Dún Laoghaire Walking Tours, The Dublin Riviera

Name: Dún Laoghaire Walking Tours, The Dublin Riviera
Start: 2025-12-06
End: 2026-10-31
Location: Meeting Place: Harbour Plaza, Dún Laoghaire

The Pavilion Theatre was advertised as providing “first class entertainments” in Kingstown. It housed a selection of rooms including tearooms, a smoking room, ladies’ and gentlemen’s reading rooms.

Postcard by ‘Jotter’ aka Walter Hayward Young 1868-1920. Ross’s Victoria Hotel opened around 1849 at number one Victoria Terrace at the corner of Mellifont Avenue.

The Royal Marine Hotel opened its doors in 1865. The luxurious hotel attracted many aristocratic and royal guests. The beautiful ornamental gardens included walks, statues, flower knots and sparking fountains.

Saturday, 6 December 2025 - Saturday, 31 October 2026

Event times:

11:00 - 12:30

Event location:

Meeting Place: Harbour Plaza, Dún Laoghaire

Event price:

€25.00

About this event

The Dublin Riviera is a guided walking tour along Dún Laoghaire seafront and harbour. The walk is led by Eileen O'Duffy, local author and historian. Tours take place 11am on Saturdays. Meet at Harbour Plaza, entrance to Old Ferry Terminal.

The Dublin Riviera is a guided walk back in time to a golden era where local Dún Laoghaire residents and visitors wined and dined in the yacht clubs, restaurants and hotels along the waterfront, and danced in the Pavilion, the ballrooms and the nightclubs. The walk will provide an insight into the symbiotic relationship between the harbour and the town and how this helped Dún Laoghaire to evolve into an elegant and glamorous centre of hospitality, entertainment and luxurious bathing, a “Dublin Riviera”.

Highlights:

Waterfront Yacht Clubs and the Royal Visits

The Pavilion and Town Hall

Royal Marine Hotel and Gardens

Haddington House Hotel

Former Seafront hotels on Victoria and Marine Terrace

Dún Laoghaire Baths (finish)

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