Excellent service from GoBus!! I booked on their webpage which was easy and gave plenty of options…read morefor my flight arrival/departure into Dublin so I could catch the bus to Galway. My flight arrived early and I managed to catch an earlier bus which was a lifesaver as it was cold and I wanted to get to Galway to see the Xmas Market. The driver was very helpful with my baggage and advising about the walk to the hotel in Galway once we arrived. Everyone on the bus was friendly and it soon filled up with shoppers in the Dublin town centre stop. I didn't use the toilet but there is one and other passengers used it. The return trip was just as good, friendly driver again, and the bus was quite empty so plenty of room to spread out. I would definitely recommend the GoBus service, it is competitively priced, easy to get to in both Dublin Airport and in Galway, easy to book and pay for online and as a solo female traveller it felt extremely safe and friendly.

Fantastic!!! Affordable!!! Reliable!!!…read more I just took the bus from Galway for the first time..I ditched the train (which I've been taking for 9 years Dublin/Galway monthly journeys) which is over twice as expensive! Bye bye train hello comfort of gobus! train: €43 Dublin/athenry return gobus: €20 Dublin/Galway return. :)

St Kevins Bus is the easiest way to get to Glendalough from Dublin city. It beats taking any other…read moretransport because it goes through the scenic countryside and drops you off in front of the attraction's tourist centre. Unlike the public bus that takes ages and drops you off miles from your destination, this bus service allows you to get there without the stress. St Kevins Bus departs from Dawson Street at 11.30 am in the summer months. It takes an hour and a half to get to Glendalough because it makes a stop at Roundhouse in Wicklow to pick up more passengers. A return journey costs 20 Euro and pick-up is at 4.30 or 5.30 pm. I highly recommend this mode of travel. The buses are clean and air-conditioned. There's plenty of available seats and the journey is quiet and relaxing.

This is such a good service and one I've been meaning to take advantage of for years…read more The bus leaves Dawson street at 11:30, which was a good time for us, gave us enough time to have a little lie in, make a decent breakie to set us up for the day and then make our pack lunch. We arrived roughly before 13:00, bought a walking map from the visitors centre and headed off on our 9KM walked around the lakes and the Glenealo Valley. If the distances on the map are correct and I would say that they are, from the drop off point of the bus, we did 12KM in all and boy do our legs feel it today. Anyway I digress... so the bus then departs Glendalough at 17:30 to go back to Dublin, which gives you 4.5 hours to see the place. Which is more than enough to tootle around the monastery, the nearby lakes and waterfall. It's just enough time to do the Spinc and Glenealo Valley (White Route) at good pace. I was taken aback by the price of the bus ticket though, 20EUR return from Dawson street. I think this is steep, even for Dublin. But I guess if you are the only direct bus service from Dublin to Glendalough, you can get away with it. I would probably use this service more often if it was cheaper. So I dropped a star for that. My partner made the point that if you've got four/five people altogether who want to go to Glendalough, it would be just as easy and more flexible to hire a car for one day. I am inclined to agree with him. * please check prices and timetables on their website in case any of what I've mentioned has changed!

Urbus save me from having to go from my home (near IKEA) to city centre and back northwards to the…read moreairport or call a taxi for such a small distance so Im delighted they offer an alternative to Dublin bus' ridiculously centralised lines. For people from Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Tyrelstown, St Margarets Rd, and Swords, it's fantastic to have that alternative, saving so much time on their journey. The buses are small but there's quite a lot of space for luggage. Prices are more expensive than Dublin Bus but are still very reasonable and you pay for the reassurance that your bus will arrive exactly at a given time at your stop which it never failed when I was using it...that's priceless when time is a crucial factor.

Very organized station and train staff. I was impressed at the lunch and snacks menu. A lady came…read morearound taking everyone's orders. Just light cold snacks and refreshments for our trip but that's ok. Comfortable seating and we were able to reserve a table for four. A nice fast way to travel through Ireland. My first trip on a train in Ireland!

