Ireland, would you go ????

at least you have friends......

 

We had 2 weeks on the West coast of Ireland about 5 years ago - 1 week on the Dingle peninsula and 1 week near Westport - I don't recall it being that expensive

 

I've spent many a night completely larruped in Dingle, and I don't recall it being expensive. Mind you, I don't recall much at all...

Dublin was hideously expensive.

 

Sorry but I have to stick up for Ireland. My dad was Irish so have spent lots of holidays there and still visit now. It has always been very expensive to eat and drink there - even in the sticks where he came from, don't know why. The locals struggle too. BUT please don't be put off going because the people are fantastic. Take your van and your own drink and mix with with locals. So generous and hospitable and always up for the craic. The weather is usually rainy but there are some beautiful places and the beaches on the west coast are some of the cleanest in the world. Dublin is not a barometer for the rest of the country so try elsewhere, it really is lovely. Nuff said.

 

Well said! If you haven't been - surprising how many Brits haven't - go! As above, the west coast is great

 

We had a cottage out by Inch Beach so Dingle was a decent drive away - we saved the big nights out for Westport (which is a brilliant town) - Matt Molloy's is a great boozer, owned by the flute player from the Chieftains - I also dragged one of our dogs up Croagh Patrick - which looks a doddle from the road.

 

Id like to tour ireland in the bus
Theres a fair bit of england and scotland i want to do first though

 

West coast of Ireland for me, was my playground growing up.
Dublin is like any other capital in the world, your treated and shafted in prices like all tourists.

 

Lots of this thread is "would you go to Dublin" not Ireland. they are very different. The euro exchange rate hurts when you go for definite but to be honest Dublin is the last place I would visit in Ireland.

Ireland is a fantastic, scenic, mad country filled with generally really nice and welcoming people. The west generally is fantastic (Sligo, Connemara, Galway, Dingle, Kerry, Beara, West Cork). Baltimore in West Cork as an example is absolutely epic, possibly the most beautiful spot I have ever been to. I have been a few times generally driving round and staying in B&Bs as I didn't have a van back then. It would be absolutely epic in a bus. The south and south east are lovely too e.g. around Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford.

There are excellent and very Irish attractions to find e.g. Ireland's. only. cable car which goes from the mainland to a little island called Dursey off the end of Beara peninsula that is basically a garden shed hanging from a wire and has a sign "rated for 6 people or one person and a cow" and you can tell its carried cattle. There are loads more brilliant things like that.

I very much recommend Ireland so long as you stay away from Dublin (it's a big expensive capital city that is nothing like the rest of the country).

 

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Experience the whole country within one week and have backup at hand all the way. Plenty come over from UK each year and always seem to enjoy it.

 

If you're on holiday why would you care about how expensive things are? Just enjoy the holiday. I can tell you about some great things I've done and seen on my travels and I have literally no memory about how much a pint or a sandwich cost.

 

Because cost and budget will often dictate whether I can go to a particular destination or not. Ask me why I've never been for a fortnight in Barbados, for example......

 

I imagine it's because it's very expensive to get to, it's a long way away so you'd need to stay for longer to make the most of it and it caters for all-inclusive and five star holiday makers. I'm guessing it has nothing to do with how much half a bitter or a danish pastry cost.

 

I have been for a fortnight in Barbados, and apart from the weather and glorious swimming, I hated it

 

Only been to Ireland once, visiting friend of mrs JT in Co Donegal....It was bloody fab, beautiful coastline..
Expensive? Was having too much of a great time to recall much...

 

I used to go regularly, as we have family over there.
Will report back on the prices in a couple of weeks - just been checking out the GSF location in Dublin as we will be taking the Bouncy Bus.