Product Description

19 Self-guided Tours. 39 Maps. One Great Trip.  At last, a travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything-in the smartest, most time-efficient way. 

Includes special interest tours that appeal to literary fiends, fun-loving families, history buffs, Georgian gem seekers and culture vultures for Vikings, Crypts & Cathedrals.  Details great neighbourhood walking tours through the Renewed Docklands, North of the Royal Canal, The Liffey Boardwalk, Grafton Street, Grand Canal to Portobello and Kilmainham to Phoenix.

Includes day trips to Mallahide, Dun Laoghaire to Dalkey and Howth, and recommendations on the best live music venues to the top kids attractions in the city.

• The best of Dublin in one, two, or three days
• Thematic tours for every interest, schedule, and taste
• Hundreds of evocative photos
• Bulleted maps that show you how to go from place to place
• Hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife for all budgets
• A tear-resistant foldout map-enclosed in a handy plastic wallet you can also use for tickets and souvenirs

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #612102 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470519752
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
19 Self-guided Tours. 39 Maps. One Great Trip.

At last, a travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything—in the smartest, most time-efficient way.

• The best of Dublin in one, two, or three days

• Thematic tours for every interest, schedule, and taste

• Hundreds of evocative photos

• Bulleted maps that show you how to go from place to place

• Hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife for all budgets

• A tear-resistant foldout map—enclosed in a handy plastic wallet you can also use for tickets and souvenirs

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

About the Author
Bradford-born and with Dublin roots, Emma Levine spent eight years living, working, and travelling in Asia as an author and photographer, specialising in cricket culture in India and Pakistan. Attention then turned to strange sports in Kyrgyzstan and Iran, and another book and TV series later she returned to England, and is now based in London. With itchy feet rarely soothed, Emma writes travel guides (and thankfully still travels) to far-flung cities around the world, still loving adventures and following sport.

Customer Reviews

Abysmal maps....
We just returned from a trip to Dublin, and this was the only guidebook we used. While it is quite portable, and the reviews of restaurants etc and info on attractions were generally spot-on, we found ourselves cursing the maps in this book.

Our first clue came when we tried using the map in this guidebook to find Davy Byrne's pub, of "Ulysses" fame. (We were in Dublin on Bloomsday) The map in this book had it several blocks to the west, and so we spent a lot of time walking up and down another street looking in vain.

At least three other attractions and restaurants were similarly misplaced in the maps in this guidebook. Which is really a shame, because other than the maps, it was quite useful; but if you can't get to where you want to go, what's the point?

Excellent for first-time visitors or short trips.
We went to Dublin for four days this year, and this was the perfect guidebook to take. We didn't want to lug a big book around -- this one fit in a small bag and held lots of (color-coded) useful information. I also liked that one of us could pocket/refer to the map while the other one flipped through the book.

If we were going to be there for longer, I would want to purchase a more comprehensive guide, such as Rick Steves' or Lonely Planet. For example, the entries in Day-by-Day, while not all ridiculously expensive, are past what our budget allows. It didn't matter for the few days we were in Dublin, as there were enough budget options to go on, but we might feel limited on a longer trip.

Overall, this series of guidebooks is great. Just make sure to check the date of publication of the book and supplement it with internet research if the book is more than a year out of date, so you don't get stuck w/ a restaurant closure or a museum closed for renovations.