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We're interested in staying here - do you have any experience with this place?  We're hoping it's non-smoking, near town, friendly, good food, etc.  Thanks!

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I stayed at Beechwood House myself in May. It is a fantastic B&B. It is everything you want and more. Very clean, friendly hosts, no smoking, elegant decor and great breakfast. Everything was just perfect. I will have a complete description of it in my 2006 book.


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Hi Michele, I have a question too about Beechwood house in Malahide. Can you remind me how far they are from the Dublin airport, in morning traffic on a weekend in July?

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Beechwood is perhaps 15 to 20 minutes away from the airport. On a weekend you won't have the usual rush-hour weekday traffic to contend with. But you should give yourself at least 30 minutes to get to the airport. Better to err on the side of caution when catching a flight.


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Michele, thanks for the tip on driving time from Malahide to airport.

Did you visit Howth as well, and do you have any comparisons of Howth vs. Malahide? For a last night in Ireland? With tree-starved biologist hubby and young adult daughters who will probably want one last pub visit before flying home the next day? And me, I'll be already working on my second trip to Ireland, before I get home!

-- Edited by Melissa5 at 18:55, 2005-12-15

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Melissa,


Malahide is a bit bigger than Howth and consequently has more options when it comes to pubs and restaurants, etc. That is not to say that Malahide is a big city or even has a feeling of the Dublin burbs. It is called Malahide Village and does have a village feel to it. It is also a bit closer to Dublin Airport and has easier access to the airport in the morning. But Howth is nice too. Decisions, decisions!


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Michele, thanks for the info on Malahide and Howth. I will have 1 or 2 nights near Dublin airport at the end of our trip (depending on whether we stay in Westport for 2 or 3 nights). It looks like either Malahide or Dublin city centre is the best choice for us. I would sleep better in Malahide and we would be closer to the airport. But my daughters might enjoy being in dublin city centre. On the other hand since I've chosen to let the family stay in Westport city centre, I might just choose Malahide and Beechwood House for the end of our trip. I try to get a balance on our trips and make sure there is something for everyone.

Thanks to the original anonymous poster for posting this question! Good luck with your decision as well.

I had my heart set on 3 nights in County Mayo, but now that we'll be staying right in Westport city centre on a busy weekend in July, I'm wondering if I should reduce that to only 2 nights. But we would lose sight-seeing time...We wanted to see whatever we could fit in from this list: Killary Harbor; Achill island; Clare island; Kylemore abbey; plus whatever we happen to discover. Plus we just want to wander around Westport town, shop, and visit the pubs for music. I don't expect to see all those sights, even if we had 3 nights, but I like to start out with a nice full "wish list" and then prioritize it. We all know we may only see 1 or 2 of those choices.

I think I should probably keep the original 3 nights in Westport just like I planned. but I'm not sure. I will be e-mailing either the Wyatt or else the Olde Railway in Westport...

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Melissa,


I added my comments under your subject Westport, County Mayo Accomodations.


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Hi Michelle, thanks for your comments about Beechwood house which I am sure have helped lots of people. I have 1 night near Dublin airport to book at end of trip. Beechwood sounds great, with very nice hosts (and those Irish accents!) and you say about a 20-minute drive to airport in morning (on a Saturday in July.) Do you think this is my best option? You also have other recommendations near Dublin airport. We won't be getting to the guesthouse til the afternoon most likely. (I think we will spend the morning at Ulster folk and transport museum before driving down from Belfast area to near Dublin.)

I am already feeling sad about leaving Ireland and haven't even arrived yet. I will want a nice memorable finish. Is Beechwood the best bet near airport for us, do you think?

You have recommended some nice moderately priced restaurants in Malahide and a pub in your book, many thanks!

Your fan,
Melissa (mostly Irish by now!)

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Of all the places in my book in the Dublin Airport area I like Beechwood the best. I stayed there in May 2005 and it will be listed in my 2006 book. It is really elegant and breakfast was great. You can't go wrong by staying there. I highly recommend it.


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Michelle, okay, Beechwood it is then. Since it is "elegant" as you say, can we still dress casual or will we feel out of place? Jeans or casual pants, casual walking shoes, t-shirts and sweat-shirts or sweaters? Is that okay? Thanks very much.

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Melissa,


Take the tux and ballgown out of your suitcase right now!  You can wear whatever casual clothes you want and be right at home at Beechwood.


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Whew, I'm so glad, because that ball-gown was taking up my entire suitcase and I didn't have any room for even undergarments or socks!

