About This Tour
If you’re spending a few days in Dublin and planning to hit several of the big attractions, the Go City Dublin Pass can take a decent chunk of money off what you’d pay at the gate. You choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 days of validity and get into more than 35 of Dublin’s top spots on a single digital pass - everything from the Guinness Storehouse and Dublin Castle to Jameson Distillery, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, and a full-day hop-on hop-off bus tour with Big Bus Dublin.
The pass is entirely digital, so you just show it on your phone at each attraction. A complimentary digital guidebook comes with it to help you work out the best order to visit things. A word of advice: book the Guinness Storehouse in advance through the app after purchase - it’s popular and can fill up, especially at weekends.
What’s Included
- Free 1-day hop-on hop-off sightseeing tour (Big Bus Dublin)
- Free Dublin digital guide
- Digital pass valid for the number of days chosen
What’s Not Included
- Food and drinks, except special offers noted in the digital guide
Itinerary
Here’s a sample of what the pass covers:
- Big Bus Dublin 1-Day Hop-On Hop-Off - Open-top, double-decker buses covering Dublin’s famous sights, valid for a full day. (up to 720 min)
- Guinness Storehouse - Seven floors tracing the world-famous stout from grain to glass, finishing with a pint at the panoramic Gravity Bar. Note: advance reservations are required - follow the instructions in the digital guide and Go City app. (180 min)
- Christ Church Cathedral - Dublin’s oldest building, with fascinating artefacts, gothic architecture and entry to the Treasures of Christ Church exhibition. (120 min)
- Dublin Castle - Explore the original Viking fortress, remains of the 13th-century castle and the magnificent State Apartments - the venue for Presidential Inaugurations and Ireland’s EU Presidencies. (120 min)
- Jameson Distillery Bow St. - A guided tour of the original distillery buildings. You’ll touch, smell and taste Jameson along the way. (45 min)
- Saint Patrick’s Cathedral - One of Dublin’s most important historic landmarks, built in honour of Ireland’s patron saint. (120 min)
- EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - Twenty interactive galleries exploring the Irish diaspora and what it means to be Irish, complete with touchscreens, motion-sensor games, audio and video. (120 min)
- Newbridge House - Three centuries of Irish history on a guided tour, taking in unrivalled artwork collections and original furnishings. (50 min)
- Jeannie Johnston Famine Ship Museum - A guided tour of a tall ship that carried migrants to North America, with artefacts and personal accounts from those who made the journey. (50 min)
- Malahide Castle & Gardens - A magnificent 12th-century castle on the north Dublin coast with guided tours and beautiful gardens. (120 min)
- The Teeling Whiskey Distillery - A grain-to-glass tour of Dublin’s working whiskey distillery. (60 min)
- Dublinia - Interactive exhibitions on Viking Dublin and Medieval Dublin, bringing the city’s early history to life. (120 min)
- Skerries Mills with Cream Tea - A guided tour of 16th-century mills with a chance to try grinding flour yourself, finishing with cream tea. (50 min)
- GPO Museum - One of the oldest working postal headquarters in the world and a key site in the 1916 Easter Rising story. (120 min)
- The Irish Rock ‘n’ Roll Museum Experience - The story of the Irish music scene, with exclusive memorabilia, working rehearsal rooms and recording facilities in Temple Bar. (75 min)
Good to Know
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transport options nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Available in German, English, Italian, French and Spanish
Local Tips
Plan your days before you arrive, not after. The digital guidebook is genuinely useful, but the pass works best if you’ve thought about clusters of attractions by neighbourhood. The Guinness Storehouse, Teeling Distillery, and Dublinia are all within reach of each other on the south-west side of the city. EPIC, the Jeannie Johnston, and the GPO are all near the quays. Grouping by area saves a lot of time on foot.
Book the Guinness Storehouse and Jameson Distillery as soon as you have your pass. Both require advance reservations, and Guinness especially fills up at weekends and during the summer. Slot those in first, then build the rest of your days around them.
The hop-on hop-off bus is most useful on your first day. Use it to get your bearings and pick out the spots you want to return to on foot. After that, Dublin’s city centre is compact enough that walking between most attractions is quicker than waiting for the bus.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum consistently surprises people. It’s easy to overlook if you don’t have Irish roots, but the 20 interactive galleries are among the best-designed museum spaces in the country, and the stories in there - scientists, poets, outlaws, presidents - are genuinely gripping. Give it at least two hours.
If you’re visiting for 3 days or more, consider adding a day trip to Malahide or Newbridge House. Both are north of the city and easy to reach by DART or bus. They’re included in the pass, they’re quieter than the city centre attractions, and they show a very different side of the Dublin area.
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