Free Tour of Kilmainham Jail for the first 5,000 people

Muahahaha

Just heard on RTE news there that Kilmainham Jail have a new online booking system and website launching tomorrow and that they'll be giving away free tours to the first 5,000 people who apply.

I've no other details and the only official site here http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/dublin/kilmainhamgaol/ doesn't give detail either.

Tomorrow morning should reveal all. I'm going to apply seeing as I've always moaned at having to pay the OPW €10 for sites like Kilmainham and Newgrange when they used to be free for everyone. That was until the OPW decided to cash in on the tourist dollar back during the Celtic Tiger. By charging foreign tourists they had to also charge Irish people too.

Tasden

OPW sites are free entry on the first Wednesday every month as far as I know op, dunno if that suits you but just in case..

odyssey06

Yeah it's free to get in but then there's no escape... Clever plan.

otterj

Where do I book online?

clevtrev

otterj wrote: »

Where do I book online?

according to the website on the ops link "Tickets are sold on a first come first served basis and cannot be booked in advance." This would imply there is no online booking facility unless they are launching one as part of the redevelopment which is unlikely.

actually you can book online here although I havent loaded the page as the website is very sloooow. May only be for the tours rather than for entry.

http://kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie/

maximoose

Site being hammered it seems

It's about time they brought in advance tickets for the Gaol though, queues are ridiculous there some days

otterj

clevtrev wrote: »

according to the website on the ops link "Tickets are sold on a first come first served basis and cannot be booked in advance." This would imply there is no online booking facility unless they are launching one as part of the redevelopment which is unlikely.

actually you can book online here although I havent loaded the page as the website is very sloooow. May only be for the tours rather than for entry.

http://kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie/

Read the first post!! OPW dont make things easy do they!

maximoose

Picked a day, picked a time, right enough they show up as "Commemorations tickets" at €0. Selected number of tickets but when I click next I get "Unable to communicate with the site"

Edit: Booked, thanks OP!

s_gr

Getting 502 error - bad gateway Site must be getting serious traffic

otterj

maximoose wrote: »

Picked a day, picked a time, right enough they show up as "Commemorations tickets" at €0. Selected number of tickets but when I click next I get "Unable to communicate with the site"

Edit: Booked, thanks OP!

Did you just wait for the page to load?

maximoose

Yep, it's very slow but loads eventually. Picking the tickets took a few tries, getting the "Unable to communicate with the site" each time but after about 10 goes it brought me through to personal/billing details and completed.

Site has just gone down altogether I think.

fdevine

Site is being hammered. Very very slow to process anything. I have managed to book tickets for Sunday though. Took almost an hour from start to finish

bigwillie

Thanks Muahahaha .
Got 2 tickets free on 28 th April,

toadfly

I booked for the 9th, only took about 10 min, just a bit slow.

Thanks OP

podge018

Cheers OP.

Anybody else have trouble printing from their site? I had to take a screenshot, paste to word and print from there. Hopefully its the same barcode on all 4 tickets.

maximoose

Printed fine for me, no confirmation email though.

Edit: found it in spam!

Dub_Jim_Royle

Anyone know if you can book in the summer? I'm waiting to load each individual month page in the 'Select a Date'. Can't even change the URL to the month I want. Have to load April, wait...load May, wait...load June...wait...

EDIT...Didn't get past May

Shaque attack

Got tix for the 9th. Cheers op

Kev_2012

Muahahaha wrote: »

By charging foreign tourists they had to also charge Irish people too.

Haha that's gas, because when I went to the Teotihuacan pyramids in Mexico, it was free for Mexicans but not tourists. Irish places will always try to cash in I wanna learn our history for free!!

phil1nj

Well that was f***ing painful....took about 20 minutes but managed to get tickets booked for late next month.

Thanks OP for the heads up though.

p225886

Unbelievably slowwww :eek:but just had it open in another tab and kept coming back to it. Still lots of dates/times left.
Thanks again OP.

Ruu

Thanks! On the final page now, clicked Book Now, waiting..

ed. Done.

P0lygon Wind0w

Here's a link straight to the Calendar stage of the booking. Cuts out some of the wait time at least.

