Waterford Greenway

coleen

Hi I would like to cycle this greenway. I am finding difficult to find a place to stay. Where would you recommend for this. We would be looking at 2 nights Other Than Dungarvan where else would be a good location. Either air Bnb or a hotel for 2 adults in August either 4th and 5th or 17th 18th .
Thanks in advance for recommendations

galwayhooker

Am going to hop in to your thread as am looking to do the Waterford Greenway in the next two weeks also. Was looking online at the company that rents bikes and see there is no shuttle bus this year due to Covid - bit of a bummer.

EverythingGood

coleen wrote: »

Hi I would like to cycle this greenway. I am finding difficult to find a place to stay. Where would you recommend for this. We would be looking at 2 nights Other Than Dungarvan where else would be a good location. Either air Bnb or a hotel for 2 adults in August either 4th and 5th or 17th 18th .
Thanks in advance for recommendations

Keep cycling past Dungarvan and head to Ring, lots of lovely B&B's to choose from.

Stopitwillya

coleen wrote: »

Hi I would like to cycle this greenway. I am finding difficult to find a place to stay. Where would you recommend for this. We would be looking at 2 nights Other Than Dungarvan where else would be a good location. Either air Bnb or a hotel for 2 adults in August either 4th and 5th or 17th 18th .
Thanks in advance for recommendations

Some suggestions in or near Waterford city, all less than 2 miles from the Greenway.
Greenway Manor Hotel
Ramada Viking Hotel
Bridge Hotel
Dooley's Hotel
Tower Hotel.

coleen

Stopitwillya wrote: »

Some suggestions in or near Waterford city, all less than 2 miles from the Greenway.
Greenway Manor Hotel
Ramada Viking Hotel
Bridge Hotel
Dooley's Hotel
Tower Hotel.

From this list which would you recommend ?

Gavlor

coleen wrote: »

From this list which would you recommend ?

Tower hotel

Stopitwillya

coleen wrote: »

From this list which would you recommend ?

I second the Tower Hotel if you want to stay in the city. Only recently done up. Has a swimming pool for after a long days cycling.
Also would recommend the Greenway Manor which is a very nice small hotel in a lovely country setting about a mile or two away from the carrignore entry point to the greenway.

michellie

I agree with the above, the tower is lovely. You're central too. Check that the pool will be open with all these restrictions though.

The green way is beautiful, so lucky to have it on our doorstep

finbarrk

We did it about 3 weeks ago. Stayed in the Fitzwilton in Waterford. Had to get a taxi to Dungarvan because no shuttle bus was running. Cycled to Waterford then. Stopped in Kilmeaden for a short break, so it took just 3 hours. We really enjoyed it and would recommend it. Bike hire was €25. The taxi was €72. If we had more time we probably could have got Bus Eireann.

The Davestator

Done it last week from Waterford to dungarvan and then Bus eireann back to Waterford.
Bit annoying that the bike hire is not doing the shuttle (and not mentioning it when you book with them)

Found the greenway very underwhelming compared to the westport and royal canal greenways but still ok for a day out.

AngryLips

The Davestator wrote: »

Found the greenway very underwhelming compared to the westport and royal canal greenways but still ok for a day out.

Really? That's interesting - I had heard that opposite regarding the Waterford greenway versus the Westport one. Is the Westport one worth doing in comparison?

The Davestator

AngryLips wrote: »

Really? That's interesting - I had heard that opposite regarding the Waterford greenway versus the Westport one. Is the Westport one worth doing in comparison?

The westport is a harder cycle but much more senery along it. The issue I had with the Waterford one was that there were high hedges along a lot of it. Really nice as it went towards dungarvan and nice between Waterford and Kilmacthomas. Nothing much in between though in my opinion.

RoscommonTom

i done the both of them last year and the westport one is far nicer, it can be fierce windy near the sea, the waterford one is a much easier cycle if you have childern with you or are overweight,

AngryLips

Are there as many cycling services along the Westport route? Like are there bike hire companies offering similar breakdown assist etc - might have to look into this for staycation options for what's left of summer.

RoscommonTom

theres a load of places renting them, at least 4 or 5 I think, if you get a carrier for your tow bar, itll pay for itself between the cost of the rentals,

galwayhooker

I have done the Mayo Greenway a few times - beautiful scenery. Just want to do a staycation in Waterford/Wexford area for a change.
Found the bus time table mon - sat from Dungarvan to Waterford - regular enough.
https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=406&form-view-timetables-from=&form-view-timetables-to=&form-view-timetables-route=40&form-view-timetables-submit=1

The Davestator

galwayhooker wrote: »

I have done the Mayo Greenway a few time - beautiful scenery. Just want to do a staycation in Waterford/Wexford area for a change.
Found the bus time table mon - sat from Dungarvan to Waterford - regular enough.
https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=406&form-view-timetables-from=&form-view-timetables-to=&form-view-timetables-route=40&form-view-timetables-submit=1

Got it last week so word of warning - due to SD, a number of people didn't make it onto the bus and had to wait for the next one. get there early and hold your position!

Seamai

Cycled from Dungarvan to Waterford yesterday without a problem, after lunch in the city headed back but a few km into it one of my knees started acting up, ended up walking more than cycling back to Kilmacthomas where I threw in the towel. Maybe 92km for someone who'd not been on a bike in nearly 10 years coupled with the fact that I've been developing osteoarthritis in the last year or so was a bit over ambitious.

Starlord_01

Visiting Waterford one stop one of our staycation and planning on doing Waterford to around Kilmacthomas on Monday. Hopefully the weather holds up!

Seamai

Starlord_01 wrote: »

Visiting Waterford one stop one of our staycation and planning on doing Waterford to around Kilmacthomas on Monday. Hopefully the weather holds up!

Someone earlier mentioned that the section between Waterford city and Kilmacthomas wasn't particularly interesting but the 7 or 8km along the Suir is nice.

Starlord_01

Seamai wrote: »

Someone earlier mentioned that the section between Waterford city and Kilmacthomas wasn't particularly interesting but the 7 or 8km along the Suir is nice.

I think the furthest we will go will be Durrow and then back to Kilmacthomas for a bite to eat. Probably be close to 5 hours including the stop off.

Seamai

Starlord_01 wrote: »

I think the furthest we will go will be Durrow and then back to Kilmacthomas for a bite to eat. Probably be close to 5 hours including the stop off.

It's worth going the extra few kilometres beyond Durrow, through Ballyvoyle tunnel and out as far as the coast.

Starlord_01

Seamai wrote: »

It's worth going the extra few kilometres beyond Durrow, through Ballyvoyle tunnel and out as far as the coast.

Appreciate that, we're a little bit stuck for time but we'll see how much we can do.

obi604

Does anyone k ow if you can rent a bike for an hour?

Or do you have to rent one for the whole day rates?

Starlord_01

obi604 wrote: »

Does anyone k ow if you can rent a bike for an hour?

Or do you have to rent one for the whole day rates?

Almost sure it's day rates.

A group of us going to do the 92km cycle on the Waterford Greenway on Saturday week. Was meant to do Gaelfoce that day but thats cancelled . Looking forward to doing it. Few people i have talked too said its a beautiful cycle