Should I visit London or Dublin?

Oh dear god, both.

And my answer is the same for both, for the boys. ;)

But you’re a Mr. So…for the beer? For the chicks?

You can create a better world, mrmonkey, one couch at a time!

For me, it would be hands down London so that you could spend time in the British Museum, monument to great white bwana thievery and home to some of the world’s greatest treasures.

Should you come up for air, there’s Indian food, fish and chips, pub grub, other great sites.

This is nothing against Dublin, a fabulous city in itself.

1) I went to Google Books and searched “dublin.”
2)I got this list of events and places
3)Just scroll down a few pages to behold a major list of events and places and phone numbers, etc.

Dublin’s beautiful and worth the time if you have it, but I’d definitely go to London.

London.

LONDON! as someone who has been to both its a no brainer. there is much more to see and do in London.

Neither, the IRA have started killing innocent people again.So go to Switzerland.

I think a lot depends on how much time you have. Both cities deserve a lot of time, but it is MUCH easier to do Dublin in a shorter period of time. I LIVED in London for 6 months and still feel as if there were so many things that I missed and didn’t get a chance to do.

If you go to Dublin – Trinity College was lovely and there are some excellent churches throughout the city (make sure to stop by St. Patrick’s Cathedral where Jonathan Swift is buried). There’s also the Guinness Factory if you like beer (it really does taste different in Dublin than anywhere else.

If you go to London – there are too many things to list, but some highlights that I recommend are The Tower of London: do the tour – it’s fun and interesting, The British Museum: Give yourself a LOT of time unless you are JUST there for the highlights, and Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral are lovely and if you don’t care about a proper tour you can get in for free if you go for Evensong (it’s at 5 pm every night at St. Paul’s). If you want slightly less touristy things, I definitely recommend spending time in CamdenTown and a walk/run in Hampstead Heath is really beautiful. There’s also some fantastic food and weekend markets are a lot of fun.

really tough choice

I have spent a significant part of my childhood in London. Of course the London I knew as a child is not one you can see as a tourist, and does not even exist anymore. But generally, it’s a huge cosmopolitan city, one that everyone should visit at least once in their lives. It has all the cliches (red phone booths and double decker buses, black Hackney cabs) but also an atmosphere, a smell (or rather stench) of a really big city where people and cultures from all over the world and all walks of life cross paths. It’s the only place in the world where you can see someone with a punk hairstyle and piercings in a suit. Playing Nintendo.

Dublin is nicer. I have not spent as much time there, but the time I did spend was wonderful. People are nice and there’s live music in every pub. It’s more picturesque and generally a better place to be.

But whichever you visit this time, make sure you see both at some point in your life. Personally, I’d take London first for comparison.

Pfft, I still say visit whichever makes you more hot and bothered. :)

Thank you all for your great answers! I just booked flights to London next wednesday. I plan on doing as much couchsurfing as possible. Besides that, can you recommend any good hostels?

The International Students House (ISH) was popular amongst people that I knew while I was in London, but I’m not sure if you HAVE to be a current student. There’s also The Generator, which was great for people who liked to party. St. Christopher’s Inn (there actually three of them in London – maybe more) is also generally pretty nice. I stayed in one in Paris and it was lovely; they are also associated/connected to Belushi’s Pub/Bar.

Let me know if you have any other questions…I just got back home about a couple months ago so it’s still really fresh in my mind!!

I stayed at Pickwick Hall http://www.pickwickhall.co.uk/uk/ which is just by the British Museum and an equal distance from Holborn and Russell Square tube stops. I loved it. I don’t have any idea how much it cost.