Originally Posted by
Scissors
I'm not sure what I did wrong with that last post. Trying to learn how to respond to a particular post.
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Originally Posted by Scissors
I've thought about flying into SNN but don't want to rent a car and not sure about transportation from there. We did stay 3 nights at the Sheraton in Athlone. Rail was handy to Galway and other routes just to check out the country. The Sheraton in Athlone had cash and points. Quiet little town but I would stay there again. The castle was closed for restoration when we were there but the pubs were open!
Well, take a look at the rail map for Ireland:
http://www.irishrail.ie/map-ireland.jsp
You can't get to many of the sights in western Ireland with public transport. You either have to rent a car or hook up with tours (big or small; the small tours btw can get you to places the big bug tours can't, because many of thoe roads in western Ireland are too narrow for big buses).
If all you want is pubs, you can find that anywhere in Ireland. If all you want is general countyside, yes, you can get that on rail routes. If you want a sizeable city, you can probably do that on rail routes. But if you want to tour the ring of Kerry, or the cliffs of Moher (or an ancient burial site in that area), no trains go there.
However, there is a train near SNN, though it doesn't go right to the airport. (The airport is between Ennis and Limerick, and there are train stops both places. But you have to catch a bus to one of those cities AFAIK.)
So DUB may be more practical if you're going to use only rail, even if you're going to go to the west.