Top ten places that suck.

MikeyTaylor · 14-10-2018 09:28PM

OwlsZat wrote: »

The biggest irony in Dublin is the protect the skyline nonsense and it a steaming pile of mismatched garbage. Total kip and fully deserving of the next big crash .

Cork is MUCH nicer.

Mailcoachinn · 14-10-2018 09:37PM

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Cork is MUCH nicer.

Cork is a great spot. The towns on the road to it are spectacularly sh1te though, pity

murpho999 · 14-10-2018 09:39PM

DareGod wrote: »

I was surprised that the reason behind Dublin sucking wasn't that it's filthy, dark, and wet with streets filled with drug addicts, homeless people and beggars. Being expensive is the least of it's turn-offs.

That's because the city is not filhy or dark (Unless you don't think other cities don't get nighttime).

I know plenty of foregners who find Dublin to be a beautiful city.

It's just anti Dublin people on the internet who say it's just full of drug addicts and homeless people.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 14-10-2018 09:42PM

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Couldnt call any of those fantastic, amazing, or great.
Compared to other cities (there must be dozens of cities even just in Europe that are easily more interesting), Dublin has little to recommend it. I would never suggest to foreigners to visit it, and even when some work colleagues from abroad are here and looking for advice on what to see around Dublin, its a bit embarrassing how there is so little for them to see or do.
Having said that, its not a bad city to live in, but for tourism, I would rate it right down there with the likes of Birmingham or Stuttgart.

Most tourist city breaks are 2-3 days long. There’s plenty to do in Dublin in that time.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-10-2018 09:43PM

murpho999 wrote: »

That's because the city is not filhy or dark (Unless you don't think other cities don't get nighttime).

I know plenty of foregners who find Dublin to be a beautiful city.

It's just anti Dublin people on the internet who say it's just full of drug addicts and homeless people.

It is. Can't go a few yards without some filthy scobe hassling you for a hostel or some other ****e. It's a poisonous kip.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 14-10-2018 09:45PM

grindle wrote: »

People who like to travel (and love even more to tell you how much they love to travel) tend to ignore those things. Seems an odd way to "absorb other cultures" but whatever keeps them happy. Maybe they're from an even bigger shíthole so they don't think much when they see more of it.

Because most touristy cities have homeless, muggings etc. Plenty are wet. If you want a safe holiday stay in the caravan beside the village. Just be careful of the winter storms.

DareGod · 14-10-2018 09:50PM

murpho999 wrote: »

That's because the city is not filhy or dark (Unless you don't think other cities don't get nighttime).

I know plenty of foregners who find Dublin to be a beautiful city.

It's just anti Dublin people on the internet who say it's just full of drug addicts and homeless people.

It's not the lack of daylight in the evenings that makes it filthy and dark.

And I was pro Dublin myself until the past couple of years, when my rose tinted glasses finally fell far and shattered hard.

Dublin City is a million miles from beautiful so I'd love to hear precisely what the foreigners you know are referring to.

Outside the city centre there are a massive amount of gorgeous places to see. Inside it, it's currently nothing but a hell hole.

fleet_admiral · 14-10-2018 09:51PM

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Atoms for Peace · 14-10-2018 09:52PM

I'm planning to do a two week tour of Germany taking in Dresden and Stuttgart along the way, oh well.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-10-2018 09:54PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

1, Arklow, Co.Wicklow
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Arkla, Co.Wickla.

Atoms for Peace · 14-10-2018 09:56PM

Dublin: "like getting mugged by the monopoly man"

wexie · 14-10-2018 09:57PM

Just out of curiosity really. What would the people saying Dublin is great say that it has in the way of tourist attractions?

Cause I myself can't think of much beyond the Jameson distillery, Guinness store house and Viking splash? Maybe temple bar if you're that way inclined I guess but personally I wouldn't recommend Dublin for much beyond a drunken weekend and if that's what you're looking for there are many better places to do it.

jackboy · 14-10-2018 09:57PM

DareGod wrote: »

Outside the city centre there are a massive amount of gorgeous places to see. Inside it, it's currently nothing but a hell hole.

True. The opposite of many European cities.

jackboy · 14-10-2018 09:57PM

DareGod wrote: »

Outside the city centre there are a massive amount of gorgeous places to see. Inside it, it's currently nothing but a hell hole.