April
http://kilmainhamgaol.admit-one.eu/?p=calendar&s=OPW_KILM&ev=TOUR&mn=201604
May
http://kilmainhamgaol.admit-one.eu/?p=calendar&s=OPW_KILM&ev=TOUR&mn=201605
June
http://kilmainhamgaol.admit-one.eu/?p=calendar&s=OPW_KILM&ev=TOUR&mn=201606
July
http://kilmainhamgaol.admit-one.eu/?p=calendar&s=OPW_KILM&ev=TOUR&mn=201607

etc

maximoose

Site seems to be flying now, few colleagues got tickets there in no time.

uck51js9zml2yt

Site was slow but got 4 for Saturday.

krusty_10

Thank OP. Got 4 tickets for end of April.
Site is very slow still - but persevere. Took ages for barcodes on tickets to appear, but will probably be easier at another time with link from e-mail when every one is not trying to access it at the same time. ( also found the e-mail in the spam folder )

Muahahaha

Kev_2012 wrote: »

Haha that's gas, because when I went to the Teotihuacan pyramids in Mexico, it was free for Mexicans but not tourists. Irish places will always try to cash in I wanna learn our history for free!!

I was there back in 2003 and iirc it was free then- the Mexicans must have decided to cash in. I remember being at Persepois in Iran where the ticket entry was $1.50. I produced a student card and the price dropped to 15c! I felt guilty after that one! Vietnam and China have to be the worst for over charging tourists- huge signs at sites tell you that you're paying 10x or even 20x what the locals pay.

I suppose €10 for Newgrange or Kilmainham isn't that bad. But it can just be annoying as we're already funding these places through general taxation. At a minimum kids should go free to these places that are important Irish heritage sites IMO

Anyway just got four free tickets, I only need two but I'll give away the other two freebies as a random act of kindness to a couple of strangers on the day.

Enjoy your day out everyone

twowheelsonly

podge018 wrote: »

Cheers OP.

Anybody else have trouble printing from their site? I had to take a screenshot, paste to word and print from there. Hopefully its the same barcode on all 4 tickets.

It'd be unusual if they all had the same barcode.
Check and see if there's a 12 or 13 digit number next to the barcode and compare that with the other tickets.

Moody_mona

Got tickets for July, took all of four minutes just there

dm1979

many thanks op, booked five for myself, the hubby and the kids for saturday. What a nice way to end the Easter break!!

ScouseMouse

I just got 5 tickets for the family for saturday week. Delighted with that. It would only let me have 4 so did a second booking for the mother in law.

Bit of culture to bore my 12 year old

DublinCJM

Thanks OP!

nava

podge018 wrote: »

Cheers OP.

Anybody else have trouble printing from their site? I had to take a screenshot, paste to word and print from there. Hopefully its the same barcode on all 4 tickets.

I also had problems printing, to printer or PDF, only 2 print, the other 2 are blank.

Looks to me that bar codes are not the same.

No email so far on inbox or spam

mistermatthew

Thank OP. Booked

XxMCRxBabyxX

I don't seem to have gotten an email either. Booked the tickets about an hour ago.

neilthefunkeone

Great shout OP. Just got tickets..

DublinCJM

nava wrote: »

I also had problems printing, to printer or PDF, only 2 print, the other 2 are blank.

Looks to me that bar codes are not the same.

No email so far on inbox or spam

I just printed mine and the bar codes on all 4 look identical.

It also has your 4 digit booking ref, which is also the same on all 4 tickets.

P0lygon Wind0w

DublinCJM wrote: »

I just printed mine and the bar codes on all 4 look identical.

It also has your 4 digit booking ref, which is also the same on all 4 tickets.

They look identical alright, but I scanned mine and they aren't

Kavrocks

Just ordered 2. Printed perfectly to PDF from the website and received the email straight away (it's in my Spam folder).

Johnny_Fontane

Kavrocks wrote: »

Just ordered 2. Printed perfectly to PDF from the website and received the email straight away (it's in my Spam folder).

mine went into spam too....cheers to the OP for this.

muloc

nice one thanks OP...how much are they to buy anyway?

Keane2baMused

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I don't seem to have gotten an email either. Booked the tickets about an hour ago.

Mine went to the spam folder.

Cheers for this OP

CinammonGirl

Thanks OP! Booked them but no mail received and can't print but I'm sure that will get sorted!

Kaizersoze81

Check your spam folder as mine went to that also

maximoose

Showed up in spam from "unknown sender" for me

jimbob_jones

Cheers op got 4 tickets for the May Bank Holiday weekend

XxMCRxBabyxX

Keane2baMused wrote: »

Mine went to the spam folder.

Cheers for this OP

Checked there too! No email. I ordered them again as I'd booked on my phone the first time so couldn't print tickets. No email on that order either.

cruhoortwunk

Printed ok via Chrome but not via firefox (3 tickets printed over each other on the first ticket)

curranbaz

All gone!

remoh

Thanks Op, Got them, tried to get in last week, 2 hr Q.

nondescriptuser

Upset I missed them. Tried too early this morning and didn't get a chance to check again until now.
Fair play OP for posting.

"All of the free tickets offered to mark the 1916 commemorations have now been booked.
Visitors will be able to book paid tickets from the 8th of April."

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