Dublin in General

So a few months ago me and my girlfriend managed to bag some 1p flights to Dublin with Ryanair. Great we thought! You seem to hear so much about the place; amazing nightlife, Guiness...um. Did I mentioned the nightlife!? So we did actually start to wonder what Dublin did have to offer other than Guiness and nightlife and did some research online. We discovered it had a viking museum, a modern art museum, trinity college and the Guinness brewery. "Well..." we thought, "the adverts on television are always raving about Ireland" (discover Ireland), so we decided to give it a go. Big mistake! - ...  Read the complete review

I visited Dublin for four days in April. We arrived at Dublin airport in the very early hours of the morning, and a minibus from our hostel came and picked us up. The driver was lovely and pointed out many of the sights along the way to our hostel. The hostel was just fantastic, it was brilliant! It was called Paddys Palace and they have hostels all over Ireland. When we arrived the staff were really friendly and went out of their way to help us in any way they could. The bedrooms were all very clean and we thought we were going to have to share bathrooms but we found out that there was a shower in our room! We were also provided with breakfast in the morning ...  Read the complete review

We visited Dublin last weekend on a cheap 'wonky weekend' - as Martin Lewis calls them. We had a fantastic time and some great experiences, some of which I have already reviewed but here is my run down of Dublin in general on a budget. Costs are approximate as some are in euros some pounds (not much difference at the mo!) Getting there------------------------------------------ We were extremely lucky to bag some £1 flights on Ryanair flying in very early Thursday morning and leaving late Saturday night. Which gave us three full days in Dublin. We found a cheap coach to take us to Stansted and found out nightbus stops at the same stop. Once at Dublin ...  Read the complete review

Dublin is a lovely place, only a couple of hours away from where I live and yet I feel I don't go there enough. Perhaps that's a good thing in a way, when I do go I always enjoy the atmosphere. A beautiful Georgian city, the terraces of Georgian houses are so elegant, such a shame that so many were lost to developers over the years. Like any major city it always seems alive with crowds everywhere but its size gives it an intimacy too, you can easily find your way around. O Connell Street is a wide avenue filled with monuments to the glories of the past and at the centre 'the spire' a huge needle pointing skywards, sounds uninspiring but very impressive up ...  Read the complete review

In November 2004, I took my second trip to Dublin. I hadn't been since I was 12 years old when I visited the city as part of a school trip to Ireland. My memories were somewhat faded. All that I could remember was a trip to the Guinness Brewery and the teachers enjoying a free sample while we drank orange juice. My husband managed to book us on a Ryan Air flight from Manchester, which cost us £99.00, each return fare. After a flight of less than an hour we arrived in Dublin in freezing cold temperatures. We had booked in at the Jury Inn hotel in the Christchurch area of the city. After checking in, we decided to walk to the centre in search of lunch. En ...  Read the complete review