Thanks, Michelle, for answering my questions, big and small.

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Melissa,


Now you have room for your toothbrush!


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MIchelle, that toothbrush might come in handy considering my secret plan to persuade hubby that he needs a second trip to Ireland...

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Hmmmm....Melissa are you just planning on fresh breath or something kinky??   This is really getting interesting now.


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Michelle, I love the emoticons and I always wondered what it takes to get banned here! I feel quite honored, except that I cannot find any mention of a toothbrush anywhere in my Irish Manual of Marital Persuasion Techniques (IMMPT).

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Melissa,


This is one of the funniest Irish "marital" manuals ever: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312094302/qid=1137629634/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/102-0846478-2349723?n=507846&s=books&v=glance


All the pages are totally blank!


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Michele - Funny !



Melissa - I realize your plan has changed, but how were you planning to get into the sites in Dublin from Malhide? Taxi ? Just curious in case I opt to stay there or thereabouts.

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Michelle, where do you find these things? I can't believe such a book exists, wow, why didn't we think of it first?!

IRISH EYES: If I was staying in Malahide as a base for visiting Dublin, I would have taken the train into Dublin. I am up past my bedtime and cannot remember if it's called a train or a subway or what right now, Michelle will know. But there's definitely a train-type transportation that goes from Malahide into Dublin. Dublin is rather noisy for sleeping, it seems to me, after researching accomodations. I was thinking of staying in dublin at Kilronan house b&b, which is on a relatively quiet street, but I don't think Dublin ever sleeps... But now we won't be seeing Dublin, as you noticed our plan has changed. I hope to have a second trip to Ireland someday, in a shoulder season like May or September, and then I hope to have a couple of days to explore Dublin.
Wait, my brain is awakening, is that train called the DART? Wow, I really need to go back to bed. Maybe I can edit this pitiful paragraph tomorrow with a rested brain!

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Melissa,


I actually saw that book at a local bookstore a few years ago. I picked it up and flipped through it and burst out laughing. I'm sure everyone around thought I had lost it. What a brilliant idea. If you read the reviews some people did not have a sense of humor about it. Yes, I wish I had thought of it! A perfect joke book. Or you could buy it and keep your Irish journal in it!!


It is DART that goes from Malahide to Dublin: http://www.iarnrodeireann.ie/dart/home/


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Michelle, I do need to buy a journal for my Irish trip, that one might be a bit embarassing to take down to the conservatory with me in my b&b though! At least it would might be a conversation-starter!

Irisheyes, see, now you know you can stay in Malahide if you want and Dart into Dublin. Although sometimes it's fun to stay in a city close to the sites and just walk out of your hotel, without having to worry about transportation. Which will you choose?

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Melissa,

Hubby prefers to stay in the city centre, so that's the plan. AND DRUM ROLL PLEASE..... we just purchased our tickets today! We're very excited! I'm sure that will mean I'll be hangin' out here with you and the other forum friends for another 6 - 7 months. How cool is that?? I'm going to start checking for rooms in Dublin right away. I've jotted down some suggestions (thanks again Michele!) and plan to be in Dublin during the week , so hopefully it will be a bit easier and less crowded than a weekend.

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Irisheyes,


Congratulations on getting your tickets! That makes the whole trip seem real now, doesn't it? It sounds like staying in the city center of Dublin will work out well for your trip. Everyone has different needs. One tip when looking for hotels is to click on "special offers" on their sites to check out mid-week stays. If you stay 2 or 3 days the rates are generally less and may even include dinner one night.


Let the planning (and fun) begin.


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Irisheyes, hip hip hurray, you got your airline tickets! Now we gotta celebrate. Isn't it exciting? Or if you don't drink we can have coffee I am looking forward to hanging out here with you and planning our trips. and of course picking Michelle's brain.

Dude, come join us, will you have or coffee? Tea? Michelle what will you have?

Everybody here is very nice and the experienced Ireland travellers always have a lot to share, thanks everybody.

Irisheyes, I will be interested in hearing which hotel/b&b you pick for your Dublin visit. I was just looking at a picture book of Ireland today and regretting we won't see dublin until our next visit. (After I have completed all my persuasion techniques on hubby who was hard to talk into a first visit.)

