Academy Plaza Hotel Dublin

... by the pilot.  After finally landing and a scary taxi ride, we ended up at our hotel (Best Western Premier Academy Plaza Hotel) for a quick shower and a long walk to explore and to the holy Guinness Storehouse.  We asked a lady n the street ...

... directions, the couples who sat on the shuttle next to us overheard our predicament.   “Hey, we're also staying at the Academy Plaza…you wanna just follow us?” Thank God. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit nervous ...

... . We then went across the road to a place called Dublina, which is like a museum for Viking and Medieval history in Dublin, This museum was fantastic!!!! It had alot of model type exhibits which you could walk through and made you understand what it felt ...

... it ends and it just feels like forever. I've included some pictures of it here. It was abit grey when we began walking through Dublin near our hotel, and at one point it was pouring with rain, but after a few minutes it cleared to blue sky and no rain at ...

... of local life - Ireland too has its mentally ill! Checked out where our Michael worked when he was a night porter at a Dublin hotel a few years ago and walked back to our hotel arriving with sore feet again! We walk the streets of ...

... small pastries – delicious!  As we left the café, I could hear this huge protest going down near Dublin's G.P.O. (General post office which is one of the world's oldest and most distinguished postal headquarters and where some serious ...

... on British Airways to London. Stayed the night of the 20th at the Sofitel in Heathrow terminal 5 departing the next morning for Dublin, Ireland. Arrived on the 21st and purchased round trip tickets on the Aircoach from the airport which dropped us on ...

... friendly and it has a nice vibe. The flight from London was only 50 minutes and before we knew it we had arrived. Our hotel was central Dublin and the bus stopped only 1 minute away. Our first day we mainly walked around the main street where we did some ...

... early. As we were packing we watched a Jimmy Carr special and fell in love with him. A good end to a somewhat forgettable time in Dublin. I guess you have to be a drinker to really get into Dublin. Or maybe you just need more time there. I enjoyed what I ...

On the train by 6.20am from London to Dublin via Wales and the ferry from Holyhead. The green, green, countryside under the grey, grey skies is peppered with cute cottages, industrial cities and, as we get closer to Holyhead, seaside villages with ...