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Plan the perfect 3 days in Dublin itinerary with a day-by-day plan, ticket tips, costs, and neighborhood picks. Map out your 2026 Dublin trip now.
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Plan the perfect 3 days in Dublin itinerary with a day-by-day plan, ticket tips, costs, and neighborhood picks. Map out your 2026 Dublin trip now.

Is the Dublin Pass worth it in 2026? Compare real pricing, sample savings math, and pass inclusions before you book a Dublin sightseeing pass online.

Plan the perfect one day in Dublin itinerary for 2026 with timed-entry tips, walkable stops, and an hour-by-hour plan. Start exploring today.

Visitor guides to Dublin's 14 essential landmarks — verified 2026 tickets, opening hours, sold-out workarounds and honest worth-it verdicts for the Guinness Storehouse, Book of Kells, Kilmainham Gaol and more.

Little Museum of Dublin tickets cost €18 for adults in 2026, entry is by 29-minute guided tour only, and the museum is open daily 9:30am–5pm. Prices by category, booking windows, tour length, and how to avoid arriving without a reservation.

Glasnevin Cemetery is free to walk, but the guided Irish History Tour costs from €17 for adults (€22 with the O'Connell Tower climb), and the grounds are open daily 9am-5pm. Prices, hours, tour length, and how to plan your 2026 visit.

Admission to every National Museum of Ireland site is free in 2026 — no ticket needed. Here's what that means in practice, plus opening hours (Mon 1–5pm, Tue–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm), which of the four branches to pick, and how long to plan.

Phoenix Park itself is free to enter and its main gates stay open 24 hours a day — the only ticket most visitors actually need is for Dublin Zoo inside it. Full 2026 guide to prices, opening hours, and how to plan your visit.

Book of Kells tickets start from €26 in 2026, and Trinity College stays open until 7pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Here's what the visit costs, when to go, and how to skip the worst queues.

A self-guided adult ticket to Christ Church Cathedral costs €12 in 2026, and the cathedral opens most days from 9am, with last admission 45 minutes before close, while Sunday sightseeing runs in two shorter blocks around services. What the ticket covers, current hours, and how to time your visit around the Dublinia combo option.

Dublin Castle is closed to the public through the end of 2026 for Ireland's EU Council Presidency. Here's what that means for your trip, plus 2026 ticket prices (from €8), hours, and how long to plan once it reopens.

Standard Jameson Distillery Bow St tour tickets start from about €26 per adult in 2026 (senior/student €23, ages 13-17 €12), and tours run daily with the last departure at 5:30pm Sun-Thu or 6:30pm Fri-Sat. Prices, timing, and how to avoid a wasted trip.