Sleeping in Dublin can be expensive: by choosing an apartment in Blackrock, a suburb in the south of the city, you will easily move around the city center and save a lot. Maybe choosing a beautiful Victorian home!
Blackrock is a suburb of Dublin: a residential and seaside area south of the city. If you choose to sleeping in Blackrock, you will be immediately struck by the splendid view over Dublin Bay. This choice will allow you to visit the center of Dublin, with all its many attractions, parks, museums, but at the same time wake up in the morning sipping a cup of coffee facing the sea, in total relaxation.
In fact, in Blackrock there are many houses to choose from, often they are really suggestive Victorian villas, with old knick-knacks and radios inside, wooden floors that creak to surround the atmosphere. The common point that these houses have is being overlooking the sea: a view you will not forget, both during the day and at sunset. Even on windy and rainy days (which happens frequently in Dublin), this view will captivate you.
So here are three good reasons to sleep in Blackrock during your Dublin vacation
1. Convenience: moving with the Dart from Blackrock Station
Dublin's rail transport service: The Dart, is very convenient and has a stop right at Blackrock. In 10-15 minutes maximum you will be in Dublin city center, not bad right?
By choosing this neighborhood as a starting point for your travels, you will certainly save a lot. In fact, staying in the center of Dublin, perhaps in a hotel, can be very expensive.
From Blackrock you can also organize your day trips: for example to the nearby Monkstown, Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey.
2. Authenticity: blend in with the locals
The risk, when visiting a famous city like Dublin, is that of not being able to fully immerse yourself in the purest atmosphere that all places can offer, often making the mistake of doing only tourist things. By choosing instead to stay in a more decentralized place, you will feel like living days closer to the everyday life of those who live there, you will discover a series of places frequented by the locals and it will also be easier to chat with those who live in Dublin throughout the arc of the year.
In Blackrock you will be in a quiet place but still full of shops, shopping streets and entire shopping centers: such as the Frascati Center and the Blackrock Shopping Center.
There is also a very large and particular covered market, open during the weekend: here you can discover antiques, typical food and even gourmet.
3. Great places for the evening
In this suburb of Dublin you will have a wide choice of places and restaurants to dine in. If you do not want to go around the center of Dublin even in the evening, but prefer a quiet evening, perhaps with your family (Blackrock is in fact the perfect place for those traveling with children), Blackrock will certainly not disappoint you. .
You can choose from classic Irish pubs: well-kept, cheerful and full of tradition. For example the O'Rourkes, where James Joyce is thought to go regularly. Here you can drink yours pint of Guinness, eat yours Irish Stew and spend a perfect typically Irish evening.
Avoca Bar it is instead an alternative to the classic pub: the place has a nice terrace, if the weather permits it will be great to enjoy a drink while sitting quietly watching the passage of life in the neighborhood. Locals precisely, who return home, do the shopping, ride their bikes, go for a run. Stop by one of the numerous supermarkets in the suburb: small but well-stocked. Take a look at the offers of the day, buy the ingredients for a home dinner: it is the best way to feel fully immersed in the spirit of the place.
When staying in Dublin city center it is not easy to find low cost apartments that are also functional and comfortable, in Blackrock you can even choose an old Victorian house on the waterfront!
