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Hotel: Staunton's on the Green *** A great guesthouse in an historical building. The location was perfect. Close to everything, and we started each morning with a walk across St. Stephen's Green. The triple room was
enormous and with a good bed for everyone.The breakfast slightly loose for the standard in Irleland. |
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Restaurant: The Church Original restaurant located inside an authentic church. We were on Sunday and there were irish dancers and live music. The food is excellent.
You must try the Church Traditional Beef & Guinness Pie a delicious dish. |
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Restaurant: Elephant & Castle A popular and casual restaurant in Temple Bar. It's chicken wings are famous. The food was inventive, fresh, and inexpensive. |
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Restaurant: Kilkenny Shop Restaurant Located on the first floor of Kilkenny store just in front of Trinity College is a good place for a casual lunch with ingredients fresh and additive-free. |
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Café: Bewley's Oriental Café This Dublin institution is open from breakfast time onwards. Was visited by artistic figures as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and most recently Bob Geldof and Sinead O’Connor.
Excellent place to try pastries and glaces. |
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Pub: Temple Bar Pub The most popular bar in Temple Bar for tourists and locals. With daily traditional Irish Music sessions. |
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Hotel: Orley House B&B **** One of the best B&B i ever been. A lovely house with perfect rooms in size and in decoration. Offers immaculate bathrobes for every guest. Peter, the owner was very kind and helpful with directions and recommend us a good restaurant for dinner.
The breakfast was very good and varied, served in a beautiful greenhouse with views over the garden. A very comfortable atmosphere. |
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Restaurant: The Riverside Restaurant Good atmosphere and very big dishes in this beautiful restaurant in the city centre. Superb the sweet potatoes soup. |
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Hotel: Jurys Inn *** Well located in the city centre. The rooms are clean and spacious. The breakfast is a littel limited. |
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Restaurant: Four Corners. The Four Corners is the restaurant of the Premier Inn Cathedral Quarter Hotel. Good food and the staff are very friendly and helpful. |
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Pub: Crown Liquor Saloon. Belfast's most famous bar has a flamboyant decoration with marble, ceramics, mirrors and mahogany in a serie of wooden snugs lit by genuine gas mantles.
To Enter in this pub is like travel back in time to the late 19th Century. |
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Hotel: Roslea B&B *** Kevin, the owner was very kind and helpful. He tell us intersting things about Derry and his family. Internet works very well.
The location was good for visit Derry. A very quite place. It need some new forniture, and a little modern style. The bathroom are very small but the rooms are ok. |
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Hotel: Teach Eamainn B&B **** Wonderful house and wonderful hostess. Evelyn offered us all her house full of all kind of curios and antiquities. Excellent breakfast served very elegantly in extensive collection of china crockery sets.
And fantastic rooms on the second floor with fantastic views. A second floor "tea room" that was self serve had comfortable seating and allowed us chat a while to plan our next visits. |
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Restaurant: Hargadons Bros. Traditional Irish pub with good 'local' atmosphere. Excellent food and reasonable prices. |
| In Galway - |
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Hotel: Ard Mhuire B&B **** . An excellent B&B with superb rooms. All very clean and new. The decoration is modern and functional. The bathroom clean and perfect. The towells perhaps a little used.
The owners were friendly and very kind. The breakfast was superb. Located in Salthill, 5 minutes to Galway center by car. Wifi is not available in all the rooms, but there is a computer for free use in the house. |
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Restaurant: Mc Donagh's. This restaurant with long communal wooden tables on one side and a more elegant restaurant in the other, offers a great variety of fish. The speciallity is cod and chips. |
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Restaurant: Druid Lane. Beautiful small restaurant and good food in the lively Quay Street. |
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Hotel: Avondoyle Country Home B&B *** Excellent house with rooms larges and comfortables. Evelyn the hostess, was very helpful and soon arranged for us a good restaurant for dinner. The breakfast was delicious
in a beautiful room with wonderful views over the garden. The place is a little difficult to find, but Evelyn provided us with a map that made all more clear. |
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Restaurant: The Oyster House. Great restaurant with a good atmosphere and good food. The Oyster offers a range of interesting, well prepared food at reasonable prices in a scenic location.
We got a table upstairs overlooking the Abbey River and the dinner was a very good experience. |
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Hotel: Redwood Guest Acommodation **** This was the best B&B of my Ireland trip. A luxory manor house very big and very well decorated.
It has enormous gardens a parking places. Evelyn, the owner is very helpful and take care of us very well. The breakfast wonderful in a beautiful dining room
with windows over the gardens. |
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Restaurant: Mac's. This is a modern restaurnt with menu at reasonable prices, good quality food and enormous portions. |
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Restaurant: Salvadors. It serves national and international food. We tried pizzas and pasta. They were delicious and well served. Good prices. |
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Pub: The Grand. Traditional music take turns with live bands in this pub, the more friendly and fun in the city. Many tourist but also many locals drinking, enjoying music and dancing. |
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Hotel: Belvedere Lodge ***. Excellent breakfast. Good sized rooms. The owner, Peter very nice and helpful. They have a great private garden and a useful parking.
Furniture old and outdated, although they were in good condition. |
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Restaurant: Amicus. With a varied menu and prices very reasonable, Amicus Café and Restaurant is a good option for the ambience and excellent service. It is in an excellent location in Paul Street,
in a three floors building. |
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Pub: Oliver Plunkett. A nice Irish pub with live entertainment. It has live music everyday, and it`s not only typical Irish music. Good beer and awesome atmosphere.
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Hotel: Mena House B&B ****. Excellent B&B with large rooms, a placid garden and a useful parking.
The house was tidy and warm. Katherine was a charming, perfect host. The breakfast was WONDERFUL, with more kinds of fruits that i can remember. |
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Restaurant: Kyteler's Inn. The story behind the Inn was what made us want to go but we found it very touristy with crowds singing and clapping along.
The food is eatable but not really good. |
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Hotel: Stirabout Lane B&B ****. This B&B has excellent rooms with great decor and very careful details. Very good breakfast cooked at the moment by Daphne, our hostess who
helped us at all times with good advices about the area. They have a superb garden available to guests. |
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Restaurant: Bates. The better choice in Rathdrum. Delicious food in a lovely and relaxing atmosphere. Don't miss it. |
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