Irish Adventure Reviews

From beginning to end we had great service from Global Journeys and then from CIE tours. Our consultant was easy to deal with and highly professional and personable responding quickly to our questions, CIE were also excellent. Our guide Brian was simply wonderful throughout. Thank you so much.

We booked our tour through Global Journeys. Tracey could not be more helpful, friendly and obliging especially as the booking was done around the Christmas period. All paperwork was handled professionally and efficiently. At all times Tracey was available for advice about the trip. The tour itself was wonderful. Brian was our tour director, guide ...read more and coach driver. He was highly knowledgeable, fun and kept us all on track and in the right place at the right time. We were delighted with both Brian and Tracey and the overall tour. Thank you so much.

I highly recommend this Tour company. It was so well organised and the Guide, Bryan, was superb. His stories, songs, and charming ways kept us informed and happy every day. We experienced the full tour of the Republic of Ireland as well as Northern Ireland in 8 days. It was a fully packed week of sights and sounds of Ireland. The hotels were well chosen ...read more - each charming and pleasant. Good breakfasts and dinners included. We would return and use this tour company again.

We booked our tour for 4 including 2 British and 2 Taiwanese as family holiday. I have to give Frank our tour guide 5 star since he really did a great job driving and very informative telling us about Ireland and Northern Ireland. I really enjoyed the Book of Kells in Dublin and The skelling experience. The view around the west coast just brilliant, ...read more wonderful view. I also really enjoyed the Londonderry the local tour showed us the historic part of Derry. All in all it was a great tour we really enjoyed it!

This is a very good tour to get a snapshot of Ireland. We feel that an extra day would be beneficial to explore the north of Ireland in more detail. For example a visit to the rope bridge near the Giant's Causeway, some free time in Belfast to see the city as an alternative to the Titanic Centre, then maybe visit the linen centre on the way south.

We joined this tour not knowing what to expect. However, the other 36 people on the bus (from United States, Australia, New Zealand and Belgium) and our wonderfully vibrant driver, Niall, made us feel welcome from the first moment we started gathering in the lobby of the hotel. This set the scene for a friendly and interesting week as we shared stories, ...read more photos and experiences. The quality of the tour guides who joined our trip at the various places kept us well informed and helped us appreciate each of the places we visited. Each one was knowledgeable and witty. The accommodation selected for us made our evenings comfortable, especially the hotels in Kilkenny and Galway! While every place we visited had a special appeal, we thoroughly enjoyed meeting 'real people' such as the Atlantic Sheepdog sheep farm and the Glyde Inn. These were ordinary people moving out of their comfort zone to engage in tourism and enable us to join in on ordinary life in rural Ireland. The coach was comfortable and glided along all types of roads - from the small-laned country roads to the freeways. Niall's skill in navigating was awesome!

Just a huge, huge thank you, what a fabulous Ireland tour, driven by the best ever Patrick, a very sharp man, helped to get this. A fantastic driver, same to hotels, food, highly recommend this tour to everyone. Such a majestic land and people, would love to do it all over again, with the very sharp Patrick.

We had a fantastic time, Frank our Driver Tour Guide was just great, accommodation and food provided was of a very high standard. Would thoroughly recommend to anyone looking for a great holiday in Ireland. We were very lucky and only had one day of rain which was the bus ride from Belfast to Dublin overwise the weather was perfect. Note great value ...read more for money.

Fantastic week with our American friends and Matt Nolan tour director in control. Everything was laid on so we didn't have to worry about what came next, Matt even helped direct us to the best places for food and pub entertainment on the times we had to look after ourselves, what a guy! Memorable visits keeping to the tour itinerary and deadlines helped ...read more everyone enjoy this memorable journey to the full. Greg's sing along on the coach was memorable, great fun. Thanks æguys and galsÆ.

