Taking Tourists on The Town

ShriekingSheet

Hi all,

Any input/advice for me; some friends of the family from California over for the weekend- I'm taking them out in Dublin tonight- obviously Temple Bar is an option but might start somewhere "nicer" , Ron Blacks/Cafe En Seine area?

Not very imaginative I know but I'm fairly at a loss!

Cheers

CoNoR

Sleepy

What are they into? If they're into live music bring 'em down to Whelans/The Village. If they just want to do the touristy thing, the Hard Rock Cafe just opened in Temple Bar...

ShriekingSheet

Sleepy wrote:

What are they into? If they're into live music bring 'em down to Whelans/The Village. If they just want to do the touristy thing, the Hard Rock Cafe just opened in Temple Bar...

Cheers man. See thats the problem - i havent met them yet so will have to make a quick assessment when i meet them! But I was thinkin - wouldnt taking americans to an american theme place when there in ireland be a bit crap?

Sleepy

Depends on the Americans tbh, an awful lot of them seem to go abroad to celebrate their own culture!

My advice is to just take 'em out to where you'd normally go yourself, show 'em a bit of real Irish life, not the touristy Irish dancing bars on the quays...

gandalf

Whelans would be good. If they want to eat you are spoilt with Restaurants in town. If you have a car take em up to Johnny Fox's they do the whole "Dididly Iddley Do" gig for the tourists.

kenmc

Porter house. show them some real beer. none of that american sh|t they know and love......
failing that lets see.... Mulligans of poolbeg street, OReillys Tara Street, could even take them on the Dublin Literary Pub Crawl (does that still run in the winter??)
erm.... Foxes up the mountain for the tweeness.....

Waylander

`Like Kenmc said, the porter house could be well worth a visit.

ShriekingSheet

Thanks a million guys

They're 3 girls so dunno if they'd appreciate the porter house! Although it'd put some hair on their chest and I'm sure they'd appreciate that! I think rambling around pub to pub seems to be the plan! Probably will check the porter house out - that guy used to play thee every friday witht the acoustic guitar was unreal - wonder if he still does!

Cheers all

CoNoR

Sarky

A friend of a friend of mine took some tourists to a nearby bog on a leprechaun hunt. He'd just stalk away letting them follow him and occasionally roar "GET DOWN! There, did you see him? He's right there!"

They paid him 20 quid a pop and had actually convinced themselves they'd seen some by the end of the day...

Third_Echelon

Sarky wrote:

A friend of a friend of mine took some tourists to a nearby bog on a leprechaun hunt. He'd just stalk away letting them follow him and occasionally roar "GET DOWN! There, did you see him? He's right there!"

They paid him 20 quid a pop and had actually convinced themselves they'd seen some by the end of the day...

That man deserves business man of the year award...

ShriekingSheet wrote:

They're 3 girls so dunno if they'd appreciate the porter house! Although it'd put some hair on their chest and I'm sure they'd appreciate that!

They'd appreciate it on a night like tonight.. its fookin' freezing out there :eek:

athena 2000

Sleepy wrote:

...My advice is to just take 'em out to where you'd normally go yourself, show 'em a bit of real Irish life, not the touristy Irish dancing bars on the quays...

That's the way to do it. It will be far more interesting to them if they see the real Ireland if they have any sense. The diddly iddley do touristy stuff and Hard Rock Cafe should be avoided at all costs. Hope you're not stuck there now! :cool: