Ireland's Castles Tour is a fully escorted and fully customized luxury tour for a party of four. The standard tour is seven nights, all spent in luxury castles and manor houses. You can choose your own destinations, but the basic tour includes such sites as Limerick, the Ring of Kerry and surrounding villages, Blarney Castle and the Rock of Cashel, Kilkenny Castle and the Cistercian Abbey of Jerpoint, William Butler Yeats' haunts at Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, Connemara, Galway, the Cliffs of Moher and Bunratty Castle. The tour includes all breakfasts and accommodations, travel with a driver in a Mercedes or other luxury car, a daily guide, overland travel costs, and booking services for dining and optional entertainment. The tour is fully customizable, and so is the fare. But in March 2010, the basic tour is $4,234.66 per person, based on four adults traveling together.
Small Escorted Tours of Ireland
Danesfort, Kilkenny, Ireland.
+353 56 7727322/+353 86 8577212
http://www.irelandescorted.com/itineraries/it5.php
My Guide Ireland offers the Irish Fling, an escorted all-inclusive seven-day, five-night tour by luxury coach that goes to Bunratty Castle, Limerick, the River Shannon, Killarney, Ross Castle, the Ring of Kerry, Kenmare, Blarney, Waterford (and crystal factory), Kildare and Dublin. You stay in castles and luxury guest houses. The tour includes all breakfasts, five dinners, guides, all entrance fees, a medieval banquet and horse-drawn jaunting cart ride, local taxes and single suitcase portage. As of March 2010, rates range from $929 per person, double occupancy.
My Guide Ireland
Unit 9 Curragh Commercial Park
Marsh Road Skibbereen
County Cork, Ireland
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PO Box 320217
100 Spring Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02132-0005 USA
800-727-2024
http://www.myguideireland.com/
Irish Melody is an 11-day family-friendly tour, limited to 15 people. You will visit pubs in Adare (children are permitted in Irish pubs), watch dolphins in Dingle, and ride a pony and trap in Killarney, where you can kiss the Blarney Stone. You'll also visit famous castles, the Cliffs of Moher, the Aran islands by boat, the Titanic's last port, the sights of Dublin and more. The fare includes all first-class accommodations, breakfasts, coach and driver, entry fees and a castle dinner. Basic tour starts at $2,838 per person as of March 2010; children travel at a reduced fare, and the cost changes seasonally.
Lynott Tours
205 Mineola Blvd, Suite 1B
Mineola, New York 11501 USA
800-221-2474 or 516-248-2042
www.lynotttours.com/
