City centre to airport

podger456

Have to be at the airport by 6pm tomorrow and wondering whats the best option. Normally it's an early morning flight that I get which is a 15 min/20 quid trip. With rush hour traffic/additional airport traffic/christmas shoppers I'm thinking it could be a disaster tomorrow. If we're going to be in traffic for an hour or more probably better off, i.e. Cheaper, in the air coach. For anyone that travels the route at rush hour, what's it going to be like tomorrow evening in a taxi? Any decent bus lanes along the way to help out? Will be heading from oconnell bridge area.

veetwin

Port Tunnel is the obvious answer but it will cost €10 on top of the fare. You will make the airport from O Connell Bridge in 20 minutes, 30 absolute max. Going via Dorset St should take no more than 30 minutes in a taxi using bus lanes. That's assuming really heavy traffic

terryhobdell

Air coach 40mins .747 Dublin bus sometimes uses tunnel ask Dublin bus.Cant see why traffic would be that bad anyway .

Ciaran_B

747 always uses the tunnel. Once it gets down the quays it flies (a-ha) out to the airport.

schemingbohemia

If I were you I'd get the Luas to the Point and then wait there, you can get either an Aircoach (Greystones or Killiney) or a Dublin Bus 747, both travel through the tunnel.

Sometimes the buses can get caught in traffic along the quays.

From the point you should be in Terminal 2 in 20 minutes.

podger456

veetwin wrote: »

Port Tunnel is the obvious answer but it will cost €10 on top of the fare. You will make the airport from O Connell Bridge in 20 minutes, 30 absolute max. Going via Dorset St should take no more than 30 minutes in a taxi using bus lanes. That's assuming really heavy traffic

Spot on. Took 25 minutes via Dorset st. Thanks for all the replies.

Paul Tergat

Just fyi...

Only one of the aircoach routes (the Dalkey & Killiney one) now operate at The O2. I found this out on Friday when flying. There is a sign on the bus stop saying that Greystones service no longer goes past so its an hourly service now - 35 past the hour every hour.

LXFlyer

The Greystones service serves the entrance to the multi-storey car park which is on Upper Sheriff Street.

Either way - better to wait at the O2 as you have the 747 there as well.