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Driving Cork to Dublin Airport

  • 20-02-2012 1:03am
    #1
    emilymch1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭emilymch1


    Hi, I've never actually driven to Dublin Airport - have driven to Bray, Newcastle in Wicklow abut never actually driven any near the city. I have to fly from Dublin in two weeks time and i'm wondering if I should just take the train altogether and be taxi or bus from station or airport. Has anybody any advice or comments??? I'm just a bit nervous as I haven't been to Dublin airport for a long time. thank you


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  • #2
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    What part of it is it that worries you - the actual driving around a city?

    You don't really have any city driving once you leave Cork - leave on the M8 motorway, take it all the way to the M7, continue until the Red Cow Interchange, exit onto the M50 Northbound, continue until the M1/M50 junction, exit left onto M1 northbound, then exit left for the airport - it's motorway almost the whole way.

    The problem is I think you hit 3 tolls along the way - as far as I know there's one on the M8, the M7 and then the M50 toll. I'm not positive about the M8 toll though, it might be a figment of my imagination.
    (Edit: It does exist - on the Fermoy bypass).


  • #3
    mikedragon32
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    Nothing to worry about, it's motorway all the way to the airport and you won't go near the city.

    If you're parking in the long term be sure to use DAA Red, not because it's better/cheaper, it's just that it's probably the best signposted of them all and therefore the easiest to find once you get into the vicinity of the airport.


  • #4
    maggy_thatcher
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    How long are you planning to leave your car in the airport for? If it's any length of time (or if you're travelling alone), it's probably cheaper/easier to just take the bus - Aircoach for example charge €18 single/€28 return from Cork city centre to Dublin airport. When you consider 6 sets of tolls (return) + the astronomical cost of petrol/diesel these days, it's really only viable to take your own car if you are bringing a family along.


  • #5
    Stinicker
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    maggy_thatcher wrote: »
    How long are you planning to leave your car in the airport for? If it's any length of time (or if you're travelling alone), it's probably cheaper/easier to just take the bus - Aircoach for example charge €18 single/€28 return from Cork city centre to Dublin airport. When you consider 6 sets of tolls (return) + the astronomical cost of petrol/diesel these days, it's really only viable to take your own car if you are bringing a family along.

    Good advice this, plus if you are going abroad for any length of time the cost of longterm parking in Dublin airport will soon make driving up the most expensive option. Parking ranges in price from €4.95 to €9.95 a day depending on which car park you choose and the cheapest rates are online at the Airport website.

    I wouldn't even consider the train as prices are very expensive and you still have to take the airlink bus from Heuston train station to the Airport which costs another €6 each way or €10 return and the time difference between train and bus or direct coach service sees the aircoach win on price and pretty much takes about the same amount of time.


  • #6
    munchkin_utd
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    Allyson Attractive Ritual wrote: »
    I drove to cork from Dublin and it was a long drive! I'd defo *edit* get a bus all the way if it was me.
    Cork to Dublin airport is no distance and is an relatively easy drive with motorway and dual carraigeway the whole way.
    From Naas to the airport via M50 is a brisk enough road, but if you've been on the south ring then its not all that different either. Lots of cars on a wide road.

    That said, the economics of it with tolls parking and cost of fuel nowadays does mean the bus is quite attractive even if its times are still not broad enough to meet all arrivals and departures from Dublin Airport.

    Especially the evening rush (8pm onwards) when aer lingus and ryanair planes come back to base from the continent on their second run of the day, often from destinations that have no earlier flight that day or any day.

    For those flights only a car will get you home without an overnight in Dublin.


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  • #7
    emilymch1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭emilymch1


    Thanks or all the advice everyone. having weighed it all up i think i will stick with the Aircoach advice, it gets me right to the airport, we are only staying away overnight. i hadn't taken tolls etc. into account. Apart from everything else there's the ease of not having to find parking for the car and all that.

    thanks

    emily


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