Dingle Ireland
6
Cruises availables
At departure or passage at this port
Atlas Ocean Voyages (1 Cruises)
Aurora Expeditions (2 Cruises)
Lindblad Expeditions (2 Cruises)
Ponant (1 Cruises)
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Smaller ships anchor offshore and tenders land passengers at the pier, right in the centre of the village. No shuttle, no terminal: you step straight into Dingle life.
Entirely. The main streets — Main Street, Green Street, Strand Street — take little time to cover, though you can happily spend hours on them. The pier, the waterfront restaurants and the aquarium are all within walking distance.
Yes. Dingle lies in the Gaeltacht, a region where Irish remains a living language: the signs read An Daingean and you may well hear Gaelic across a shop counter. English is used everywhere without difficulty.
Some double as shops: you once bought boots or nails before ordering a pint, and a few establishments keep up that double life. Several venues offer traditional music afternoon and evening — fiddle, accordion and bodhrán.
A bottlenose dolphin who escorted boats in the bay for nearly forty years and became the beloved mascot of the whole peninsula. A bronze statue on the pier recalls him. He is gone, but his memory is part of the town's identity.
Whatever the boats landed that morning: crab and langoustine go from deck to plate in a few hours. Steaming chowder, fresh crab and brown bread still warm are the standard on the waterfront, and one of the great pleasures of the call.
A coast road that loops the tip of the Dingle peninsula, linking Atlantic-battered cliffs, pale beaches and pasture that runs down to the sea. If the schedule allows, it justifies going ashore all by itself.
A dry-stone chapel around 1,200 years old on the Slea Head road, built without mortar and still watertight. The area also has beehive-shaped stone huts where monks lived: witnesses to a very old Christian past.
Allow two hours for the pier, the main streets and a chowder by the water. Three to four hours lets you add the Oceanworld aquarium and a music stop in a pub. Half a day opens the door to Slea Head or a boat trip along the cliffs.
Yes, on the boat trips that follow the coast: they encounter seals, seabirds and sometimes dolphins. Offshore stand the Blasket Islands, inhabited until the mid-twentieth century. Nothing is guaranteed, but this coast is generous.
