For beginning and ending of our Rick steves tour starting 4/24. Any suggestions of somewhere close by to stay 1 night before tour starts and any suggestion for accommodations at end of tour. Thanks for any help.
Posted by
Kansas, United States
1078 posts
You will like Buswells Hotel, the staff is awesome and the food is excellent. It is centrally located to everything you will want to see in Dublin.
Before the trip you might look at the hotels that are on St. Stephens Green, again the location is everything. After the trip you might consider renting a car and staying in a B&B in the Wicklow Mountains (Glendolough), you would still only be 45 min from the airport.
Posted by
OP
Dixon, Ca, USA
9 posts
We will stay there during the tour but they are booked the night before our tour starts so I was looking for somewhere close by to stay.
Posted by
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA
13937 posts
You may have done this already, but you might try to email the hotel and tell them you are on the RS tour and see if they have vacancies. I did that with the hotel in Haarlem before the start of my 21BOE and got a room that way. On the hotel website it was showing full but there was availability on the booking.com website for the same hotel.
When I did Best of Ireland, the tour hotel was the Harding. It's not too far away from Buswells but there is probably something closer.
Posted by
317 posts
Hi Venice
Any hotel you book in Dublin city centre will be only a €5-€10 taxi ride away from Buswells, so don't worry if you don't get into Buswells, you can easily stay somewhere else and then taxi over on the morning of the tour. We start the tour at 5pm so you'll have plenty of time to pack up, jump in a cab and check into Buswells!
Need any further help, just drop me a line.
Le meas/with respect
Stephen McPhilemy
Rick Steves Ireland Tour-Guide
Posted by
Bern, Switzerland
977 posts
Well I have been staying at Wynn's Hotel for the past 30 years and I've never had a bad experience there.
- It has got a connection with the 1916 Rising as the Irish Volunteers were found here
- It is traditionally the hotel people from the West of Ireland stay in when they go to Dublin, so it's fully of lots of friendly country people as opposed to city types.
Their restaurant is not open every evening, but you can have dinner in the bar any evening - a kind of extended pub lunch. I usually opt for this rather than the restaurant, not for the food, but the company. It's very easy to strike up a conversation and have a bit of craic as we Irish say.