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 ·  Posted: 15.02.2022  ·  #1
Just read this article. Please if you read this and are coming from GB there are at least two bits of information that are wrong or inaccurate.

The article advises to do the ring of Kerry in a motorhome in the opposite direction to the buses and coaches. Think about this! And whilst you are thinking about this research the cost and availability of replacement wing mirrors and the potential extra laundry bills when you come face to face with a coach as you are going round a 90 degree bend.
Follow the coaches go ANTI CLOCKWISE.

Next “Safe Nights Ireland” €15 per year. Last time I looked it was woefully out of date, listed places to overnight that didn’t exist, or didn’t know they were listed and in some cases simply do not welcome motorhomes.

Motorhome parking Ireland is an app, it’s up to date, accurate and much cheaper.

https://www.practicalmotorhome…8joWtXQmMI
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 ·  Posted: 15.02.2022  ·  #2
Thanks for letting us know Jamie, I've emailed them but yet to no avail.
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 ·  Posted: 15.02.2022  ·  #3
Quote by StrandCampingDoonbeg

Just read this article. Please if you read this and are coming from GB there are at least two bits of information that are wrong or inaccurate.

The article advises to do the ring of Kerry in a motorhome in the opposite direction to the buses and coaches. Think about this! And whilst you are thinking about this research the cost and availability of replacement wing mirrors and the potential extra laundry bills when you come face to face with a coach as you are going round a 90 degree bend.
Follow the coaches go ANTI CLOCKWISE.

Next “Safe Nights Ireland” €15 per year. Last time I looked it was woefully out of date, listed places to overnight that didn’t exist, or didn’t know they were listed and in some cases simply do not welcome motorhomes.

Motorhome parking Ireland is an app, it’s up to date, accurate and much cheaper.

https://www.practicalmotorhome…8joWtXQmMI



Jamie that kind of information is clearly coming from someone with zero knowledge of the area that they are referring to.
Anyone taking up that advice will seriously regret it.
Good on you for making people aware of this.
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 ·  Posted: 17.02.2022  ·  #4
I subscribed for about 2 years, but it’s mainly full of adverts.
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 ·  Posted: 17.02.2022  ·  #5
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Thanks for letting us know Jamie, I've emailed them but yet to no avail.


So did I and pointed out that the Parking. Site, they recommend clearly states on their membership website
("15 per calendar year. The first period will be Year 2016." )

Would that not alert, you to something.?
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 ·  Posted: 17.02.2022  ·  #6
Email sent too. Editorial standards as well as the research for that article is abysmal to say the least.
However, I’d also think that any email will fall on deaf ears as that publication is only interested in advertising and subscriptions and the actual content and factual information is of no real concern to the folk involved.
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 ·  Posted: 17.02.2022  ·  #7
The article says it's recommended to drive clockwise, I've never been so I wondered who recommends it. According to Google lots of people do. There's as many articles saying go clockwise as there are anticlockwise.
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 ·  Posted: 17.02.2022  ·  #8
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The article says it's recommended to drive clockwise, I've never been so I wondered who recommends it. According to Google lots of people do. There's as many articles saying go clockwise as there are anticlockwise.

It’s simply that all organised coach and bus tours go anti clockwise. Coaches are slow so are motorhomes you are not in a rush why risk two wide bodied vehicles coming together on a repeated basis? Maybe fine in a T6 or car etc but my A Class mirrors are not going to be easy or cheap to replace.
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 ·  Posted: 17.02.2022  ·  #9
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Follow the coaches go ANTI CLOCKWISE.



Which is what I did on my 2012 trip. Counterclockwise.
And what I will do this summer if I decide to return to Ireland.
The strange thing is that the Lonely Planet and Routard travel guides contradicted each other in this regard.

My suggestion is to leave early in the morning when the huge tour buses are still in the hotel parking lot waiting for the Japanese tourists to finish their breakfast.

Max

p.s. As far as mirrors are concerned, in Scotland I crashed mine into another motorhome.
Needless to say that it wasn't my fault and that he was Italian. Smile.
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 ·  Posted: 18.02.2022  ·  #10
We have gone the correct way on Ring of Kerry same way as coaches but you still see other large trucks coming opposite way.
Also too many cyclists, hard to overtake on narrow, twisty sections..
On a straight stretch we clipped our mirror on passenger side, a sign sticking out, €500 to replace on A class.
I think with little or no coaches during Covid it was possibly easier.

Safe Nights membership was recommended when we bought our first MH 11 years ago, after a few calls and blank responses, unaware they were listed.
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 ·  Posted: 18.02.2022  ·  #11
Mtravel great to see someone from another country on the craic hope when you come back to Ireland you come north 👍
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