2012 - 9 Day Irish Welcome Tour
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Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet
Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet
The evening begins with a mead reception in the Great Hall of the 15th century castle,
followed by a four-course meal with wines. Entertainment is provided by the world renowned
Bunratty Castle Entertainers accompanied by harp and violin.
Kate Kearney’s Cottage Dinner & Music
Kate Kearney’s Cottage Dinner & Music
Nestled at the Gap of Dunloe lies Kate Kearney’s Cottage, a 150-year-old family-run establishment.
Enjoy excellent food with traditional dishes, entertainment with songs, musicians playing guitar and
other stringed instruments and a display of costumed Irish dancers featuring reels and jigs.
The Abbey Tavern Traditional Show
The Abbey Tavern Traditional Show
’Traditional Irish Night’ offers a 4-course Irish dinner including Irish coffee.
The show features the world-famous Abbey Tavern singers and musicians with a lively performance of music,
song and the very best of Irish dancing.
Killarney Home Stay
Titanic Walking Tour
Titanic Walking Tour
Cobh was the last scheduled stop for the Titanic and this gentle stroll will tell you about emigration
and local conditions and show you original buildings, streets and piers associated with the famous liner ?
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Lusitania Peace Memorial and Titanic Monument.
Clonmacnoise Monastery
Clonmacnoise Monastery
This great monastery was founded in 548 by St Ciaran and was a great centre of learning in medieval times.
Many manuscripts were written there. Today see three high crosses and the ruins of a cathedral,
seven churches and two round towers set on a mound beside the River Shannon.
Cliffs of Moher
Cliffs of Moher
One of Ireland’s top visitor attractions, the cliffs are 700 feet high and extend
for 5 miles over the Atlantic Ocean on the western seaboard of County Clare. O’Brien’s
Tower stands proudly on a headland and one can see the Aran Islands, Galway Bay and Connemara.
The cliffs are home to major colonies of cliff nesting seabirds.
Guinness Storehouse & a Pint
Guinness Storehouse & a Pint
This building was constructed in 1904 to house the fermentation process.
In November 2000 it opened as a tourist attraction where you can follow
the various stages of producing Guinness on five floors before ending in
the rooftop Gravity Bar to sample a pint of draft Guinness.
Superior & First Class Hotels/B&Bs:
Stay at the following or similar:
IE-CLA-BCA
Bunratty (1 night)
IE-DON-TCH
Killarney (2 nights)
IE-KIK-ORM
Kilkenny (1 night)
IE-DUB-BHB
Dublin (2 nights)
IE-GAL-GHA
Galway (2 night)
Tour Includes:
Airport transfers at start and end of tour
Sightseeing by luxury coach
Professional tour director
8 nights in hotels/B & Bs listed above
Full breakfast daily except on day 1 (B)
6 dinners (D) including
- Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet
- Dinner & show at Kate Kearney's Cottage
- Traditional Irish evening with dinner/show at the Abbey Tavern
- 1 home-style dinner in Killarney
- 2 table d'hote dinners
Lunch at Eddie's Pub in Clonbur (L)
Welcome get-together drink
Ferry ride across the River Shannon
?Titanic?? walking tour of Cobh
Tour of Dublin with a local guide
Tea and scones at Rathbaun Farm
?The Quiet Man? walking tour of Cong
Dublin open-top bus tour with a visit and drink at Guinness Storehouse or Old Jameson Distillery
Visits and admissions to Cliffs of Moher, Skellig Experience, Blarney
Woollen Mills, House of Waterford Crystal, Kilkenny Castle, Kilmainham Gaol and Clonmacnoise
Deluxe carry-on backpack, ticket wallet, luggage tags & strap
All local taxes, hotel service charges & porterage for one suitcase per person
Stay at the following (or similar)
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