Irish Gold Reviews

This is the first review we have written about a tour guide in several years, and we are a well-travelled couple fast approaching our 80s who have paid lots of excellent visits to numerous places on most continents. Our affordable eight day and first-ever bus tour in Ireland was especially pleasurable because our hotels were excellent, but, most important, ...read more because the tour guide Marlene Sullivan was so phenomenal and unforgettable inspiring words such as articulate, in love with her home country and what she was showing us (even if she was conscious of some of its inevitable flaws), imaginative, funny, candid, historically well-prepared, friendly - the entire tour package. Marlene deserves the highest marks possible, and, if we go back to Ireland, we will try to sign her up for a few days, except that we have probably reached a point, sadly, where rising every morning around 6am may be more than we want to handle.

We have finished our Irish Gold tour and it was superb. Great hotels and very full days seeing the areas we were in and hearing about the history of Ireland. Tommy our guide looked after us well, ensuring we were all happy, and our driver, Sean, was excellent. Well done. The best of two bus tours we have done.

We just finished our 8 day tour of Ireland and we had such a great time. John was our driver and we felt very safe with him. Sabina was our tour guide. Sabina is very knowledgeable and organised, and she knows how to keep everyone feeling happy whether it was raining or sunny. The hotels were really great and food was excellent. Lots of sheep and beautiful ...read more green hills. The Irish people are ready to party and love to tell their jokes!! Thanks for a wonderful week.

I want to praise our driver/tour director Sean Flood. He was absolutely fantastic!!! This is the first tour of this kind that I have taken and will definitely take another if all of CIEÆs drivers are of his calibre. His humour, depth of knowledge, warmth and caring attitude were fantastic. He made sure we knew all the areas we travelled through and ...read more gave us more than enough information, fun anecdotes and interesting tidbits about Ireland and its people. I feel so blessed to have met him and would gladly take another tour with him. His humour was so much fun and I enjoyed all of his stories. I will forever have fond memories of this trip. I was stationed in England and went to Scotland and Wales and always wanted to visit Ireland. This was the perfect way to do it, mostly because of Sean.

Just returned from the CIE Irish Gold Coach Tour. It was superb, beyond all our expectations. We enjoyed all the places we visited, and the hotels as well as the meals were very nice. It was a truly memorable trip and all the more so thanks to the amazingly kind, witty, efficient and learned tour director, Sabina Murphy. The driver, Collin, was also ...read more amazing. He looks like James Bond (Daniel Craig) but drives like an angel--very very smooth indeed. My daughter and I get motion sickness easily so we feared the worst (going through those narrow, winding roads), but it was not long before we realised that we were in safe hands. So we had a fantastic time. We were able to enjoy the scenery while being briefed about many fascinating aspects of Irish history, politics and culture. Highly recommended to anyone who wishes to discover and enjoy Ireland in a relatively short period of time.

We just returned from the ôIrish Goldö trip that started on October 4, 2017. We want to take a few moments of your time to tell you what an outstanding tour director we had in Marlene Sullivan! She was amazing! Her success was based first, on her warm personality, secondly, her depth of knowledge, and finally, on her desire that all of us have a great ...read more trip. Well, we did have a great trip! Marlene is a great ambassador for CIE Tours!

A terrific tour that gave a real insight of the true Ireland. Having lived through the 'troubles' in England in the 70s it was very enlightening to hear the other side of the story. Our hotels were of a good standard with very helpful staff and our luggage was always where it should be. On our trip we were extremely lucky to have Frank as our driver/guide ...read more who was a wealth of knowledge and an extremely good driver plus he had a lovely dry wit. He was the icing on the cake for our trip.

A brochure can only give you so much, but the trip itself went above and beyond expectations! I was the only South African placed with this group and also the youngest amongst the hipper older generation. But I loved every minute of it. I became the 'Tech Expert' with all their fancy cameras and cell phones. But despite that I have made incredible friends ...read more for life and all because of eight days in Ireland. There was never a dull moment, always crazy moments!

My wife and I have just returned home from a very memorable tour CIE tour of Ireland. We had a wonderful trip largely due to the outstanding tour guide Liam Murray and the superb driver Sean Flood - a real credit to CIE and the Irish Tourist Board. We saw lovely towns, cities and sights in Dublin, Galway, Killarney and Waterford and even the weather ...read more was kind to us despite being the first tour of the CIE 2015 season. All the very best and we hope to return to Ireland one day, meanwhile rest assured we will tell our family and friends both in England and Spain that the tour was excellent. Highly recommended.