Dublin, on a relative budget

[BaileytheQuitter]

If there is such thing as a cheap break in Dublin, it's what I'm looking for!

Going with a group of mates at the end of March, just wondering if anyone has been there:

1) Where are good places to eat?
2) Where is good to drink? *Priority*
3) What is worth checking out while we're there?

Ta.

 

[Pubey]

Temple Bar and the surrounding area are great for drinking, it's not cheap though, probably about 5-6euros a pint. The Guinness and Jameson factory's are both good. A good option is to go on the open top bus where you can hop on and off.

Beefy is your man regarding Dublin.

 

[MrB]

If there is such thing as a cheap break in Dublin, it's what I'm looking for!

There isn't, not since the Euro came in anyway!

 

[londonblue]

If you want Dublin on a relative budget, don't take the family!!!

:hilarious:

 

[osymandus]

Fly from Southend then a bus from Galway to Dublin ;)

 

[Rob Noxious]

2) Where is good to drink? *Priority*

It's a bit off the main drag, but a personal favourite is Ryan's in Parkgate, near Phoenix Park. Mulligan's in Poolbeg Street (I think), quite near the University, is a great bar too. :party:

 

[The Big Shrimp]

Fly from Southend then a bus from Galway to Dublin ;)

Get the flight that stops at Waterford as it should be cheaper & nearer to Dublin from there!

 

[* ORM *]

If you want Dublin on a relative budget, don't take the family!!!

:hilarious:

or better still just go to a pub here dressed in green and have a guinness

 

[sufclee]

Fly from Southend then a bus from Galway to Dublin ;)

Or you could look out for Ryanair's special offers, my fiancee and i went for £4 return!!

 

[Beefy]

Yeah, Ryanair from Stansted is a far cheaper option than flying to the West Coast from Southend is. In 18 months (flying to Essex once or twice per month) here my most expensive flight was €50 return and usually I fly for half of that.

There's no such thing as a cheap night out in Dublin. Accept that before you start. Any other City in the British Isles you can head somewhere for a few cheap beers on a night out but on a Friday or Saturday night you're looking at €4.80 for a Guinness, €5.50 for a lager and €6-8 for a single spirit + mixer (although single measures are 35ml in Ireland so slightly larger than a standard UK measure). In Temple Bar you can add 50c to that and the price increases throughout the night. I'd still recommend Temple Bar though, at least for a while. It's a great craic, it's rammed every evening and it's always full of people there for a good laugh.

Johnnie Foxes is a decent recommendation if you want to see something very Irish (and by that I mean very cheesy, over-priced and playing up for the tourists) but again it's a good laugh, although slightly out of the way being up in the Mountains.

Can't not mention Copper Face Jacks, I suppose. Think the TOTS of Ireland. Absolutely notorious for being full of drunks and slappers but it is what it is and seven nights a week it's rammed. For a bunch of lads you can't really go wrong.

As for things to do in the day.... I've been asking myself that for a couple of years now. There's not much here, truth be told. The Guinness Storehouse is very good, and it finishes with a complamentary pint at the bar overlooking the whole of the City. It's literally the perfect pint of the black stuff and you'll never get a better one. The Jameson's factory is meant to be good as well but I've not been there yet. You can do the bus but again I find the City a bit too small to justify a bus, but that is just my opinion. Dublin's main feature is its array of pubs. If you're here for a couple of days I'd recommend spending a fair amount of time in those. I'm happy to give you a list of pub and bars that I'd recommend but you can pretty easily create your own pub crawl as you rarely have to go more than a few yards in the City before stumbling across one.