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Eye Eye Sir
06-08-2010Over the bank holiday weekend myself and the other half made plans to pop into town and see the new, much talked about, Dublin Eye. Having seen and experienced both the Belfast Eye and the London Eye I was looking forward to seeing Dublin from a birds eye view so to speak.
So on bank holiday Monday we set out and the first problem we incurred was that we couldn’t find the bloody thing. I kid you not. We had read about it and in every article it said it was located in the Docklands area. I work in the docklands area so it's not like we don’t know the place. Before we left we tried looking it up on the internet - bloody thing doesn’t have a website and isn’t even listed on any of the Dublin Tourism sites. Call me cynical but don’t you need to promote somewhere in order to get people along?
Turns out its located at the Point Depot (or the o2 - depending on your age) not that this was listed in any article I had read but none the less that’s where it is should the notion to visit ever take hold.
Despite it being a bank holiday there were not too many people around. Given that this was it's opening weekend I was expecting a few more bodies (then again if it doesn’t have a website or isn’t listed on any tourism page and the details about where it is actually located are a bit sketchy, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised). The 9 euro per adult price tag isn’t too bad by Dublin standards, or at least that's what I thought until I got in the air. The thing is, they have managed to pick the worst possible location in Dublin for this thing. By the time you get up about the point / o2 all you can see are cranes and deserted building sites. The best you can hope for is that its a clear enough day to see Landsdowne and if you lean close enough over to one side of the carriage you might be able to peer up past the buildings to see the quays or the other halves current work place in East Point.
That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it, but I guess that’s more to do with the company than the views.
And I am pretty sure it’s the same construction that was in Belfast. I'd bet my last euro on it. Maybe.
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