Most of my travels in Ireland were with the rental car but for the first couple of days in Dublin,…read moreit was Iarnród Éireann which in English is Irish Rail. The train operator for the Republic of Ireland with its main hub in Dublin but spokes leading out to much of the Republic. I did not take any of the long distance trains, just commuter hops on the line between Connolly Station and Maynooth (Maigh Nuad in Gaelic). Most of the time, the trains were on time. Smooth running, clean, efficient, with wifi on board. Never completely crowded except the rush hour schedule which is understandable. I did once almost miss a train because it's nearly time to depart but the track is empty. I learned from one of the staff in Connolly Station that the app might indicate one track number (in this case, Track 4) but the displays in the station show a different track number (Track 7). And it's the ones in the station that you should believe. Thankfully, I rushed over to Track 7 and boarded with a minute to spare. [Review 1813 of 2024 - 74 in Republic of Ireland - 22835 overall]

Honestly, this reminded me of the South Shore Line from Chicago to Michigan City(or South Bend),…read moreexcept that the seats gave you a teeny tiny bit more legroom, are cloth seats(a la the CTA subway in Chicago, which OTOH theirs doesn't have any padding), and have padding to them(a la Metra commuter rail in the Chicago area). And also, all the stops are high platforms above track level, and that none of them are still low level platforms, a la most South Shore stops(except Dune Park) between Gary Chicago Airport/Clark Road and Hudson Lake. I kinda wish there were more shops and places to eat at Connolly Station, since that's one of those things that Randolph St/Millennium Station beats Connolly Station at, oddly enough. Those comparisons aside, we took the train to Howth, and it was a fine train ride out there. Aside from the fact the scenery was kind of a little depressing for the first few stops north of Connolly Station, till you got a little south of where both branches of DART split off(one to Malahide, the other to Howth which I and my family took). One of the north stops before the Malahide and Howth branches split off had a mural painted on that platform I could see from the train, that was interesting. Tried to get a pic of that, but it didn't come out. The scenery really did catch my interest between Sutton(2nd to last stop) and Howth, including the homes you could see off the train route that looked very nice. And the trains running every 30 minutes apart at off peak times till 11:55pm(from Howth only to Connolly Station by that late, though an hour earlier and you could take it to the stations south of Connolly) isn't bad. Though we headed back before then. The LUAS(tram system) has some trams ending their eastbound runs at Connolly instead of the regular eastern end(don't remember that station's name) of that line. And I thought that was nice they make it easy to transfer between LUAS and trains going to/from this station. I didn't feel threatened, but I agree there probably are occasional sketchy people you should watch around for when you enter or leave this station. No worse than at Randolph St/Millennium Station for Metra and South Shore, though. On the platform I didn't have any issues, since you go through a turnstyle where you insert your train ticket before entering. I'd use DART again if I ever return, whether that was to go to Malahide or any of the stations south of Connolly Station.

The DART has always been a fascination for me. My mother has been bringing me on it since I was…read moreabout eight months old, so I hold many dear memories of whizzing by Howth bay on this giant green mechanical caterpillar. Of course, you wil have difficulties remembering your fond memories when you're late for work and standing on a crowded platform while staring at that little red led light turn from four to three to...four again

RIP to this beautiful mess of a bus route. The 17 has been replaced by the (hopefully) more…read morereliable S6, but only time will tell whether it was worth it. Can the sweet memories of the 17 really be overwritten by the swanky S6? TUNE IN SOON. The 17 was a funny bus - it could sometimes be single decker, sometimes double decker, and almost always showed up late or just fully went missing! It was a great bit of fun, standing in the cold, shivering in the sea breeze at Blackrock DART station, waiting to see if the bus would show . . . Even the ancient art of lighting a cigarette couldn't guarantee the arrival of this silver slug (that's the opposite of silver bullet). Anyway, this bus took you places. Usually, uh, places you didn't really need to go, at a pace that even a yummy mummy could out-do, but we loved it, cherished it, and will honour its memory by standing wistfully for hours at its previous stops, like the good old days!

