Depart U.S. for Dublin Dublin Tour & Dublinia Rock of Cashel & Blarney Woollen Mills Dingle Peninsula Tour Flying Boat Museum & Cliffs of Moher Connemara & Catamaran Cruise 6th Century Clonmacnoise & Abbey Tavern Depart for Home or Extra Day in Dublin
Optional Add-on: Spend an extra day in Dublin at the end of your tour!
Enjoy a leisurely pace as you spend 2 nights in Killarney, Galway and Dublin. Tour Dublin with a local guide and explore the ancient Rock of Cashel, the awesome Cliffs of Moher, the monastic site of Clonmacnoise and much more. You also have the option to add a third night in Dublin at the end of your tour.
**SALE PRICE: Save $50.00 per person on this tour if booked on or before March 17th 2010**
What's Included?
Group transfers on arrival and departure
Sightseeing by luxury coach throughout
Dublin open-top bus tour & Guinness or Jameson visit (9-day tour only)
Services of a professional Irish driver/guide
First class hotels with private bath/shower for 6 or 7 nights
Full Irish breakfast daily (B)
5 dinners (D) including - Traditional Irish evening with dinner and entertainment at the Abbey Tavern - 4 table d’hote dinners
Welcome get-together drink
Catamaran Cruise of Killary Fjord (Apr 1 - Oct 23 departures)
Tour of Dublin with a local guide
Whiskey tasting and tour of Old Jameson Distillery
Ferry ride across the River Shannon
Visits & admissions to Dublina & The Viking World, Rock of Cashel,Blarney Woolen Mills Blasket Centre, Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Cliffs of Moher, Connemara Celtic Crystal Facotry and Clonmacnoise.
Depart your U.S. gateway city in the evening and fly through the night to Ireland to start your vacation.
Day 2 Dublin Tour & Dublinia
Arrive at Dublin Airport, proceed through immigration and pick up your baggage. Go to the CIE Tours desk in the Arrivals Hall where personnel will arrange a group transfer to your hotel between 7:00 am and 12:00 noon. If you arrive later than noon, you will need to transfer to the hotel at your own expense. Your hotel is located on the north side of Dublin. At 2:00 pm join your group and a local guide for an introductory look around central Dublin. See fashionable shopping areas around Grafton and Nassau Streets, view Dublin's famous elegant Georgian squares with imposing townhouses and pause at the evocative figures at the Famine Memorial. Close to your hotel, explore Dublinia to learn about the history of the busy medieval city from the 12th to the 16th centuries through interactive exhibitions. Back at your hotel meet with your guide and fellow travelers for a welcome drink and discuss your itinerary.
Day 3 Rock of Cashel & Blarney Woollen Mills
Depart Dublin to travel through the Irish countryside where you can see the “Forty Shades of Green” as you pass many farms. Visit the Rock of Cashel, where Brian Boru was crowned King of Munster in 977. See the 12th century highlydecorated Cormac’s Chapel, the large cruciform cathedral and a round tower. Just outside Cork shop at the Blarney Woollen Mills, renowned for their quality Irish merchandise, or take a walk around the charming village green. While it is not included in the tour, you will have time to climb to the ramparts of Blarney Castle to kiss the famous stone. Continue your drive to your hotel in the center of Killarney. After dinner you may like to sample one of the many singing bars. (B, D)
Day 4 Dingle Peninsula Tour
Today discover the glorious Dingle Peninsula, made famous by two movies that showcased the scenery - “Ryan's Daughter” and “Far & Away.” Drive along the south shore to admire views of heathery mountains, sandy stretches of beach and rocky headlands. Stop for a while in Dingle before continuing to the Blasket Centre in Dunquin to learn about the offshore Blasket Islands, inhabited until 1953 by hardy families who eked out a living by farming and fishing. Return to Killarney and enjoy free time to use the hotel's leisure facilities or walk around town. After dinner you may like to visit the cozy pubs featuring live music. (B, D)
Day 5 Flying Boat Museum & Cliffs of Moher
Drive north through Listowel and along by the River Shannon to Foynes to visit the Flying Boat Museum, which recalls the early days of air travel, during the 1930's and early 1940's, when Pan Am Clippers from the United States and Europe landed here. Travel through the outskirts of Limerick and have a look around Bunratty Village before heading to the coast of County Clare to view the Cliffs of Moher rising to heights of almost 700 feet above the churning Atlantic swells. Walk along the top of the cliffs to O'Brien's Tower for great views. Drive through the Burren and around the shores of Galway Bay. Take a short orientation tour of central Galway before checking into your hotel. (B, D)
Day 6 Connemara & Catamaran Cruise
