My wife and I read Rick's recommendations re: the Musical Pub Crawl that meets out of St. John Gogarty's and are planning to do a pub crawl while in Dublin.
However, after visiting that venue's website, we saw that there is another option that they offer albeit a somewhat expensive one: Musical Pub Crawl Dinner Show.
Have anyone of one attended the Dinner Show? What did you think of it? Is it worth the cost of €43 per person?
Thanks in advance!
Hi - - - Did you & your wife end up going on the Traditional Music Pub Crawl? If so, was wondering if you had a good time (?)
We are a party of 4 traveling thru Scotland & then 2 nights in Dublin. We’re looking to sign up for this pub crawl, if worthwhile. Thanks!
We did not do the dinner. We did the crawl and to be honest, the pace of the crawl was too much for us. It was no "crawl", more like a mad dash and for two overweight, sedentary folks in their mid-50s, it was too much.
The music and beer was great; the sprint between venues was not.
What I can highly recommend is the "Evening of Fairies, Folklore and Food" at The Brazen Head Pub. It is a bit on the expensive side but well worth the cost.
Hosted by rotating folklorists/musicians, it is very entertaining, the food was outstanding and the setting allows you to sit around large tables and converse with other tourists. My wife and I had a great conversation with a group of teachers traveling together. But the highlight by far was the entertaining stories told by the folklorist hosting the event.
Glad to hear the Food, Folk, and Faeries went well. We actually just signed up for an evening in October a couple of hours ago. By the way, a literary pub crawl in Edinburgh, Scotland 4 years ago, during the busy, crowded festival time, was a similar experience for us to what you described in Dublin - mad dashing in the streets, up stairways, trying to keep up with the participants, and more challenge than enjoyment. Cheers!
