IRISH HIGHLIGHTS
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TFL-IRISHHLHT
Overview
A roundtrip from Dublin featuring all the Ireland highlights including Waterford crystal, your newfound ‘gift of the gab’ at Blarney Castle and the irresistible Ring of Kerry. You’ll also learn about the devastating Irish famine and peer over the edge at the Cliffs of Moher.
Included/Excluded
- An expert Travel Director and professional Driver
- Cherry-picked hotels, all tried and trusted
- All porterage and restaurant gratuities
- All hotel tips, charges and local taxes
- Breakfast daily and up to half of your evening meals
- Must-see sightseeing and surprise extras
- Audio headsets for flexible sightseeing
- Luxury air-conditioned coach with Wi-Fi in most countries or alternative transportation (such as rail journeys)
- Ferry across the Shannon estuary
- Optional Experiences and free time
- On occasion, hotels of similar standard and location may be utilised.
Day 1: Welcome to the Emerald Isle (Dinner)
- Tread in the footsteps of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, through the lyrical streets of Dublin – your launch pad to a memorable encounter with Ireland’s iconic highlights.
- After a leisurely morning, meet a Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour with views of Trinity College, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the stately Georgian Squares.
- Indulge in a little Irish craic this evening, joining your Travel Director and fellow travellers for a Welcome Dinner.
Arrival Transfer: Depart the airport at 08:30, 11:00, 13:00
Included Experience:Dublin City Tour
Day 2: Onwards to Galway and Limerick (Breakfast)
- We journey to Galway, the ‘City of Tribes’ and spend some free time exploring its stone façades.
- Irish traditions and heritage are explored next, during a visit to Bunratty Castle and its Folk Park, a living history museum that reveals insights into life in Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Continue to Limerick, for an orientation tour and view the 13th-century King John’s Castle overlooking the Shannon.
Included Experience: Stroll Through Galway and Limerick Orientation
Optional Experience: Medieval Castle Banquet
Day 3: Experience the Iconic Cliffs of Moher and on to Killarney (Breakfast)
- We leave Limerick and stop at the spectacular Cliffs of Moher on the famous ‘Wild Atlantic Way’.
- Join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience with your local specialist to truly appreciate this breath-taking landscape.
- You’ll feel like you’ve gone back to an ancient time as you gaze across the water, all the way to the Aran Islands if the weather is good.
- Visit the interactive visitor centre where this incredible UNESCO-listed natural phenomenon comes to life in a way you would not get to see with your own eyes.
- You’ll continue to your hotel in Killarney with a scenic drive to the ferry departure point and journey across the Shannon Estuary.
- Our home for the next two nights is the colourful little town of Killarney.
Optional Experience: Experience a Jaunting Cart Ride / Celtic Steps / Irish Ceilidh Evening
Day 4: A Scenic Day on the Ring of Kerry (Breakfast)
- Circle the spectacular Ring of Kerry – its emerald green hills, centuries-old stone villages and vivid blue seascapes provide a soul-stirring backdrop.
- We’ll see Daniel O’Connell’s Cahirciveen, Moll’s Gap and the Black Valley, renowned for being the last place in Ireland to get electricity and telephone networks.
- Consider joining an Optional Experience to Muckross House and its beautiful gardens.
- Enjoy taking in the towering azaleas and rhododendrons, alongside the shores of the lake.
Included Experience: See the Ring of Kerry
Optional Experience: Visit Muckross House and its Gardens
Day 5: Explore Blarney and Journey to Waterford (Breakfast/Dinner)
- Cross the rugged Kerry Mountains and travel to Blarney Castle to kiss the stone and acquire the ‘gift of the gab’.
- Continue to Waterford, where we will have dinner at our hotel.
Included Experience: Visit Blarney Castle
Optional Experience: Irish Folk Fun
Day 6: Through County Wicklow’s Countryside to Dublin (Breakfast/Dinner)
- Dive Into Culture and witness the centuries-old tradition of crafting fine glass at the House of Waterford Crystal.
- Here we will watch the talented master crafters in their workshop creating exquisite pieces.
- Our next stop is in the town of New Ross, where we’ll see the monument to John F. Kennedy who travelled to his ancestral family hometown in 1963.
- We’ll visit the three-masted famine ship Dunbrody and Dive Into Culture yet again, gaining insights into the tragic plight of the Irish emigrants who fled the potato famine during the 1800s.
- Continuing through County Wexford and the lush countryside of County Wicklow, we journey to Dublin stopping en route at Glenealy Farmhouse.
- We’ll Connect With Locals over a Be My Guest Farewell Dinner and meet the Fulvio family.
Included Experience: Join the Fulvio Family at Glenealy House to Enjoy Traditional Irish Fare with an Italian Twist and New Ross Visit
Optional Experience: Explore Waterford’s History
Day 7: Farewell Ireland (Breakfast)
- For now, it’s time to say a fond slán abhaile to your fellow travellers as you close the curtain on an unforgettable journey through the ‘Emerald Isle’.
Departure Transfer: Arrive at the airport at 07:00, 09:00, 11:00
- Day 1: Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge/Hampton by Hilton Dublin City Center (Your hotel will be dependent on your departure date)
- Day 2: Greenhills Hotel Conference and Leisure Centre
- Day 3 – Day 4: International Hotel Killarney/Hotel Killarney (Your hotel will be dependent on your departure date)
- Day 5: The Fitzwilton Hotel Waterford
- Day 6: Radisson Blu Hotel Dublin Airport
- Explore Dublin with a Local Specialist.
- Discover Galway, Limerick and Waterford.
- Visit Bunratty Folk Park, the Cliffs of Moher, Blarney to kiss the stone and gain the ‘gift of the gab’, the Crystal Showroom at Waterford and the famine ship in New Ross.
- View St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and King John’s Castle in Limerick.
- See the Cathedral of Galway and St. Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick.
- Scenic Cruise across the Shannon Estuary.
- Scenic Drive of the Ring of Kerry.