An unbeatable, pocket-sized guide to Dublin, packed with insider tips and ideas, colour maps, top 10 lists, and a laminated pull-out map - all designed to help you see the very best of Dublin.
Explore the myriad collections of the National Museum of Ireland, admire majestic Trinity College, immerse yourself in history at EPIC Ireland or GPO Witness History, or spend an evening in the lively Temple bar district. From Top 10 performing arts venues to the Top 10 things to do for free - this easy-to-use travel guide is packed with information to help you discover the very best of Dublin.
Inside Top 10 Dublin: - Five easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week - Top 10 lists showcase Dublin's best attractions, covering Trinity College, National Gallery of Ireland, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Castle and more - Free laminated pull-out map of Dublin, plus eleven colour neighbourhood maps - In-depth neighbourhood guides explore Dublin's most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, going out and sightseeing - Colour-coded chapters divided by area make it easy to find information quickly and plan your day - Essential travel tips including our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop and sightsee, plus useful transport, visa and health information - Colour maps help you navigate with ease - Covers North of the Liffey, South of the Liffey, Greater Dublin, the Wicklow Mountains and more
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About DK Eyewitness Travel: DK's Top 10 guides take the work out of planning a short trip, with easy-to-read maps, tips and tours to inform and enrich your weekend trip or cultural break. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.
Useful, practical, accurate -- that's enough for 3 stars. This was a very practical guidebook that fit inside my jacket pocket, so it was the guidebook I carried around with me in Dublin. I find these 8x4 inch guidebooks very useful for quick reference during the trip, but less useful for reading in advance. The Rick Steves guidebook helped me decide my must-see sights in Dublin, this one helped me find them.
I often buy this guidebook for trips to new cities, and usually read their top 10 lists (best history, best shopping, best local experience, best with kids, etc.) while planning to the trip. Honestly, their descriptions are so brief that it is hard to use them to plan, but they do sometimes suggest something everyone else skips. But once having decided to do something, this is a very useful guide for getting there, both because of the useful maps and because it has a commitment to providing a picture of everything to help you recognize it. And, reading a series of listicles on a place does stick in my mind enough for there to be several times when visiting, for example, the National Museums, that I realized one of the parks they mentioned was right across the street, or that I was passing a shop they recommended.
Somewhat helpful, but with fairly limited info. It makes for a good starting point, but kind of just gives you ideas to further research; it's definitely not terribly useful on its own. It's fairly well organized though, and includes top 10 lists not only for Dublin, but for other parts of the country as well.
When you want to visit Dublin and have no idea what to do, this is a nice book to have a look in. I found some things I want to see when we are there. But I have visited Dublin before and I was hoping to find something new, something I didn't see before and would like to explore. Didn't find that, it is more the usual sightseeing things in this book
The Top 10 series are really my favourite for travel. They give you the essential information in a presentable fashion and are just what you need if you are visiting somewhere or need to find out about a place quickly.
We're certainly not in "Lonely Planet" territory, but it's a suitably functional and informative quick-and-dirty guide to Dublin. If you want depth, you'll have to look elsewhere.