Are you going to Ireland in June, irisheyes? We're going in July. If you want to read my Dublin question on fodors.com travel talk, it's called "DUBLIN: a "MUST-SEE" or a WASTE of time?", and has a lot of answers, a lot of tips. However I don't know how far down it's fallen, I'll go there and bump it up to the top for you. While you are over there, be sure to lure nice people back here with you to join us. If you don't come back, I'm going to go over there and get you, because we would miss you! Michelle's site here is the friendliest one I've found, and Michelle is really an Ireland expert, so I always come back here, but I like to explore everywhere. I feel at home here, though.

Irisheyes, maybe you can post a question here about Dublin so I (and others) can enjoy arm-chair travel to Dublin with you. Oh by the way after all my research on Dublin I would answer my own question by stating that Dublin is definitely a Must-See and is clearly NOT a waste of time, but it is just too much for our first visit, I think it deserves a visit of 2 full days spent in dublin, and that is what I hope to plan for my second trip to Ireland, after we finish our first trip, and after I read your lovely trip report on Dublin!!!

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Tea, please, and a scone or slice of apple tart. While we're on the road, we can stop for petrol and get a Dr. Pepper (believe it or not) and a Cadbury's with hazlenuts. If I'm not driving I'll have an ale; don't care for beer or stout.

For breakfast, bacon and toast or homemade bread and a piece of fruit; sometimes a bowl of meusli . No pudding, please, and I don't eat eggs. A cup of yogurt for "dessert."

For lunch, let's stop at a little bodega or supermart and get some bread, cheese and fruit and have a picnic somewhere along the road. And a packet of biscuits (cookies) for snacks.

I am totally hooked on meusli since trying it in Ireland, and have scoured south Texas looking for hazlenut yogurt but apparently it doesn't exist here. The meusli I like is imported from Switzerland. I'm amazed that it's available here in Texas.

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Dude, I have to go for an exercise walk because of all the arm-chair travel calories I've consumed tasting everything you bought at the little bodega (is that Irish for little supermarket?) not to mention the bacon which was sinfully delicious.

Mark, are you coming? Anybody else? We're celebrating the official purchase of irisheyes' airline tickets to Ireland. Well as long as this is armchair travel I will try an Irish whiskey, which I think in real life would be way too potent for me. I'm strictly a one-glass-of-wine-and-she's-drunk kind of gal. Dude you can drive.

Or how about a bowl of Irish oatmeal with a shot of Irish whiskey and some cream from a Kerry cow?

Okay does anybody know where we're going? I vote for Feakle, I think it was Mark who discovered Feakle. We're going to Feakle with a picnic from the bodega. What are we going to do in Feakle to celebrate? I found them on the web-site Mark recommended, they have an award-winning music pub. It's a good site, you can find out which days of the week different pubs have their music sessions. Now what was that web-site... www.irishmusicbars.com...(See Mark's recommendations.)

Dude, no pudding? Have you tried black pudding? Should I try it?

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Oh, come on, Melissa, you're from California! Bodega is Spanish! In south Texas, anyway, it refers to a corner store, or Mom & Pop grocery. Anyway, that's where we'll get our picnic goodies.

And what the Irish call bacon is what we would call ham; I think what we call bacon is called streaky bacon there.

You really must try the puddings--black is made with blood; I'm not sure what white come from but I'm not trusting those sneaky Irishnot to put in something equally disgusting!!!! Honestly, making something from blood and calling it something tasty like pudding! Actually, it's a bulk sausage-y sort of thing in patties, but it does have blood in it.

Let's get a bottle of Bailey's and sip it around the peat fire at the thatched cottage. I know of one just outside of Galway. Maybe there's one near Feakle.

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Melissa, Dude & Irisheyes,


Since it is happy hour here in Atlanta I will join you with a pint of Smithwick's and some cheese and onion Taytos.


For the picnic I think we should go down to Loop Head and take a nice blanket to spread out on the grass and wildflowers. How about smoked salmon sandwiches, Taytos, Club orange and some profiteroles for dessert? If my husband is along he will bring Butler's chocolate truffle bars and Cadbury orange biscuits or perhaps millionaire bars. We can lie on the blanket and listen to the ocean and birds while we have a little nap after lunch in the sunshine. Once we feel energetic again we can take a walk all around the cliffs and headland and admire the lighthouse. On the way back to our B&B we must stop along the way for a whipped ice.


Next morning at breakfast you must try the bacon at Bunratty Lodge. It really is the best.


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"What are we going to do in Feakle to celebrate?"


Wednesday night at Pepper's Bar to watch Mark Donnellan play the fiddle!


Oh and I'll have a Guinness of course!


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