This is our first visit to Ireland and we are looking for hotel recommendations:
We are trying to find 2 reasonably priced rooms ($150-200 night) in Dublin June22-24. Prefer non-smoking and with good parking options. We would like to be able to walk to Grafton Street and Temple Bar areas from our hotel...
Suggestions?
I stayed at the Glen Guesthouse on Lower Gardiner St, just behind the Custom House. It is just a couple of blocks from O'Connell St, and just across the bridge from the Trinity College/Grafton St/Temple Bar area. They had free parking, though it was a little challenge to get into it (from an alley). It is covered, locked parking. They have a website at www.glenguesthousedublin.com. They advertise "power showers", and they are great.
Our guided tours often stay at the Harding Hotel (www.harding.hotel.ie), very close to the Temple Bar action. Double room about 100 euros on weekdays or 150 on weekends.
http://www.jurysinns.com/hotels/dublin
Jurys Inn, the north side location in Dublin. It has great parking and your close to Temple Bar but not in the action of Temple Bar. It's a very nice area of town to walk around.