Dublin Airport transfers from Bray

Bray is the closest Wicklow town to the M50, and the road part of the run is straightforward: north on the N11 and around to the terminals. It is the traffic that moves, not the route. A trip that is comfortable at five in the morning tightens up considerably once the motorway fills, so the pickup time on a Bray job is set by the hour of the morning as much as by the distance.

Bray also has the shortest run onto the motorway of any Wicklow town we cover. The stretch that passes the town is the M11, with Junction 5 signed for Bray North and Junction 6 for Fassaroe, and Dublin Airport is signposted from Junction 4 along with Dublin Port and the northbound M50. Beyond the town the motorway gives way to the N11 dual carriageway through the Glen of the Downs, which is why the same corridor is called by both names and why every town further down the coast joins it later in the journey than Bray does. It is a large part of the reason a Bray pickup can be later in the morning than one from further south for the same flight.

The other thing worth knowing is that Bray is the largest town in County Wicklow and a spread-out one, running from the seafront and the DART station up to Fassaroe on the motorway side. Two addresses that both count as Bray can be a good ten minutes apart in traffic. If the group is coming from more than one house, that spread is worth mentioning when you book rather than on the morning.

The office is open 7am to 9pm, seven days a week. Outside those hours somebody still picks up for airport work, which is the part worth knowing before a 4am start: if a departure time moves the night before you travel, you are not leaving a voicemail and hoping.