Thought I’d share budget hotel option I found. If you’re visiting Dublin this summer, you probably know that hotels aren’t cheap. As a budget solo traveler $300+ per night is more than I want to pay.
I just booked a en-suite single room at Trinity College for 5 nights for €660. It’s student housing open to the public during the summer. Amenities appear to be on par with the Italian monasteries I stayed this year. Online booking get 10% off and so do extended stays. https://www.visittrinity.ie/stay/
Posted by
North Carolina
2498 posts
Thanks for mentioning this, Horsewoofie. I stayed there a few years back. It was good to be able to roll out of bed and trundle over to the Buttery (student cafeteria) for a hearty breakfast, then to the Trinity College sites.
Posted by
Bellingham, WA
446 posts
Last summer my friend and I stayed in the business school student housing. We each had an en suite room in an apartment with a shared kitchen and lounge. We were pleased with it.
Posted by
Washington DC
28151 posts
Thank you for this. I've stayed in sort-of student lodgings in Oxford, London and Edinburgh, three fairly high-cost cities. All were perfectly fine and comparative bargains. Places like that are often without air conditioning, so I prefer to use them either outside summer or in cooler parts of Europe. I'll file this info away for an eventual trip to Ireland.
Posted by
TX, USA
4854 posts
Thank you!
I stayed there in June with several other people and it was simple but fine - and both affordable and convenient. I also stayed in university apartments in Cork. They were very affordable and very nice - a bit less convenient since it was a bus ride away from the center, but the bus stopped right by the apartments. I actually really enjoy this kind of stay.
Posted by
Portland, OR
279 posts
acraven: I'd heard of Student Housing stays, but I thought it was Summer only. And like you said, the lack of AC had me not considering it with the heat waves now common. I assume you were there for Student breaks other than Summer?