Grand Canal Hotel is located in the affluent Ballsbridge area in Georgian Dublin. The city centre is a 15 minute walking away. On the way to the city centre you pass:
- The Grand Canal and the Grand Canal Dock
- Merrion Square
- Oscar Wilde Memorial
- Residence of Oscar Wilde
- National Gallery.
DART station Grand Canal Dock is a minute' walk from the hotel.
By DART you can reach the seaside for wonderful day trips in only 20 minutes. Ferry port at Dun Laoghaire and Croke Park are also easily accessible by DART.
RDS (Royal Dublin Society) and Lansdowne Road Station are only a 10 minute walk away. The Point Theatre is a 30 minute walk.
By Car (From Dublin Airport):
- Drive to the airport roundabout and take the 2nd exit onto the M1 (signposted Dublin).
- Join the M1 motorway and continue forwards onto Swords Road-N1 (signposted M1 City Centre).
- On this way you will enter in Dublin. Follow the traffic signals and continue forward onto Drumcondra Road Lower-N1 (signposted City Centre).
- At Junction 70 turn left onto Belvidere Road (signposted N3, N4, N7, N11).
- Then, at Junction 71 turn left onto North Circular Road- R101 (signposted N11), and finally, at Junction 73 turn right onto Amiens Street – R105 (signposted City Centre). - Follow the traffic signals again and continue forward onto Memorial Road – R105 (one way).
- Continue forward onto Moss Street – R802 and turn right onto Lombard Street East – R814. When you are in Lombard Street East continue forward onto Westland Row – R118 and bear right onto Merrion Street Lower – R815.
- Turn left onto Merrion Square North – R118. Go on until the end of this street and then turn left onto Clanwilliam Place.
- Now just turn right onto Grand Canal Street Lower – R815 and you will see Grand Canal Hotel on your right.