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Mystical Ireland 8 Day Coach Tour
Tour Highlights
- Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet
- Belfasts Titanic Quarter
- Giant’s Causeway
- Achill Island Tour
- Historic Derry walking tour
Day 1: Arrive Ireland & Dublin Sightseeing
Arrive in Dublin Airport, complete immigration formalities and pick up your luggage. Go to the CIE Tours desk in the Arrivals Hall to arrange a group transfer to your hotel between 7:00 am and 12:00 noon. If your flight arrives later, you will need to transfer to the hotel at your own expense. At 2:00 pm enjoy a tour of Dublin. Visit Dublin Castle’s State Apartments where a guide will relate events from Irish history as you walk through gracious Georgian chambers.
In the evening meet your fellow travellers over a welcome drink and your tour director will help you choose a restaurant to dine independently.
Day 2: St. Patrick Centre & Belfast
Drive north past the Mourne Mountains to visit Down Cathedral and see the reputed burial place of St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint, marked by a huge boulder. Then learn about his life and times in the nearby St. Patrick Centre. Visit the Stately mansion of Castle Ward then drive to Belfast and check in to your hotel in the centre of this thriving city. Enjoy some free time to look around on your own. The imposing City Hall is within easy walking distance and the ornate Victorian pub, Crown Liquor Saloon, is just across the street. (B, D)
Day 3: Belfast & Titanic Quarter
Enjoy a tour of Belfast where you’ll see Belfast’s Victorian buildings, the Harland and Wolff Shipyards, where the Titanic was built, the Shankill and Falls Road.
Visit Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, newly opened for 2012, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the building of the famous liner. Your afternoon is free for personal sightseeing. (B,D)
Day 4: Giants causeway & Derry
Drive north along the “Nine Glens of Antrim,” for lovely views of mountains, valleys and coastline. Stop at the Giant’s Causeway, hexagonal columns formed by volcanic activity which have spawned legends about the mythical giant, Finn McCool. Continue to Derry and join a local guide for a short walk around the city centre and its medieval walls and learn about the city’s long History. (B, D)
Day 5: Donegal & Westport
Travel through the rugged countryside of Donegal to visit Triona design for demonstrations of spinning and knitting and an Irish Coffee. Pause at the grave of W.B Yeats. Travel through Counties Sligo and Mayo to your hotel in the centre of Westport where you will have some free time to explore this attractive estate town, which was laid out in 1780. (B, D)
Day 6: Achill Island & Westport house
After a late breakfast travel around Clew Bay to Achill Island, joined to the mainland by bridge. Follow the Atlantic Drive to capture wonderful views of steeply-sloped mountains plunging into the shimmering Atlantic Ocean. Near Slievemore see the Deserted Village, the remains of nearly 100 stone cottages abandoned around the time of the 1840’s Famine. Return to Westport to tour the Stately Westport House . (B, D)
Day 7: Cliffs of Moher & Bunratty Medieval Banquet
Travel to Galway City for a panoramic tour and free time. Drive through the limestone hills of the Burren to view the Poulnabrone Dolmen, a pre-Christian burial site. Walk along the majestic Cliffs of Moher, a rocky wall that rises nearly 700 feet above the foaming Atlantic Ocean. At Bunratty check in to your hotel, right beside 15th century Bunratty Castle, the Bunratty Folk Park and Durty Nelly’s Pub. Head to Bunratty Castle for a jolly medieval-style dinner where the lords and ladies serenade you. (B, D)
Day 8: Depart for Home
Take a group Transfer to nearby Shannon Airport where your tour concludes at 10:30 am (B)
YOUR TOUR INCLUDES
- Transfers on arrival and departure
- Sightseeing by luxury coach throughout
- Services of a professional Irish tour director
- Superior first class hotels with private bath/shower for 7nights
- 7 Full Irish breakfasts (B)
- 6 dinners (D) including:
- Medieval banquet and entertainment at Bunratty Castle
- 5 table d’hôte dinners
- Welcome get-together drink
- Tours of Dublin and Belfast
- Walking tours of Derry with a local guide
- Day tour to Achill Island
- Visits and admissions to Dublin Castle, Down Cathedral, St. Patrick Centre, Castle Ward, Titanic Quarter, Giant’s Causeway, Triona Design, W.B Yeats grave, Westport house, Poulnabrone Dolmen & Cliffs of Moher
- Deluxe flight bag, ticket wallet, luggage tags & strap
- All local taxes, hotel service charges & porterage for one suitcase per person
YOUR HOTELS
Stay at the following (or similar):
- Conrad Hilton Hotel, Dublin (1 nights)
- Europa Hotel, Belfast (2 nights)
- City Hotel, Derry (1 night)
- Hotel Westport, Westport (2 nights)
- Bunratty Castle Hotel, Bunratty (1 night)
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