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We stayed at bed and breakfast homes instead of standard hotels due to several factors. We found that most of the downtown Glasgow and Dublin hotels offered for decent prices were very cramped, in noisy locations, and a fair bit more expensive than their quiet and more spacious B&B equivalents.

We picked:

The Victorian House B&B

in Glasgow, Scotland, which is just 5-10 minutes to all the downtown areas and rail/bus stations. It's an elevated 5 floor victorian boarding house with the lobby and breakfast room on the "ground" floor (one floor higher than street level). It's not for the faint of stairs, but the breakfast is really good with lots of selection. I'd reccomend the smoked haddock to anyone not big on fatty breakfast meats. Yummy.

for the wedding night. We stayed in the Cecily Blair Room, which is as large as our spacious 2 bedroom apartment, not including its Victorian bathroom. The room overlooks the estate's stream and far grounds, which are increadible. Luke and Caroline had just recieved a 5-star rating as a private resort, so we were the first guests to be spoiled since! Don't let the rating decieve you though, Lina personally cooked and served all our meals and was as down to earth as your best friend's mother. You really couldn't ask for nicer people.

in Dublin, Ireland. The house is right on a bus route on a busy street, so you get street noise, and the 18" by 6 foot closet converted into a full bathroom was a bit quirky to say the least, the beds are mostly comfortable for a light person and the breakfast is ok if you aren't too picky. Plan on doing lots in Dublin until late, because the 4 channels of antenna TV won't have anything on to amuse you! Bernie and her husband are very quiet and out of the way, so you won't probably see them unless it's breakfast time, but they seem nice enough.

in Galway, Ireland. This couple really knows how to run a B&B. Eddie and Helen have accomodated everything you could need in your room (kettle, cookies, tv, nice bathroom, extra pillows), they serve a very well done breakfast, and are very social and fun Irish. They can tell you the best tours to take and which driver to get for it, as well as tell you all kinds of stories about themselves. They're a lot like Galway in general -- fun and laid back.