Today explore another of Ireland’s famous scenic regions, Connemara. Here the constantlychanging cloud formations give hills, lakes and peat bogs an added dimension. Travel alongside Galway Bay to Spiddal where most locals speak the Irish language. Pass the granite hills and sparkling lakes of the Inagh Valley on the way to Killary Harbour, Ireland’s only fjord. Take a short catamaran cruise to see unspoiled mountain areas. You can see traces of pre-Famine fields on the hilly slopes and also thriving salmon and mussel farming. At Connemara Celtic Crystal Factory watch skilled craftsmen cut the crystal and learn about the symbolism of the motifs before returning to Galway for some leisure time before dinner. (B, D)
Day 7 6th Century Clonmacnoise & Abbey Tavern
Drive to the center of the country to visit Clonmacnoise. This early Christian monastic site was founded by St. Ciaran in 545 AD, when Christianity flourished throughout Ireland. See round towers, church ruins and Celtic crosses with elaborate carvings, all in a picturesque setting on the banks of the River Shannon. Continue to the greater metropolitan area of Dublin once more and check into the same hotel. In the evening drive to the Abbey Tavern for a hearty dinner followed by a lively show of traditional music, songs and step-dancing. (B, D)
Day 8 Depart for Home or Extra Day in Dublin
For those of you booked on our 8-day tour, complimentary group transfers are provided to Dublin Airport to arrive at 6:00 am, 9:00 am or 12:00 noon. If you have booked our 9-day tour, spend an additional night in Dublin with an independent Dublin open-top bus tour pass (valid for 24 hours), a visit to Guinness or Jameson and a taxi transfer to Dublin Airport on final day. (B)
Spend an extra day in Dublin at the end of your tour. Includes additional overnight and full Irish breakfast at the Bewley’s Ballsbridge Hotel, independent Dublin sightseeing tour (ticket valid for 24 hours), a visit to Guinness or Jameson and taxi transfer to Dublin Airport.
2010 Dates & Prices. Prices are per person sharing. Please note tours are priced in US dollars regardless of your home currency. **SALE PRICE: Save $50.00 per person on this tour if booked on or before March 17th 2010**
From February 27, 2010To March 6, 2010$878
From March 13, 2010To March 20, 2010$948
From March 20, 2010To March 27, 2010$948
From March 27, 2010To April 3, 2010$948
From April 3, 2010To April 10, 2010$1,018
From April 10, 2010To April 17, 2010$1,018
From April 15, 2010To April 22, 2010$1,018
From April 17, 2010To April 24, 2010$1,018
From April 24, 2010To May 1, 2010$1,018
From April 29, 2010To May 6, 2010$1,018
From May 13, 2010To May 20, 2010$1,238
From May 15, 2010To May 22, 2010$1,238
From May 27, 2010To June 3, 2010$1,238
From June 3, 2010To June 10, 2010$1,278
From June 10, 2010To June 17, 2010$1,278
From June 19, 2010To June 26, 2010$1,278
From June 24, 2010To July 1, 2010$1,278
From July 8, 2010To July 15, 2010$1,278
From July 10, 2010To July 17, 2010$1,278
From July 17, 2010To July 24, 2010$1,278
From July 29, 2010To August 5, 2010$1,278
From August 5, 2010To August 12, 2010$1,278
From August 14, 2010To August 21, 2010$1,278
From August 28, 2010To September 4, 2010$1,278
From September 9, 2010To September 16, 2010$1,278
From September 11, 2010To September 18, 2010$1,278
Why purchase travel protection? The CIE Tours Plan…
Permits you to cancel your trip at any time prior to departure for a covered reason and up to 3 days before your scheduled departure for any reason not otherwise covered.
Covers direct air flights to and from your scheduled land tour departure and return cities even if the flights are not booked by CIE Tours, provided the flights are within 7 total days of the land tour dates and you cancel or interrupt your trip for a reason covered by the Travel Protection Plan provisions.
Protects you and your belongings while on your trip.
CIE Tours Trip Cancellation Waiver Benefit*
When you purchase the CIE Tours Travel Protection Plan at time of initial Trip deposit, you also qualify for the CIE Tours Trip Cancellation Waiver. This benefit allows you to cancel your CIE Tours travel arrangements up to 3 days before your scheduled departure for any reason not covered by the Travel Protection Plan. Under this benefit, CIE Tours will refund the amount of your cancellation penalty in CIE Tours travel certificates, with the balance of the refund made in cash or by credit card. CIE Tours Travel Certificates are non-refundable, valid for one year from date of issue (but no later than 15 months from the date your Trip was canceled) and may not be redeemed for cash. The waiver does not cover the single room supplement charge that is applicable if one person cancels from a twin room, which then becomes a single room. CIE Tours requires written notice of cancellation during normal business hours. This benefit covers only those arrangements purchased from CIE Tours. For cancellations for covered reasons, see below.
