Hello everyone,

what can you recommend for a familr of 3 to do in Dingle for 3 days without a car?
Our daughter will be 4 and we will be staying at Ballintaggart Hostel just outside Dingle. What types of things are recommended that can be done using public transportation? Thanks!

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there are mini-bus tours around the Dingle Peninsula as well as sporadic public buses - this of course is one of the most spectacular coast lines in Europe - remote and depopulated largely it's especially know for its beehive huts - stone huts extant from centuries ago that are along the road.
In Dingle itself your daughter may like to go out and play with Fungi, the funky friendly dolphin that swam into Dingle Bay years ago and hung ago. A cottage industry has sprung up around the dolphin with local fisher folk taking tourists out to see the playful dolphin up close.

My wife and I and our adult daughter spent two nights at the Ballintaggart Hostel last May. It was fun to stay in a place with so much history connected with it.

Here are some activity suggestions from my Rick Steves and Lonely Planet Ireland guidebooks. Check with the Montain Man (www.themountainmanshop.com) for information on hiking, biking, horseback riding, climbing, peninsula tours, and trips to the Blasket Islands. Visit the Oceanworld aquarium. Dingle World of Leisure is a health club for adults and a good rainy-day option for kids, offering bowling, arcade games, a swimming pool, and a children's indoor playground.

Rick Steves: "Top local musicians offer a quality evening of live, acoustic, classic Irish music in the fine little St. James Church on Main Street (Mon, Wed, & Fri at 19:30). If you're not a night owl (music in pubs doesn't begin until 21:30) or prefer not to be packed into a pub with the distractions of conversation, then this is your best opportunity to hear Irish traditional music in a more controlled environment."

You can take a boat out to Dingle to see Funghi, the famous Dingle dolphin, who likes to jump and great the boats. It was raining the day we were going to do that, so we didn't - and I've always regretted it! Not sure how you would get from outside of Dingle to town with public transporation, but when you get to town you can walk everywhere.

Make sure you eat at Doyle's restaurant in Dingle. A taste treat and not expensive by our standards