Dublin Bus

Dublin Bus is the main bus company in Dublin, it covers the majority of the inner city services, including the airlink bus and the city tour bus. The Dublin bus office is based on Upper O'Connell street which all buses that go into the city centre stop on.. The office is open from 08:30 - 17:30 Monday and 09:00 -17:30 Tue - Fri. Its only open half day on Saturdays and closed Sundays and public holidays. The office its self is quite easy to navigate round, there are information leaflets/ maps and a area where you can locate bus timetables. The staff are very friendly and are happy to help and offer you information. I had used the city bus tour some years ...  Read the complete review

You've gotten to Dublin, found your way out of the airport with more twists and turns than the Crystal Maze, dumped your bags in the hotel and now you're ready to go! Although Dublin is a fairly small city some of the sights are a little hard to find and quite far apart, What to do? To save on the old shoe leather there's only one way to see the sights in Dublin and that's on one of the tour buses which can be seen all over the place. We went with the City Tour buses and the price for an all day ticket was only 10 euros (when am I going to get that symbol on my keyboard?). This allows you to travel non-stop around the whole city and get ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ Many people who visit the “Fair City” of Dublin these days do so on short or weekend breaks. In fact, only last year Dublin gained the premier spot as the most popular weekend holiday destination in Europe, overtaking both Paris and Amsterdam for the first time. If you are one of these “short break” visitors, it is very easy to allow yourself to become overwhelmed by the vast array of attractions that vie for your attention, and with your time limited, it is almost impossible to fit in everything you would like to see or visit. ~ ~ Dublin Bus, the semi-State company that run the public transport system here in Dublin, have been ...  Read the complete review

I'm not that qualified to write too much on this, since I caught a bus in Dublin a total of twice. But there is information that I thought is useful, and should be shared. On arriving at Dublin airport, it's very tempting to catch one of the Airlink buses from just outside the terminal. Don't. As you come out, turn to the left and walk down to bus stop number 2. Catch a number 41 or a number 41C, and you'll be paying around one third of the price for the same route. Well, nearly the same. The difference is that this bus stops en route, and on the way passes down the lenght of Gardiner Street, where a lot of B&Bs and hostels are ...  Read the complete review

Contrary to what others seem to say about Dublin Bus's service, it's not anything as good as it could be. Dublin is unfortunately cursed with bad public transport systems which, despite all the complaints about traffic congestion and air pollution, have improved very little in the past few years, despite substantial increases in the fares. Disadvantage 1: they're quite expensive. And, unlike, for example, London's buses, the fares vary considerably, so you're unlikely to know exactly how much you have to pay the first time you use one, until you actually get on. And if you don't have the exact change, well, that's your bad luck. You ...  Read the complete review