but only checkout will tell you its size.
Your order is passed to a local florist, who makes it up and delivers it. You are buying the network, not the bouquet in the photo.
From
€28.99
Delivery
Not published
Delivery included in the bouquet price plus a service fee; the fee amount is only shown at checkout
Same day
13:00
Dublin. Dublin only, including Howth, Malahide, Swords, Tallaght, Lucan and other suburbs
Next day
21:00
The latest next-day cutoff of any service compared here
Delivers
6 days a week, deliveries between 9am and 9pm, Republic of Ireland only
Figures read from each service's own delivery pages. "Not published" means the service does not state a figure, so you only see it at checkout.
Questions people ask
How much does flower delivery cost in Ireland?
Where a service publishes a figure at all, standard delivery sits either side of nine euro, and it is the same charge whether the address is in Dublin or in Donegal. Guaranteed morning or afternoon windows and three hour express slots cost considerably more. Three of the eight services compared here publish no standard figure at all.
Why do some services not publish a delivery charge?
They calculate it from the delivery address, or in the case of a relay network, the local florist filling the order sets it. That is a defensible reason, but the effect on you is the same either way: you cannot compare total prices until you have built a basket. Where that is the case, the table on this page says "Not published" instead of carrying a typical figure.
Does anyone offer free flower delivery in Ireland?
One service delivers free on weekdays, and it does so by posting the flowers flat through the letterbox rather than handing over a bouquet. No service compared here publishes a spend-over-this-amount free delivery threshold, which is common in other retail and almost absent in Irish flowers.
Is it worth paying for a guaranteed delivery window?
Only when the timing genuinely matters: a removal, a leaving do, a hospital discharge. A guaranteed morning or afternoon slot roughly doubles the standard charge, and a three hour express window can cost more than a small bouquet. For an ordinary birthday it buys anxiety relief rather than better flowers.
How current are these figures?
Each row carries the date a person last read that service’s own delivery page, and the date is printed in the table rather than in a footnote. Nothing here is scraped, averaged or copied from another comparison site. If you find a charge that has moved, tell us and we will re-read the page and update the stamp.