DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Ireland

My wife and daughter are planning a trip to Ireland this spring and my daughter lives about 800 miles from us, I purchased this book for each of them to plan their itinerary. This book has many positives - great pictures, wonderful descriptions, but it does have one major flaw in my opinion. The font is about a 4, it would give that font in the never can be read "fine print" a run for its money. My wife needs a magnifying glass just to read it. Not sure how convenient it will be to pop out a magnifying glass when traveling abroad just to be able to read it. I will be purchasing a different guide for each of them and hopefully that one can be read with out the magnification.

This book became a life saver in Dublin! We were given a Dublin Map in Dublin that didn't have all the streets and side streets on it. We got so lost trying to find everything! This book we had on us and it has maps of Dublin in it. So I opened it up and it had all the streets & side streets unlike the map we got in Dublin. We were able to use it & find where we were going perfectly!

I travel a few times a year to foreign destinations and have purchased many travel guides over the past 10 years. I keep coming back to the DK books because they are succinct and illustrated. I guess I'm a visual guy and love the illustrations. It makes travel fun. This guide was a great companion when traveling the country and helped us around Dublin.

Two things I love: Ireland and DK travel books, so the two together are delightful! I love how DK books are so colorful; one doesn't need to buy postcards or other souvenirs: the travel book is enough for remembering every detail of a memorable trip. And when planning the trip, one knows exactly what to expect from the pictures, information, and organization that DK does so well in all the travel books in its collection. They are the only travel books I buy, and I have traveled all over the world.

Nicely organized - index tagged effectively, sections/areas captioned clearly & concisely, yet found that there was no country code before the area code, thus, telephone numbers were invalid. Few attractions had specific addresses and hours of operation need seasonal hours identification. Unless I missed it, we had no clue that double lanes were 16ft wide, wide enough for small or compact cars only. Tour buses are 8ft wide and can be a challenge in on coming 2 lane traffic.The book could include and inform reader of all road rules for pedestrians, cyclists, automobiles, and shuttle, taxi & bus lanes. Oh yes, as well as inform if the confusing lane diagrams and road signs. People in this country are very nice, although they are assertive and aggressive residents and frustrated tourists.

This is a great guide. It gives you information on all the most popular sites and also the streets in the towns that you will visit along with suggestions regarding shopping eating and travel . The pictures and the maps are very complete.

After seeing this at my local library, I decided I needed to order this and take with me on a trip to Ireland. As with all DK guides, the pictures are amazing and I really enjoy the historical breakdown at the beginning.

I used this to plan my Ireland trip and it was a great companion. A must have.

Bought to use on a mini driving tour of Ireland (Eire & NI), this was a very useful reference for places of interest. It's a standard format DK Eyewitness book (latest version at time of writing review) so if you're going to Ireland and like DK Eyewitness then I'd recommend this book.

An excellent guide with many illustrations.

Ok but not overwhelming

Great guide

I always use these DK Travel Guides as I find them invaluable. The illustrations are .accurate and very colourful. This guide has not disappointed.

very clear and helpful

I simply love all my DK travel guides - i take them on every trip

Excelent

These DK books are the best of their kind. I am off to Ireland for the first time and I consider these books to be an essential companion. The detailed prose and wonderful images, both photographic and illustrative, bring to life what other books only write about.

Great book. Nicelt written with maps. Can't wait to get around Ireland with it.

this book is great and just what I need for my trip to Ireland.I love the Eyewitness series

I love the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides. The information is always accurate. I have never been disappointed and I use their books all the time.

Read it just waiting to use it now

An amazing pictorial representation of a beautiful country.Not a "how to" like other guides.Great for flipping through and picking places to go!

Just what I was looking for.