About Dublin Tourism Guide
Dublin Tourism Guide is an independent reference site about visiting Dublin. It is not a booking agency, a tour operator, or a tourist board, and it has no commercial relationship with any hotel, pub, restaurant or attraction described on it.
Why this site exists
Dublin is a small city that is written about badly. Most of what ranks for “things to do in Dublin” is a list of twelve places, eleven of which are within four hundred metres of each other on Temple Bar, priced in a currency the writer guessed at and open at hours nobody checked. Meanwhile the questions people actually arrive with — whether a Leap Card is worth it for four days, whether Kilmainham Gaol tickets really do sell out three weeks ahead, how to reach the Cliffs of Moher and back before dark, what a pint costs north of the Liffey versus south of it — get answered in a sentence or not at all.
This site takes the opposite approach. Each guide is long because the question is genuinely complicated, and it tries to finish the thought rather than stopping at the point where a listicle would.
What is on the site
There are 133 published guides, organised into sixteen sections: things to do, where to stay, food and restaurants, itineraries and trip planning, day trips, nightlife and pubs, transport, events and festivals, travel tips, budget travel, history and literary heritage, families and children, neighbourhoods, shopping and markets, and luxury Dublin.
Guides run to roughly three thousand words each. That length is not padding — it is what it takes to cover, for instance, the actual difference between the Guinness Storehouse and the Teeling and Jameson distillery tours, or to work through a Dublin itinerary that accounts for the fact that the National Museum branches close on Mondays.
How the research is done
Opening hours, admission prices, transport fares and booking rules are taken from the operator’s own website or from the relevant public body — the Office of Public Works for the heritage sites, Transport for Ireland and the National Transport Authority for fares and timetables, Fáilte Ireland and Dublin City Council for events. Where an operator and a third-party listing disagree, the operator wins.
Prices are given in euro and dated, because Dublin is expensive and moves quickly. Restaurant and pub coverage weighs published reviews, awards and the venue’s own menus rather than pretending to a single visit that would be out of date by the time you read it.
Spelling and terminology follow Irish usage. Neighbourhoods, not neighborhoods. The Luas is a tram, the DART is a train, and nobody in Dublin calls Grafton Street a “high street”.
Who writes it
The site is written and edited by Joseph Maxwell, who is responsible for everything published here, including its mistakes. There is no editorial committee and no undisclosed contributor network — one person researches, writes and checks the guides.
What this site does not do
No paid placements. No business has paid to appear in a guide, to be ranked higher within one, or to have a competitor left out, and there is no arrangement under which that could be bought. No sponsored posts are accepted.
The site is funded by third-party display advertising. The ads are chosen by an advertising network rather than by us, cannot be bought by a business in exchange for editorial coverage, and are clearly distinguishable from the guides.
Corrections
A price changes, a museum shortens its winter hours, a pub closes. If you find something out of date or wrong, the contact page is the fastest way to say so, and corrections are made ahead of anything else in the queue.