The most wonderful experience in our lives thus far. Our guide come coach driver was superlative. He took great care of all 36 passengers. Having travelled with Cosmos, Trafalgar and Key West Travels we found this tour provided everything, all sightseeingÆs included, luggage carried to and from hotel rooms and advice at every step of the journey by ...read more our most valued guide. He regaled us with Irish history and anecdotes. And Ireland was very beautiful. Thanks CIE, remembrances forever.

We had a great time. Murt, our driver, guide and now friend, was wonderful. The sights of Ireland and its wonderful people were everything we hoped they would be. Murt helped us understand the culture and history in a way that was personal and relatable. We have already begun talking about our next CIE tour. Thanks to CIE, Murt and our fellow bus travellers ...read more for making our adventure truly a great experience.

This tour by CIE was fantastic. Great tour driver, excellent hotels and meals and we saw so much of Ireland. We could not have covered anywhere near as much by ourselves and the local knowledge was excellent. Highly recommended!!!

This was a great tour. The tour guide we had called Murt was great. So much knowledge, he remembered dates so well, very informative. He had such a good sense of humour and a good singing voice too!! The tour was well organised, hotels lovely where we stayed, plus good food. Very happy with this tour group and we have already recommended this tour company ...read more to other people.

What a wonderful experience we had. Everything so well organised. The hotels, meals and service were all first class. Last but not least, our wonderful tour guide/driver Murt. We were very impressed with Murt's extensive knowledge - a walking encyclopedia. His friendly manner made us feel very comfortable. Thank you Murt and thank you CIE for some great ...read more memories.

What a marvellous holiday we had touring around Ireland with a bus load of wonderful travellers - fellow Aussies, Americans, Canadians and Mauritians. Our tour driver/guide Dominic is a national treasure - his humour, knowledge and sense of humour along with amazing driving skills added to the enjoyment of this great adventure. The hotels and food were ...read more excellent - full marks to CIE.

What a wonderful taste of Ireland this was! We say ôtasteö because even though we spent eight days on the tour, we would love to do it all again or, better still, do another tour and visit different places. Our tour guide/driver Murt was just the best - his commentary was very informative but humorous enough to keep us interested and engaged. We appreciated ...read more his hard work to keep a large group like ours running smoothly. The hotels we stayed at and meals provided were first class, whilst the attractions we visited met and exceeded our expectations - like everything on this trip. We'd highly recommend CIE Tours International to anyone wanting to tour Ireland and we hope to be back sometime in the future.

I joined a tour leaving and returning from Dublin, heading south. What a great experience to see such wonderful locations, supported by a driver and guide with excellent knowledge of the history of Ireland. The stories and education were the best and our driver did not overload us with microphone conversation whilst on the bus. The accommodation was ...read more just as expected and not disappointing on the whole. I have only one location visited, which I might consider worth dropping, but otherwise every detail was both interesting and beautiful in its own way. A highlight was definitely the Medieval banquet dinner at Bunratty Castle I thought. What a lovely experience. This tour group really know what they are doing. The coach was comfortable and considering our big group (which the driver admitted) we all got on superbly well and no problems with him handling such a large group. No better way to really see Ireland and much better than any sort of self drive. The timetable is necessary to travel this way but the education and places found are beyond any self drive vacation.

My 2 young daughters and I enjoyed a wonderful bus tour a few weeks ago around Ireland, thank you very much to the bus driver David. I will highly recommend these tours to my friends and I would love to do another one with CIE one day. Thank you for the wonderful memories!

Having travelled with CIE in the past we knew the itinerary would be wonderful, completely filled with comfortable hotels, delicious food, and of course a full schedule and photo opportunities. The one thing that makes CIE better than other tour companies is their staff. Each of our tour guides were fun, informative and brought Ireland to life, but ...read more the person who really made this trip extraordinary was our driver/guide Murt. He made sure we found the best local food and fun every day. There wasn't a question he couldn't answer. He made us feel like family. I've been to Ireland before but learning its history and stories from Murt made me appreciate and love the country a hundred times more.