Best Way to get from Dublin to Cork?

Dragons Revenge

I'm a silly Yank going to school in Dublin in a couple weeks and I wanna know the best way to get out to cork from Dublin. Let's say I have a couple days off during the week and I want to do an overnighter in Cork (or Kerry) what's the best way to do so?

Thanks!

irishdub14

Dublin to Cork?? M50 and then M8 maybe......??!! lol

Try www.openstreetmap.com... it shows all the motorways and n roads from dublin to cork and everywhere else....

Dragons Revenge

I was kinda thinking more along the lines of buses and trains, actually.

wilson10

The Train is the way to go.

http://www.irishrail.ie

Cool Mo D

Dragons Revenge wrote: »

I'm a silly Yank going to school in Dublin in a couple weeks and I wanna know the best way to get out to cork from Dublin. Let's say I have a couple days off during the week and I want to do an overnighter in Cork (or Kerry) what's the best way to do so?

Thanks!

The train will get you to Cork city, or Killarney or Tralee in Kerry (I'd recommend Killarney). It is quite expensive though - it's about €70 return if you turn up and pay at the station. But if you're a student, with a student travel card, it'll be about half that. It's about 2hr45 to cork, and 3h20mins to Killarney on the train. If you book in advance online, and travel off peak, you can get a Dublin - Cork return for €20 - but the times may not suit.

The bus is much cheaper - around €20 standard fare, but takes much longer - around 4 hours Dublin - Cork.

Try http://irishrail.ie/home/ or
http://www.buseireann.ie/

EI111

ryanair 14 euro return

copacetic

as noted above you can often get a flight for much cheaper than the train and save yourself a fair bit of time also.

Cool Mo D

copacetic wrote: »

as noted above you can often get a flight for much cheaper than the train and save yourself a fair bit of time also.

If the flight is cheaper, you will save money, but you def won't save any time - it'll take an hour to get to the airport from the centre, to be an hour early for your flight, which will take half an hour, and you need to get to Cork from the airport too. And it's €14 one way - same price as a student on the train, and more than the bus.

Dragons Revenge

Cool Mo D wrote: »

If the flight is cheaper, you will save money, but you def won't save any time - it'll take an hour to get to the airport from the centre, to be an hour early for your flight, which will take half an hour, and you need to get to Cork from the airport too. And it's €14 one way - same price as a student on the train, and more than the bus.

Plus I would kinda like to take the scenic route and do stupid American touristy things like ogle the sights and take pictures and stuff.

20 return for students? That's not bad at all.

copacetic

Cool Mo D wrote: »

If the flight is cheaper, you will save money, but you def won't save any time - it'll take an hour to get to the airport from the centre, to be an hour early for your flight, which will take half an hour, and you need to get to Cork from the airport too. And it's €14 one way - same price as a student on the train, and more than the bus.

you don't have to be an hour early for these flights in my experience, 30 mins at most. So you can get from Dublin city centre to Cork city centre in less than 2 hours, but you are right on the other ones, it depends how much time you have available.

Dragons Revenge

Unless I looked wrong, a standard return ticket from Dublin to Cork was 46 eu with the student discount... That was from 9 feb thru the 11th.

RPUinspector

check out this link there are a limited number of €2 fares available on Bus Éireann services !!!!

RPUinspector

www.twitter.com/buseireanndeals.
forgot to include the link :eek:

mtkenne2

would really appreciate it