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Is Holyhead a nice place?

  • 12-12-2014 12:18AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭


    I was thinking of going there on these Stena Line Christmas deals..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    No


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    Absolute s**thole. The best thing about Holyhead is the road out of it. (or the ferry)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    You should suggest it as a quality destination to this loon...
    “Loved It, Would Love To Go Back”
    Reviewed 1 September 2011

    After booking a week off work to both recover from a trip to a music festival and celebrate my birthday, I decided I may as well spend the week somewhere a bit different. So I booked four nights in Travelodge in Ballymun
    http://www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowUserReviews-g186605-d634898-r117525957-Travelodge_Dublin_Airport_Ballymun-Dublin_County_Dublin.html#CHECK_RATES_CONT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    It's a kip.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Nothing wrong with it. Its like a Welch Sligo. Wales is nice.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Slicemeister


    Unless you're a Nolans driver, keep the foot down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Its like Dolphins Barn on Dublins southside, only worse. Which is quite a feat


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    Absolute s**thole. The best thing about Holyhead is the road out of it. (or the ferry)

    Ah it cant be that bad surely?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    I live in Wales, Holyhead is a hole...the definition of a port town.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Whosthis


    Absolute kip, you'd be lucky to entertain yourself there for 20 minutes. Chester is about an hour and a half away on the train, nice town and a few things to do, feasible for a day trip.


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  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There's a 'Village Of The Damned' quality about Holyhead.

    It's like Cavan but worse and Welsh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    I live in Wales, Holyhead is a hole...the definition of a port town.

    I heard the folks arw quite friendly and some scenery?


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had a Wale of a time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    There's a pound shop, a chippers and fifty pubs. Kip. There's a reason they put two exits - sea and road. It was a demand led decision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Its not QUITE that bad, but it's pretty grim in winter. I mean, it is a tiny remote country town.

    In summer it can be an attractive little place with some nice scenery around and a couple of excellent beaches nearby. For a few days. In sunshine. Christmas in Holyhead sounds like a nightmare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    DON'T....EVEN...THINK..ABOUT..IT


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    Ah it cant be that bad surely?

    Ive known countless people who have gone there with expectations of it being some kind of seaside oasis and been bitterly disappointed. Get the train to Bangor if your going which is a decent town about 30 mins away. All in all not a huge fan of North Wales. It has a grim feeling about it and feels like its stuck in the 60s:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    Absolute s**thole. The best thing about Holyhead is the road out of it. (or the ferry)

    Ah it cant be that bad surely?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Whosthis


    There's a pound shop, a chippers and fifty pubs. Kip. There's a reason they put two exits - sea and road. It was a demand led decision.

    Don't forget the Santander with the ATM that smells like piss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    save yourself the trip and just go to Dun Laoghaire, it's even slightly nicer tbh, not much but slightly.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    There's a pound shop, a chippers and fifty pubs. Kip. There's a reason they put two exits - sea and road. It was a demand led decision.

    And they have a Lidl now too outside the ferryport. Great for the cheap cans to temporarily drown out the depression of being in such a kip and pass the time;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    Whosthis wrote: »
    Don't forget the Santander with the ATM that smells like piss.

    Not many positive words so far :v


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭poisonated


    I would not recommend. I have been in the port for about 2 or 3 hours at a time and even that is too much!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    Whosthis wrote: »
    Don't forget the Santander with the ATM that smells like piss.

    Not many positive words so far :v


  • Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Go to Chester, a place I know very well (used to live there for a year and a bit)!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Ive known countless people who have gone there with expectations of it being some kind of seaside oasis and been bitterly disappointed. Get the train to Bangor if your going which is a decent town about 30 mins away. All in all not a huge fan of North Wales. It has a grim feeling about it and feels like its stuck in the 60s:pac:

    Thanks to Maggie thatcher.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Ah it cant be that bad surely?
    I like North Wales. Except for Holyhead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Ive known countless people who have gone there with expectations of it being some kind of seaside oasis and been bitterly disappointed. Get the train to Bangor if your going which is a decent town about 30 mins away. All in all not a huge fan of North Wales. It has a grim feeling about it and feels like its stuck in the 60s


    You're know you're scrapping the barrel when Bangor is described as a decent town in comparison.

    Very accurate description of N Wales too...the abandoned slate mines and grey houses do nothing for the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    poisonated wrote: »
    I would not recommend. I have been in the port for about 2 or 3 hours at a time and even that is too much!

    I was stranded there for 30 hours in the middle of winter with nowhere to stay. I haven't been the same since.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Whosthis


    Grim, this was probably snapped at lunchtime on a Saturday, even managed to get the ATM in.

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3100884,-4.6333324,3a,75y,357.55h,89.83t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s8d_6HIz_AqCyxWoWdYGUmw!2e0?hl=en


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