Dublin marina choice

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We have to break our 'cruise' this summer for about 3 weeks. I am looking for wisdom on the choice of marina in the Dublin area.

Access to airport etc is significant, along with facilities, ambience and of course price has nothing to do with the matter.
 
All 4 are near a Dart station. Last time I looked Greystones most expensive, Howth cheapest but sometimes no space. Malahide can be shallow in the approach at low tides. There's not much between them. If price matters check on their websites.
 
They are all quite different and it depends what floats your particular boat. Dun Laoghaire is enormous and a bit impersonal and the most southerly, Howth is quite small and is a private members marina who receive visitors but sometimes are full. It has a friendly & lively yacht club house with food at the pierhead. It can be quite shallow where they tend to put visitors and a bit tight on manoervering space. It had/has a most amazing chip shop with lobster, salmon, calamari, Halibut on the menu. Malahide is a bit more for the sophisticated and with a lively pub and music scene and lots of good (expensive) eateries. The only place I have ever been swarming with Paparazzis; I thought some big celebrity was in town but I was assured it is often like that. I do not know Greystones.
As has been said all these are on the DART, fast passenger train into Dublin.
 
You could try Poolbeg. Again it's a club marina with a limited number of visitor berths, but they're a nice, down-to -earth bunch and will try to fit you in.
It's on the Liffey, in what was once a fishing and boat-building village, a short walk or taxi-ride from the Docklands where you can connect with public transport both to the city centre and directly with an airport bus, across the lifting bridge, at the O2 Arena.
 
Howth is a lovely club/marina in a beautiful place and as long as they can accommodate you I wouldn’t look any further.

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Hi,I am berthed in Malahide and it is a short ( 15 minutes) distance from the airport. The 102 bus passes through Malahide and leaves one at the airport. Yes you should enter 3 hours before high tide and not after 3 hours after. Stay in the channel which is marked and center as you go up through the boats on swing moorings.
 
cid said:
Hi,I am berthed in Malahide and it is a short ( 15 minutes) distance from the airport. The 102 bus passes through Malahide and leaves one at the airport. Yes you should enter 3 hours before high tide and not after 3 hours after. Stay in the channel which is marked and center as you go up through the boats on swing moorings.
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Thanks for that input. We only need 1.2m - so it should not be too difficult. Just read the instructions, do some sums and keep between the poles
 
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