Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => General Chat => Topic started by: suspectmonkey on October 10, 2011
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Was thinking of a weekend getaway at the end of the month. Fancy somewhere like Connemara and was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for guest houses or B&B's there? Any other ideas (that don't involve camping for a change!) would be very welcome :)
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Eh? Not sure I understand :o
(that don't involve camping for a change!)
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Sometimes you just need a bit of luxury... and I don't mean bringing a firelog on a summit bivvy ;)
Eh? Not sure I understand :o
(that don't involve camping for a change!)
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Assuming you are talking a long weekend then Doolin, Co. Clare (http://www.doolin-tourism.com/index.html) could be your spot. Cliffs of Moher, Aran Islands and The Burren, the some of best traditional music music on the island, you could do a lot worse. The place is buzzing with people and there is a great choice of accomodation. I stayed in a youth hostel when I was there.
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Assuming you are talking a long weekend then Doolin, Co. Clare (http://www.doolin-tourism.com/index.html) could be your spot. Cliffs of Moher, Aran Islands and The Burren, the some of best traditional music music on the island, you could do a lot worse. The place is buzzing with people and there is a great choice of accomodation. I stayed in a youth hostel when I was there.
Good idea, the Cliffs of Moher have been on my "to-do" list for a while now! Will look into that. What was the name of the hostel you stayed in?
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I don't recall off-hand but the Doolin Hostel one on the accomodation section on that link I inserted looks like it...it was a while ago. I see lots of the hostels offer double en-suite rooms.
Inishmore, the largest of the Arran Islands is the actual Craggy Island and hosts an annual TedFest (http://www.tedfest.org/tedfest6.php?Action=Tedfest6). There are much simpler pleasures to be found in cycling round the island and visiting the Dun Aengus fort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAn_Aonghasa).
That is only my experience of the area, I'm sure there are lots of other things to do.
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Aille River Hostel is great. Very friendly, comfortable and big roaring fire. I think they do private double rooms too.
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I stayed in a old coast guard place on the Skye Road in Clifton. Close to National park - 12 Bens etc.