This trip was disappointing. One accurate part was that it was, in fact, in Temple Bar district. Apparently, I should have known this was not the area for me, but alas, I have never been to Dublin so I didn't honestly know any better. I'll start with check in. It was a nightmare. Never got the email for check in until after I was able to finally connect with someone. The directions led you to an inaccurate location, had to walk to a secondary location to collect a key for the apartment (WHICH WAS NOT THERE), had to call 21 times to reach someone after being hung up on, had to wait until they found the key (mind you this is 4.5 hours after allowed check-in). The cleaning staff forgot to return it, so we had to walk to a THIRD location to meet her at our apartment. After a very long and tiring day of travel with 2 small kids -- this was a very painful endeavor. I will follow it with, everything is loud, and filthy. Loud because across the way there is a pub, next to pubs around pubs and the drinking and dunk songs will go into the wee hours ending around 4:00 AM... To then be followed up by 6:00 AM construction start time in the building NEXT DOOR. This stay was horrible and had I not paid over $3,000 booking it, I would have left and found better accomodations. I generously give it a 1 star, but frankly, not even deserving of that.