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Singing the Blus in Dublin & Letterkenny

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Club Carson, Dublin, Europe, Ireland, Northern Ireland

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This is post seven of fourteen on our trip to Northern Ireland and Croatia, minus our mini Game of Thrones tour. Those posts can be found here.

  • Intro to Northern Ireland & Croatia
  • Recovering from Jetlag in Dublin: Dublin Castle and Trinity College
  • Bubblin’ in Dublin: Dublin Eats
  • Chasing Scully: Staying at the Hilton Belfast
  • The Land of Giants and the Northernmost Point in Ireland
  • Hiking Glenveagh National Park
  • Singing the Blus in Dublin & Letterkenny
  • Heating up in Zadar
  • Azure Waters Await at Kornati National Park
  • Falling for Picturesque Plitvice
  • Let’s Never Split
  • The Jewel of the Adriatic: Dubrovnik
  • Walking the Wall in Dubrovnik
  • A Brief Stop in Bosnia

Mrs. Selfish and I have a pretty clear hierarchy when it comes to hotel preferences: Hyatt, Hilton/Starwood/Marriott, IHG, other.  There are admittedly a ton of great hotels out there, but I’m pretty cheap when it comes down to it. I mean, why pay for a good (or even a great) hotel when you can get it for free?

Unfortunately, Northern Ireland wasn’t exactly swimming in hotel options, so I decided to try a new program: Club Carlson.

Mrs. Selfish and I each got the Club Carlson business cards back in the summer of 2013 because the sign-up bonus was decent: Gold status (which meant free internet & breakfast) 80,000 Club Carlson points and 40,000 on each anniversary. The real kicker, however, was the card’s #1 feature: redeem one award night, and get a second one free!

Since we were doing a lot of fast travel in Ireland, I decided to give Club Carlson a whirl, so I booked us for two nights in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin and two nights in the Radisson Blu Letterkenny.

The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin

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