Dublin Tourism Centre

Make your first stop the Dublin Tourism Centre, in a sturdy, granite church on Suffolk Street. Here you can book sightseeing tours; purchase ferry, train, and bus tickets; arrange lodgings; find out what is in Dublin—and enjoy a cup of coffee. (Tel: 01 605 7720, www.visitdublin.com.) Dublin is easily explored on foot, but as an introduction take one of the double-decker sightseeing buses. The tours run every ten minutes and wind a circular route through the city with a commentary on the significance of the buildings along the route. Your ticket is valid for twenty-four hours. The bus makes frequent stops so you can take the entire tour for an overview of what there is to see and then later use it as transportation between the sights, hopping on and off to visit the places that interest you.