Are apartments in Ireland the same as they are in America?

Question

I was looking up apartments in Ireland, that you can move into with a 6 or 12 month lease, but everything I've seen is like a "hotel". And it says they charge weekly or daily, and a lot of them are 2 bedrooms that house 4 people. Are "apartments" there extremely different than here?

Answer 1

No. I've lived in a couple of different apartments in Ireland and they weren't like that.  In fact, there are loads of brand new apartment blocks across Ireland that have just been built over the last few years so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding one to suit you.  There's quite a variety of options available.  Most apartments are in regular apartment blocks with 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms.  A friend of mine is living in an apartment in Temple Bar in Dublin - it's above a restaurant in a building that was converted into apartments but it's an individual apartment and he's got it on a yearly lease.

Check out this website - it's probably the best one to check if you're looking to rent an apartment in Ireland: http://www.daft.ie/lettings/

Hope this helps ; )

Answer 2

They are smelly and ugly and if you live in one you automatically lose 40 points from your IQ.