Dub/Liverpool
 

I will be in Dublin the 1st week of Sept. and am considering an overnight to Liverpool. What are my options to get there and back, and costs?
Any info will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
mgkdj1

Flying with Ryanair can be as little as E40 return if you book about 6 weeks in advance.. Rail and sail is a long option and only cheaper if you need to book quickly.

Flying with Ryanair can be as little as E40 return if you book about 6 weeks in advance.. Rail and sail is a long option and only cheaper if you need to book quickly.

There are currently no ferries carrying foot passengers between Liverpool and Dublin. The only surface options are to take a car onto the ship (8 hrs, P&O Irish Sea Ferries) or to be a foot passenger from Dublin Ferryport (which really needs a taxi from most places in Dublin) to Holyhead, then the three hour train journey to Liverpool, changing Chester. In practice, city centre to city centre is around 7 hrs.

Ryanair is really the only option that makes sense - though that rarely stops the train fanatics telling you how much more fun it is to get sick on an interminable ferry crossing for not much more than twice the price of a half hour flight.

You can buy a cheap SailRail ticket from Dublin Port to Liverpool for just 43 euros at http://www.irishferries.com/ie-en/offers/sail-rail/

This ticket covers both the ferry from Dublin Port to Holyhead and any onward train you like from Holyhead to Liverpool (the ferry site only gives you their ferry timetable, so simply use www.nationalrail.co.uk to work out a train from Holyhead to Liverpool leaving say 40 minutes after the ferry arrives)

As someone who uses rather than sells sail and rail Tickets I always use Stena Line, far better overall experience. As a foot passenger I only use Irish ferries if desperate, by car very rarely, by camper Never.
http://www.stenaline.ie/ferries-to-britain/rail-sail

Flying is though the sensible option..

From your subject line I thought you were interested in finding venues for dub music in Liverpool. This would likely not be a good forum for that. But you got good advice for your real question.

And can't you just get better Irish music in the Pool than you can get in some bars in Ireland.. Of the Irish pub song CD type and occasionally of good Trad..

One thing to note... If there is a big match on (assuming a weekend trip?) airfare prices tend to hyke up with 4 flights a day each way you should be able to avoid the steepest fares but remember you can fly into Manchester as well an off peak return from Manchester Airport to Liverpool Lime Street will cost about £17 journey time about 1 hour.

"you can fly into Manchester"

But if there's a big match in Liverpool, there'll be one the weekend in Manchester too. Granted these days they stagger the timing (if the big match in Liverpool's on a Saturday, the one in Manchester's on a Sunday). But with the resurgence at both Everton and City, careful juggling of flight times is needed just about every weekend from mid August to late April.

And judging from the numbers wearing Liverpool or Man U colours at the Cork bar I boozed away this past weekend in, no shortage of Irish supporters. Yesterday's Liverpool match overlapped with Toulon-Munster.

The TV stayed tuned to Anfield: Terence MacSwiney could be heard rolling in his grave.

Thank you all for your input.
Looks as though Ryan Air will suit my needs, T2T.
I'm a retired disk jockey here in the U.S. On the air in 64', British Invasion....WOW what a time to be on air. My Dad was born in Monaghan, hence my journey to Ireland. Being that close to Liverpool, I must at least set foot there.
Thank you all,
Slainte'
MGK dj1