The easiest way to navigate through Dublin is by using their public transportation system. Take it…read morefrom me, I use GPS to find the bathroom. Just kidding, but I use it a lot. When I say easy, I mean easy. If you do find yourself needing a bit of assistance the drivers are helpful. Comfy cushioned seats and charging stations for your electronic devices. I sat u top to take in the views. There are also officers that randomly board to make sure every rider has a ticket. I can't wait to go back.

CityScape buses, are more of a hop on, hop off tour and one of three similar businesses in Dublin…read more We chose the 3 day ticket for €25, see photo. For the most part, it was fast and easy. The drivers are knowledgeable, offering bits of history as you go from stop to stop. Whether it was century old speculation on Charles Parnell's love life, or the very real and sad, yet also heroic ones of the Easter Rising of 1916, we couldn't get enough. One of the best recommendations we received, was on local Trinity Prof Micheál Ó Siochrú's book on Olive Cromwell in Ireland. I would highly recommend "God's Executioner". As our guide pointed out, Cromwell spent only nine months in Ireland, so it's hard to blame him for everything. For us the only down side to CityScape was the apparent lack of buses, compared to it's competition. We too, sat outside the Guinness Storehouse, as other Yelp'ers have noted, while buses went by. And yes, our driver went inside to, er, pickup additional passengers. LOL. It's all part of the charm of Dublin. Enjoy!

Do not waste your money. The bus did not pull in and stop at Houston Station the morning I waited…read moreto be picked up. I watched it go by. It also did not follow the route to to the Zoo the next morning and rather went down the Quay towards the City Center while my husband and I waited on Parkgate. (it was supposed to hit parkgate after the zoo) I was stuck on the bus for 30 minutes while they changed shifts. Another 10 minutes sitting at another stop because he apparently was driving too fast to the next stop. His monologue consisted of snarky comments about big businesses in Ireland avoiding taxes and the waste of taxpayer money on the millennial tower. Finally, and maybe it's because I am a 'new' tourist, there are, I think THREE hop on and hop off services. They do NOT accept each other's fares. When we bought this at the KIOSK there was NO warning that not all Hop ons and Hop offs are alike. Buyer beware!

I've ridden the light rail and metro in five dozen cities around the world, including Tokyo,…read moreTaipei, Düsseldorf and Dallas. Dublin's Luas (Gaelic for "Speed") is just as good as any mass transportation network there is. The trams are clean, modern, efficient and speedy. The stops seem to be more targeted for the locals than the tourists but they work fine. Ticket kiosks are easy to understand and if you purchase and put value on a Leap card, you'll save a bunch and not have to be concerned with tickets. Just tap and go plus they work on the buses. I've not been asked to verify my ticket. I am sure that they do check them, but I've not seen it happen. The Green Line (of course it's green - this is Ireland!) opened in 2004 and with the addition of the Red Line a few years later, there are now 67 stations and enough miles of track to host a marathon. With stations across the city, the Red and Green lines get you just about anywhere except the airport. For that, you need a bus. Like lots of cities, Dublin's International Airport is a good ways from downtown. I felt as safe on the Dublin Luas as I did on any other metro anywhere. [Review 1991 of 2024 - 171 in Republic of Ireland - 23013 overall]

I took the Luas tram to get around Dublin. Luas is the Gaelic word for speed. The tram is very…read moresimple and easy to navigate. There are only two lines, a Green Line and a Red Line. The two intersect each other in a simple cross shape, so it's impossible to get lost. Just make sure you are going in the right direction. Green basically runs north to south, and Red runs West to East. The lines also connect to commuter trains that will get you to further places outside the city. For example, I was able to transfer over to the DART train to visit the village of Howth.