The Abbey Court is located right off the O'Connell Bridge on Bachelor's Walk, placing it just across the water from the safe (yet somewhat noisy) Temple Bar area.

The brown brick Abbott Lodge has a pleasant, homey atmosphere inside.

With 281 beds, Avalon House is a big joint hostel/hotel facility. Its architectural grandeur, convenient location and professional management all make the Avalon a fine budget option.

ne of Dublin’s best-known hostels, Barnacles sits at the epicenter of Temple Bar. The epicenter. An earthquake centered on the world’s Irish pubs would rip the earth open in this precise site.

Conveniently placed adjacent to Dublin’s bus terminal, the Beresford is an easy pick for its location as well as its solid rooms and often reasonable rates.

The Clifden's 15 immaculate rooms and high-ceilinged hallways suggest a romantic Georgian past.

The Dergvale Hotel, offering 20 rooms in the Upper Gardiner part of town, falls into that subcategory of hotels we consider to be especially appealing to a fussy aunt or uncle.

The spic-and-span Eliza Lodge is a sleek modern building poised on the edge of Wellington Quay and overlooking the Millennium Bridge.

The Four Courts Hostel is the kind of high quality hostel we dig. With 236 beds in all, it's clean and features spacious lounges on two floors.

A hostel with style? Yes folks, it's possible. Globetrotters Hostel, with its 260 beds, is cut of a different cloth.

Well over half of the Harding Hotel's rooms offer stellar views of beautiful Christ Church Cathedral, which is just across the street.

Staying at the Hazelbrook House, one of the many centrally located guesthouses on Lower Gardiner Street, is a bit like staying at the home of a fastidiously clean, though aesthetically indifferent, aunt.

It's obvious before one even enters the conveniently located Isaacs Hostel that this former wine cellar and warehouse is a favorite with travelers the world over.

The Jacobs Inn is a mammoth hostel, cramming 420 beds into its 69 rooms. Location, a stone’s throw from Dublin’s main bus terminal, is an easy 15-minute walk to Temple Bar.

Part of a chain of hotels spanning Ireland and the U.K., the Jurys Inn offers reliable three-star surrounds and service with all the usual amenities.

Located across the street from Christ Church Cathedral and Dublin Castle, the Kinlay House is one well-placed hostel, offering budget beds within minutes of the rollicking Temple Bar scene.

Located a full block from Parnell Square, the three-star Maldron Hotel Parnell Square offers 105 standard rooms and an aesthetically interesting hodgepodge.

The Marian Guesthouse is a cute 16-room B&B situated among a cluster of similar little inns along quiet Upper Gardiner Street.