True. The opposite of many European cities.

murpho999 · 14-10-2018 10:00PM

DareGod wrote: »

It's not the lack of daylight in the evenings that makes it filthy and dark.

And I was pro Dublin myself until the past couple of years, when my rose tinted glasses finally fell far and shattered hard.

Dublin City is a million miles from beautiful so I'd love to hear precisely what the foreigners you know are referring to.

Outside the city centre there are a massive amount of gorgeous places to see. Inside it, it's currently nothing but a hell hole.

My wife is Dutch and we get plenty of visitors over and they all enjoyed the city and found it very beautiful.

They liked the architecture, Georgian squares and its doors. Stephen's Green and Phoenix Park as well as the nice shops and shopping centres and general vibe of the place.

Calling it a hellhole is completely ridiculous.
Try an African or Indian city for a real take of what a hellhole is.

LuckyGent88 · 14-10-2018 10:03PM

wexie wrote: »

Just out of curiosity really. What would the people saying Dublin is great say that it has in the way of tourist attractions?

Cause I myself can't think of much beyond the Jameson distillery, Guinness store house and Viking splash? Maybe temple bar if you're that way inclined I guess but personally I wouldn't recommend Dublin for much beyond a drunken weekend and if that's what you're looking for there are many better places to do it.

I regularly meet my German girlfriend in Dublin for a weekend or a few days and have had very enjoyable weekends. For me coming from Clare the price of drink in the tourist areas is a joke but I’m fairly used to it having been to the likes of Oslo and Paris which are pretty much double what you pay in Dublin.

Plenty to do and see in Dublin.
Bike ride around Phoenix Park
Glasnevin cemetery and botanical gardens
Epic immigration museum
Kilmainom Gaol
Little museum of Dublin.

We find it way too easy to bash our own places. There are much much more worse places to visit in Europe never mind the world.

corner of hells · 14-10-2018 10:05PM

wexie wrote: »

Just out of curiosity really. What would the people saying Dublin is great say that it has in the way of tourist attractions?

Cause I myself can't think of much beyond the Jameson distillery, Guinness store house and Viking splash? Maybe temple bar if you're that way inclined I guess but personally I wouldn't recommend Dublin for much beyond a drunken weekend and if that's what you're looking for there are many better places to do it.

Chester Beatty library , museums while not on a par with some of the museums abroad still pretty good , the Basin , some nice parks , lots of buildings of historical interest .

murpho999 · 14-10-2018 10:10PM

wexie wrote: »

Just out of curiosity really. What would the people saying Dublin is great say that it has in the way of tourist attractions?

Cause I myself can't think of much beyond the Jameson distillery, Guinness store house and Viking splash? Maybe temple bar if you're that way inclined I guess but personally I wouldn't recommend Dublin for much beyond a drunken weekend and if that's what you're looking for there are many better places to do it.

In no particular order:

Trinity College
Book of Kells
Christchurch Cathedral
Dublin Castle
Phoenix Park
GPO
St Patrick's Cathedral
The National Gallery
The National Library
Chester Beatty Library
National Botanic Gardens
Marsh's Library
Kimainham Jail
Richmond Barracks
Collin's Barracks National Museurm
The Little Museum of Dublin

There's tons of stuff to see and do in Dublin.

Pyr0 · 14-10-2018 10:14PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Dublin is outrageously overpriced for a city of its size and status. I really don't know how it can be considered competitive in that regard. I suspect stratospheric house prices and rents are are feeding into high prices.

And the govt don't seem to care one iota...

Absolutely! Dublin prices swan around as if we're a city like London or San Francisco, it can't be sustainable at this rate.

Why would the government care? It's not like their own pockets are hit in any way by increasing prices.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 14-10-2018 10:23PM

Pyr0 wrote: »

Absolutely! Dublin prices swan around as if we're a city like London or San Francisco, it can't be sustainable at this rate.

Why would the government care? It's not like their own pockets are hit in any way by increasing prices.

The hotel prices reflect demand. Ergo tourism can’t really be affected by high prices because causality runs the other way - tourist demand fuels high prices. If tourism levels drop hotel prices fall.

