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4. Januar 2025
A weekend sports event hosted by the student boxers of Trinity College brought me to Dublin for the fifth time in thirty years, and provided an opportunity for my very first stay at the City Centre Premier Inn Gloucester Street South. I've stayed in many Premier Inn hotels back home in the United Kingdom and was keen to see the similarities and differences between the brand as it operates in the Republic of Ireland. This modern, high-rise, tower-block hotel has a fantastic location on the south bank of the River Liffey, just across the bridge from a number of important visitor attractions (such as the Custom House and Emigration Museum) and a ten-minute walk from Trinity College and the Irish Whiskey Museum. It's very close to Tara Street Station on the north-south DART commuter railway system and not much farther from where the shuttlebus to and from the Ferry Port picks up and sets down its passengers. Anyone wanting to ride on an open-topped tour 'bus or use the fast and frequent Luas Trams would need to head for O'Connell Street, which takes around fifteen minutes on foot. My room was large, clean and comfortable, with a huge bed, a workstation with 240 Volt power sockets, hanging space for shirts and trousers and the usual facilities for making tea and coffee. Interestingly the wall-mounted HDMI socket functioned as intended, allowing me to connect my camcorder to the large, flatscreen television set above the workstation. The combined shower room and lavatory was clean with plenty of hot and cold running water. The view from my bedroom window, looking north across a residential and industrial area near the docklands, was unimpressive From the time I checked in on Friday evening until the time I checked out on Monday morning the staff members on duty were uniformly courteous and helpful. The breakfast and dinner menus were very similar to what you'd get in the UK (eg Cod & Chips or Chicken Curry) but obviously priced in EUR rather than GBP, so I was always conscious of the currency conversion rate! There is a rack near the lifts containing free leaflets for guests who want to visit Dublin's many tourist attractions, but the main Information Office in O'Connell Street isn't far away. There's a small bar selling a reasonable range of beers, wines and spirits but I didn't have time to use it for the reason outlined below. In the UK the free Wi-Fi provided at Premier Inns is so slow as to be useless and you can pay GBP 5 per day extra to upgrade to a faster service. In Dublin the free hotel Wi-Fi was twice as fast as what you'd get back home (Download 1.0 Mbps: Upload 0.5 Mbps and Latency 47 ms) but - and here's the rub - the option to upgrade to a better option (supposedly for GBP 5 per day) simply didn't work. I needed to upload large A/V clips of a sports event in real time and couldn't do this with the free Wi-Fi in the hotel. If there was a pub or a cafe within walking distance which offered a faster service for free, I couldn't find
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