From Dublin to London Reviews

Our trip to Wales & Ireland exceeded all our expectations. Everything went like clockwork. The Tour Director was First Class. Even the weather was a bonus, no rain at all!

Wales, beautiful and trip bettered by tour director Hue and his abundant knowledge. Trip across aqueduct a highlight for myself and son. Dublin is a place I will return to and stay for a couple of weeks. Castle banquet great fun, as was jaunty ride. The trip exactly what I expected, an insight into places I may want to visit in the future. Thanks!

I was very impressed with the Tour Director and the Coach driver. Peter, the Tour Director, gave a great deal of very interesting information. He clearly knew a lot of English, Irish and Welsh history and I found this most helpful. He was always very pleasant to all passengers. Nigel, the driver, was very helpful with luggage and with getting off ...read more the bus. He appeared very calm when we had a problem with the bus, even though he may have been stressed. The optional extras were very good, although I found the Guiness tour a bit boring. The medieval banquet was wonderful, and the canal ride on the aquaduct was most interesting. I would like to have spent longer in Wales but I did realise, before I left, what was offered. I am not interested in shopping but being able to repeat a visit to the Roman Baths at Bath and the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-on-Avon, meant that I didn't have to just wander around these cities. Having decided to spend the night at the hotel from where we departed, I found the Cosmos representative, Stephanie very welcoming.

It was great! Nothing to organise, no decisions, no driving, everything done for you.... My kind of holiday. Thank you.

I had just completed a 26 day tour of Europe and was therefore able to compare two different companies, their coaches, the tour leader. The type of accommodation was only budget three star in Europe so the better motels in Wales/Ireland are not fair to compare, because of course they were more excellent. I can state though how nice it was to have the ...read more bags delivered to our door, to have lifts in all motels, and to have excellent dining rooms in each place, with great food (wow cooked breakfasts) (not just the Europe bread and cheese types of offerings.) Our tour guide was Tara, a wealth of information on the history of England, Wales and Ireland. She just shared what was in her head, very few notes, her memory was amazing. The coach had clean windows every morning, thank you Alex. My previous Europe Coach was not as good at ensuring excellent photo opportunities. The pace was fast, but then we had a lot to see in only a short seven days. I did not though appreciate having a place on the itinerary, such as Visit to Stonehenge and then find we had to pay to enter. If it is listed as a visit, then the price should be in the package. I heard a lot of complaints from coach passengers about the frequency of us having to dip into our pockets, and some of the prices seemed to be quite exhorbitant for what was offered. Especially the offer of a closing visit to Jersey Boys with a meal for 140 pounds. Good grief!! It would have to be a banquet for that! The extra events such as canal ride, Banquet in a castle, Visit Blarney Castle, Kiss the Blarney stone, Irish Pub (extremely dear) Guinness tour, were all excellent, and I am glad that I made the decision to do it all. Congratulations on a well organised tour. Top Marks.

Our tour director, Alley was absolutely fabulous. Her knowledge of Irish affairs and history is remarkable. I could have listened to her all day. All the accommodation and meals were first rate. I would recommend a Cosmos tour to anyone. I hope I will get the opportunity to go on more.

Great way to see heaps of sites without the stress of driving there yourself or finding accommodation.

We really enjoyed the tour we only wish it could have been longer and we could have seen more - a bit less rain would have been appreciated as well. The tour director and the drivers were very good and the tour director gave us a very good, comprehensive history of the areas we visited. We certainly wouldn't have appreciated half the things we saw if ...read more we hadn't had some idea of them being there and their significance. The hotels were all very good and the food was excellent - dinner had a choice of three entrees, main courses and desserts each night and the breakfasts were all buffet style with an excellent choice of full cooked breakfast, cereals, fruit etc. We did all the extra tours and the only one we felt wasn't as good as expected was the Guinness tour in Dublin - this could be because neither of us enjoy drinking beer or Guinness anyway but we also found the talk too hard to hear - the headsets weren't the best. I have been on 2 or 3 Cosmos/Globus tours previously and always enjoyed them and this was no exception. I would thoroughly recommend this sort of tour to anyone who wants to see a lot in a limited time. Thanks for your help in arranging the whole trip, your helpfulness and patience was very much appreciated.