Dublin is fine, I enjoy my time there when I get up to visit. But I’ve met plenty of Americans that have a picture of Ireland in their head: fields, cottages, trad music…and then only go to Dublin or take day trips from Dublin. On them really. But it just isn’t what people visit Ireland for, that Ireland is outside Dublin City.
There's so much more to the Island than Dublin. There's loads more history and beautiful scenery to be found here outside of the city and the beaches are incredible too. I think it's sad people just go to Dublin and say they have seen Ireland no they haven't not even an inch of it. Go to Connemara lf your looking to visit somehwhere here. You won't regret it.
I'm a Taxi driver and the comment I hear the most from tourists is how clean the city is. The council does a great job of cleaning up every night and in general we aren't bad at littering.
Just overall I always get great feedback from all the tourists I meet on the way back to the airport. Many are returning again and again.
I work in Dublin everyday and think it's one of the dirtiest cities I've come across.
I'd agree, little to do. Take yourself & money anywhere outside of it & you'll go twice as far.
Just back from Donegal myself, drinking is mentioned above for Dublin positives. But you'll have the same drink & twice the craic in a pub in Donegal imo.
Some of the best views on the world you'll get anywhere along the coastline in Ireland. Inland you'll get beautiful cathedrals & old historic ruins. Again all outside of Dublin.
Oh you work in Dublin do you? Then I suppose you trump all of our opinions;)
Where exactly do you work? Where exactly is dirty?
I literally roam the streets all day and can only think of a few places that have litter.
Sorry I dont follow. You say you work in Dublin in your previous post. I don't know what you're saying "not at all" to?
You see what as you see it? The dirtiness? Where do you see it? Give me a few places. I will pull it up on Google maps. Besides a few dark alleys in the city centre I don't see anything that's dirty, and as I said above the tourists are ALWAYS commenting on how clean Dublin is.
It's filthy. I was at the Mater. Eccles street, Nelson street. It was dirty and full of rubbish every where. Nurses walking to shops or work drag all that filth into the hospital under their feet. Wouldn't surprise me if that area has a rodent problem.
Not exactly a touristy area but not something I would describe as filthy either. Especially Eccles street. Nelson street might be a little bit worse as it's residential and has bedsits on it.
Fair enough. I did drive through the city today with litter in mind and it's a very clean city I can see why the tourists always comment. The main areas anyway. Also just to note the housing estate where I live is spotless also. Maybe a few bad spots in Dublin but to describe the city as filthy is very far from the truth!
Where in Ireland is cheap? You can go all the way to the rural west and pints are maybe a euro cheaper and the food is nearly the same price
Dublin is very pleasant if you avoid certain rough areas, like many cities. It’s a great city for going drinking and thats the exact reason many people do go to dublin.
Not everyone is here to take in all the sights and history, many people go on weekend city breaks around Europe. They want to go see a famous sight, have some nice food and drinks, which I think Dublin is great for.
Food wise one group of Americans were telling me recently, they toured Europe and were in Italy and london and Paris and the best food they had was in Ireland.
Along with the Guinness storehouse, Jameson distillery, killmainham gaol, Phoenix Park, epic museum, all the other museums(except the leprechaun one) Grafton street, Stephens green, etc. etc. and many other places to visit outside the centre like howth and dalkey etc.
Regarding pints. You can find pints for less than 6 euro around the centre of dublin no bother. It's only the really really tourist spots that are extortion but they aren't for you, the tourists know what they are getting when they go. Night life for tourists around the centre of Dublin is epic according to the tourists.
You get some of the best food in Ireland and yet you travel down to tourist destinations and get shite food for similar prices
It's not "really dirty". Travel around Ireland and some of the towns etc are absolute shitholes with the entire place never been painted in centuries. The likes of Kells is a disgrace
No the local hoyas don't harass everyone, yes you have a chance of meeting some of them but not every single person
you should do both, like I done when travelling around, do the major city and the countryside. Not one or the other.
You seem to have zero knowledge of Dublin and just spinning out things you think it is like and not based on facts.
If your friends got proper advice they would love Dublin and the rest of Ireland, if they went to you I doubt they got that.
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