Or if room supply increases. That’s the other more favourable option. Luckily Dublin has 79 hotels in the pipeline.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 14-10-2018 10:29PM

murpho999 wrote: »

In no particular order:

Trinity College
Book of Kells
Christchurch Cathedral
Dublin Castle
Phoenix Park
GPO
St Patrick's Cathedral
The National Gallery
The National Library
Chester Beatty Library
National Botanic Gardens
Marsh's Library
Kimainham Jail
Richmond Barracks
Collin's Barracks National Museurm
The Little Museum of Dublin

There's tons of stuff to see and do in Dublin.

And you haven’t left the inner city yet, and visited howth, Dalkey etc. Or taken a bay cruise. Or kite surfed on bull island. Or visited newgrange.

Frankly city tours aren’t always about a city. I met a group of young American tourists in their twenties in howth last year who on a 4 day trip from London (where two of them worked) were having a great time in Dublin, including howth itself, the Wicklow mountains, the city centre ... and the day trip to the game of thrones sets.

Only one full day in the centre then and the latter is in a different country of course but it’s a 2 hour ish bus trip. Like going to Vegas and visiting the canyon. Every night was spent in Dublin.

endacl · 14-10-2018 10:37PM

Kneemos watches Top Ten list videos on YouTube.

He comes out of this thread worse than Dublin.

wakka12 · 14-10-2018 10:41PM

He didnt say Dublin sucked, he said it was fun and beautiful and historic but just not worth the insane prices, which I agree with

Dublin has a lot going for it but the prices are crazy, theres so many other great places in europe to visit for so much more affordable prices, I dont get how dublin has such a booming tourist industry

tonycascarino · 14-10-2018 10:42PM

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

We find it way too easy to bash our own places. There are much much more worse places to visit in Europe never mind the world.

Dublin is grand to visit but crap to live in.

MikeyTaylor · 14-10-2018 10:47PM

tonycascarino wrote: »

Dublin is grand to visit but crap to live in.

Totally agree!

wakka12 · 14-10-2018 10:48PM

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Couldnt call any of those fantastic, amazing, or great.
Compared to other cities (there must be dozens of cities even just in Europe that are easily more interesting), Dublin has little to recommend it. I would never suggest to foreigners to visit it, and even when some work colleagues from abroad are here and looking for advice on what to see around Dublin, its a bit embarrassing how there is so little for them to see or do.
Having said that, its not a bad city to live in, but for tourism, I would rate it right down there with the likes of Birmingham or Stuttgart.

I think you dont know anything about Dublin tbh if you think that. Did you take advantage of the any of the many hundreds of fascinating places around the city open this weekend for open house? And yes theres plenty more interesting cities across europe but think about how many cities in the americas and asia that are completely soulless concrete jungles, thats what most poeples lives are like, so dublin is an interesting city by world standards, maybe just average in west european context, which is a high standard

Arghus · 14-10-2018 10:49PM

I've only been to five locations in my life.

They were all fairly nice.

wakka12 · 14-10-2018 10:56PM

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

I regularly meet my German girlfriend in Dublin for a weekend or a few days and have had very enjoyable weekends. For me coming from Clare the price of drink in the tourist areas is a joke but I’m fairly used to it having been to the likes of Oslo and Paris which are pretty much double what you pay in Dublin.

Plenty to do and see in Dublin.
Bike ride around Phoenix Park
Glasnevin cemetery and botanical gardens
Epic immigration museum
Kilmainom Gaol
Little museum of Dublin.

We find it way too easy to bash our own places. There are much much more worse places to visit in Europe never mind the world.

Theres a lot of underrated gems around Dublin, I just got to visit Mckee barracks yesterday on a guided tour, a huge perfectly preserved barracks complex dating from late 19th C, and probably most people in Dublin never even heard of it, just one example, but dublin has many other really interesting buildings and historic sites that are not well known at all

Its by phoenix park

Dublin has a fascinating history, and much of it still survives today

Franz Von Peppercorn · 15-10-2018 10:48AM

tonycascarino wrote: »

Dublin is grand to visit but crap to live in.

That’s closer to the truth.

namloc1980 · 15-10-2018 11:02AM

O'Connell Street is a complete kip. And DCC with their weird intolerance of tall buildings has made a complete low rise mess of the docklands renewal with row after row of glass 4-6 storey glass boxes with literally 1 or 2 exceptions. It's the strange vibe on the street that puts me off Dublin the most. Probably all the scrotes and junkies hanging around.

Top ten places that suck.

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