Ireland Art and architecture Trips

This was an excellent 15-day tour which captured all the best of Ireland and Scotland, its castles, landscapes and history. It is value for money and surpassed my expectations, and some of the hotels and meals offered were top class. Having been on a couple of Insight Vacations tours previously, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this tour. I certainly would opt to go on other Trafalgar Tours and have my sights on Turkey, Spain, Portugal, South Africa and South America. Alas, being retired, I have to stretch my finances and hopefully, can achieve my goals in the next five years. The tour itinerary was remarkable in that it included all the famous sites that a two-week tour can capture. Starting with bustling Dublin and the enthralling Irish music, dance and humor cabaret, we went to Waterford and saw, amongst other products, the crystal replica of the Ashes trophy, the holy grail of cricket, fought over regularly between the Australians and English. Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone story did not disappoint either. The drive around the Ring of Kerry and seeing the spectacular scenery, stopping at Galway, Derry / Londonderry, walking on the slippery stones of the Giant's Causeway, absorbing the history of Ireland, N Ireland and Scotland, a visit to Stirling Castle, Isle of Skye, Loch Ness and finally climaxing with the Edinburgh Military Tatoo. What a blast!!

I was so delighted to share in the experience with 40 other wonderful people. The tour was well planned and the experiences we had were wonderful as well as educational.

We enjoyed our tour very much. The sights were interesting with a nice variety. The accommodations and food were very enjoyable as well. The tour was well organized and we had an excellent tour guide () and an amazing and skilled bus driver (). They worked so well together, by the end of the trip we all felt like one big family.

We can learn from the lessons of Northern Ireland. Sectarian strife led to terrible violence and loss of life during the troubles. Left unaltered the direction in which the United States is heading can lead to an idealogical divide that can turn violent. This tour gave great insight into these issues with the excellent local guides as well as the comprehensive overview provided by our everyday guide.

A quick trip to get a basic feel for Ireland -our trip was made even better because of great, exceptional driver and tour director and mix of people on tour. Her delivery of history, story and facts went above and beyond.

Excellent tour, Country roads of Ireland with great comprehensive info given by our fabulous tour guide ! Also a great sense of humour and extra suggestions thrown in. Driver very accommodating and generous. The only hiccup was our airport transfer post tour ...Insight needs to make clear that if your flight is more than 3 hours from their transfer it is NOT included...unless you want to wait at the airport for 5 hours! They only do earlyish morning transfers ( around 0600, 0900).. Hence we had to pay extra for transfer...