Advice for weekend away alone

LegacyUser

I will be going to Dublin the week after next for a concert and a weekend away. I will be by myself. Have no problem with this. I have a lot planned. However I dont want to go to an empty hotel room every night especially the friday night after the concert and i would like to do something - like pub or club. Has anybody ever gone to a pub or club alone before. How will I do that. Any advice. Who know tiredness might get the better of me and i might just go back to the hotel. Any recommendations on where to go at night time for a singlelady.

TheCityManager

How come you're going up alone OP?

dory

TheCityManager wrote: »

How come you're going up alone OP?

Hardly the point.

OP, how about booking into a hostel so you can meet other people in the common area? I always travel alone. You can go to a bar, sit at the bar and chat away. You can have lot of fun, and a weekend alone can be far more relaxing than in a gang.

ManOfMystery

OP

Maybe not a suitable suggestion, but I take it the concert is for a singer or famous band? Why don't you look up their fan club or any local forums and see if anyone is doing anything as a group afterwards - I know they'll be strangers but at least you all have a mutual interest. I went to a concert years ago where I didn't really know anyone but there a nite out planned afterwards and it went very well.

LegacyUser

Singlelady wrote: »

I will be going to Dublin the week after next for a concert and a weekend away. I will be by myself. Have no problem with this. I have a lot planned. However I dont want to go to an empty hotel room every night especially the friday night after the concert and i would like to do something - like pub or club. Has anybody ever gone to a pub or club alone before. How will I do that. Any advice. Who know tiredness might get the better of me and i might just go back to the hotel. Any recommendations on where to go at night time for a singlelady.

Hi Op. Fair play to you for going to a gig by yourself. Not a lot of people would be strong enough to do that. As for what to do.........I went to see this movie last week and it was something special:

http://www.lighthousecinema.ie/booking/film.php?e=SECRET

In the lighthouse cinema which is a lovely place, an antidote to the multiplexes.

fungun

gone to pubs alone but not a club, unless was on the pull!

If you are not usually in Dublin Id have a dinner, maybe go to a coffee shop and read for a bit, maybe a pub for a drink and a bit of a stroll. And if your hotel has internet access you can log on here!! i travel a bit around the country and with my laptop and a book im usually happy enough!

LegacyUser

Friday and Saturday nights are the worst nights to head out on your own in a city I find, unless you are staying in a hostel or are going out for 1 or 2 quiet drinks.

I wouldn;t go to a club on my own unless it was a dance club, ie, playing house music where you can just enjoy yourself on your own on the dance floor (although I've never done it myself).

Hit up a quiet / small pub if you're heading for a drink. Sit at the bar. People will invariably come and chat.

There's not much worse than being in an busy bar, surrounded by people and you on your own. I've been there once or twice.

LegacyUser

Try meetup.com. It's a website which has loads of groups on it. Whatever you're interested in. So for example, you could meet up with a group of people who are vegetarians/love music/movies etc/social groups that meet in bars. It's a good outlet for those people who've found that all their friends regularly have other commitments (eg family, in laws etc).

freakmagnet

Definitely echo some of the suggestions above - i remember was going to a gig with a couple of friends - and i was big fan of the artist, so would drop in and out of the artist message board. I ended up giving some Dublin tips to a guy that was coming to Ireland especially for the gig - and of course, ended up meeting up with him and having a drink etc. Also, hostels are good for meeting - but you'd probably have your hotel booked at this stage. The only thing i would say about going to a pub on your own - and there is lots of quieter places you can do just that, is that onlyyou think its weird - only you are conscious of it! Nobody else even notices the alone bit! And if they do, its in a i admire her confidence style way - they have no idea that is a new and daunting venture - no clue at all. And people will chat to you as long as your head isn't buried in a phone/newspaper or whatever.

LegacyUser

Hi OP!
As others have said you should think about staying in a hostel its a great place to meet people as most people just hang out in there anyway and are very open to meeting new people.
I would try and get talking to people at the gig, have done before and ended up going out with them after the concert and had a great night!