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Dublin to Holyhead Ferry Anglesey Wales UK
Holyhead is most renowned as Anglesey's port town, and indeed it's been shunting people over to Ireland by ferry for years. Behind the building of the Menai Suspension Bridge (by Thomas Telford) was to improve direct transport links from London to Holyhead and on to Ireland!
Today you've a superb choice of Ferry services from Holyhead to both Dublin, and just to the South of Dublin, Dun Laoghaire. Both Stena Line Ferries and Irish Ferries offer the route, and there's a choice of fast or slower cruise ferries to choose from. Increasingly visitors to Anglesey are taking day trips across to Dublin - and why not! If you hook into a fast ferry from Holyhead you could be in Dublin in not much over 2 hours (with your car as well!). Day trip prices are amazingly good value too (check the Holyhead to Dublin Ferry weblinks right for details). Special offers come up all the time!
Holyhead to Dublin & Dun Laoghaire Ferry Daytrips
A quick browse over the aferry.to weblink right (book ferries online), or on either the Irish Ferries or Stena Line Ferries website, and you'll soon realise that you could get to Dublin from Holyhead in just 99 minutes. Fast ferry services are evolving, catering well for the day trip market. If you're holidaying in Anglesey why not consider a day trip to Dublin (either with or without your car!).
Ferry journey times from Holyhead to Dubliin vary from 1 hour and 39 minutes to around 3 hours 15 minutes, dependent on which ferry you choose (there's a choice of Swift Ferries or Cruise Ferries). With two main ferry companies running the route from Holyhead to Dublin and Dun Laoghaire, prices are competitive, plus you've a choice of journey times - each company runs several ferries daily. (check the weblinks right for details).
Ferry services are evolving - you can expect online booking discounts, caravan discounts, and frequent special offers, as well as linked theme breaks like golf breaks. As the ferries get faster, it makes day trips to Ireland from Anglesey a real option as you've got several hours in Dublin before return (or why not stop off for the night!). Crossings are really cheap if you're not taking your car! Check the weblinks right for details.
Holyhead Tourist Information Centre & Tourist Guide
Holyhead Tourist Information Centre, Stenna Line, Terminal 1, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, LL65 1DQ. Tel: + 44 (0)1407 762622.
It's not all ferries and ports in Holyhead. Birdwatching fans will be well aware that pushing up to the South Stack Cliffs beyond Holyhead offers superb opportunities to view puffins, razorbills, peregrnes, choughs and guillemots. You've different seasonal highlights here on South Stack - different birds arrive for feeding at different times. The puffins are there in Spring and early summer. Check the RSPB weblink right for the full list of seasonal birding highlights.
All of the South Stack area is a nature reserve, with a choice of nature trails branching out around the RSPB information centre at Ellins Tower (you can hire binoculars here!) Enjoy a mix of coastal and heathland terrain on these trails. The ancient Holyhead Mountain Hut Group is also up this way, as well as a selection of standing stones!
Trearddur Bay's beach is considered one of Anglesey's best beaches. Trearddur is a blue flag beach offering lots of watersprots opportunities including canoeing, surfing and water skiing. Beautiful endless golden sands on this Anglesey beach, especially at low tide!
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