Hostelworld.com Announces Top St. Patrick's Day Destinations for 2010

    Over 26,000 customers voted, and U.S. destinations top the list of
favorite
    spots to sport green if you can't make it to Dublin

DUBLIN, March 9 /CNW/ -- While Dublin remains the official home of St. Patrick's Day festivities, there are many destinations outside the Emerald Isle where revelers can celebrate in their finest green. After surveying more than 26,000 customers, Hostelworld.com has announced several top destinations beyond Ireland to lift a pint in honor of St. Patrick. Of these respondents, 38% selected U.S. destinations as their favorite places to party on March 17. Whether it's city-wide celebrations, traditional (or rowdy) parades, pub crawls, green beer, Irish music, or all of the above, these destinations are sure to bring out the Irish in everyone.

    Top 10 St. Patrick's Day Destinations for 2010 (outside of Ireland):

    1. New York
    2. Boston
    3. Chicago
    4. London
    5. Sydney
    6. Savannah
    7. Melbourne
    8. Montreal
    9. San Francisco
    10. Washington, DC

    --  New York - Approximately two million people pack the streets each year
        to bear witness to the largest St. Patty's Day parade in the U.S.,
        boasting more than 150,000 marchers.

Accommodations from $32 per person, per night at the Columbus Circle Hostel, New York. http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Columbus-Circle-Hostel/New-York/337 45

    --  Boston - Home to the famous "Southie" parade (the first St. Patty's
Day
        parade in the U.S.) and teeming with more Irish pubs than anywhere
else
        in the country, Boston is a perpetual hotspot on March 17.

    Accommodations from $42 per person, per night at H.I. Boston.
   
http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/H-I-Boston-Downtown/Boston/1852

    --  Chicago - Chicago has been dying its river green since the 1960's and
        holds two parades to commemorate St. Patty's Day, one in the South
Side
        and one downtown.

    Accommodations from $30 per person, per night at H.I. Chicago.
    http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/H-I-Chicago/Chicago/1853


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