Trip Cost - Pre-Departure Trip Cancellation
Your own or that of a Traveling Companion or an Immediate Family Member - or for Other Covered Events, as defined, you will be reimbursed up to the Trip cost for cancellation charges imposed on travel arrangements provided by CIE Tours and/or an airline providing direct air flight to and from your scheduled land tour departure and return cities (even if the flights are not booked by CIE Tours), provided the flights are within 7 total days of the land tour dates.
Trip Cost - Post-Departure Trip Interruption
If you must interrupt your Trip after departure due to a covered Injury, Sickness or Death - your own or that of a Traveling Companion or an Immediate Family Member - or for Other Covered Events, as defined, you will be reimbursed for the unused, non-refundable land arrangements and the additional transport costs to return Home or to rejoin your Trip (limited to economy one-way airfare or first class, if original tickets were first class).
Trip Cost – Delayed Arrival
You are reimbursed for the additional transportation expense incurred and/or the unused, non-refundable land arrangements if your arrival on your tour is delayed beyond your scheduled arrival date, because of delay or cancellation by an air carrier due to inclement weather, mechanical breakdown or organized labor strike.
$500 Travel Delay
Provides benefits up to $100 per day for reasonable additional hotel accommodations, meals, telephone calls, and local transportation until travel becomes possible if you are delayed for more than 12 hours due to a covered reason such as common carrier delay; Injury, Sickness or Death of you or your Traveling Companion; quarantine; loss of passport, travel documents or money; natural disaster; or road closure by a government authority due to adverse weather conditions.
$25,000 Accidental Death & Dismemberment
These benefits are paid if loss occurs within 365 days of a covered Injury which occurs while on a CIE Tours Trip.
$100,000 Medical Expense/Emergency Assistance
Provides reimbursement for reasonable and customary medical expenses incurred within 365 days of a covered sickness which occurs while on your trip and for emergency dental treatment received during your trip; for the costs of emergency transport to home or an appropriate hospital, including escort expense (both, if deemed necessary by the attending physician), for a covered Injury or Sickness which occurs while on your trip; or the cost of homeward carriage if deceased.
$2,000 Baggage and Personal Effects
Coverage for direct physical loss or damage to your Baggage, passport or visas while on your Trip. A $500 maximum limit applies to jewelry; gems; watches; cameras and camera equipment; digital or electronic equipment; and furs - a $250 per article limit applies to all other items.
$250 Baggage Delay
If, while on your Trip, your Baggage is delayed for 24 hours or more, we will reimburse you up to $250 for the purchase of necessary additional clothing and personal articles. *CIE Tours Trip Cancellation Waiver Benefit is not available for groups of 15 or more.
Reserve the Irish Spirit Tour today!
RESERVING A TOUR
Please either fill out the contact form below or call us on our toll-free numbers: 1-888-771-8350 (US) or 0-808-101-4366 (UK) or +353 65 6844941 (Rest of World). A $250 nonrefundable deposit is required to reserve your tour. Please note that for all our escorted bus tours, you will be charged in US dollars.
DEPOSIT PAYMENTS
A non-refundable deposit of $250 per person, a payment in full on the airfare & a payment in full on the insurance is required for coach tours. Deposits are required within 4 days of making the reservation. Full payment is required to purchase your airline tickets.
FINAL PAYMENTS
Full payment must be made no later than 70 days prior to departure date. We accept payment by check or major credit cards. If payment is not received as scheduled, your reservation will automatically cancel and deposit payment become forfeit.
TRAVEL PROTECTION PLAN
Available for $99 or upwards per person, depending on the price of your tour. Permits you to cancel your trip for any reason at any time prior to departure up to 3 days before your scheduled departure. Within 3 days of you departure, you may only cancel for a covered reason such as illness. Under this benefit, you will be will refunded the amount of your cancellation penalty in travel certificates. You would be able to redeem these vouchers for a future trip. The balance of the refund would be made in cash. This plan also protects you and your belongings while on your trip.
LATE BOOKINGS
Tours booked between 30 & 14 days prior to departure date may incur a late fee of US$50.00 per reservation in addition to overnight delivery charges where necessary.
PARTICIPANT CANCELLATIONS
All cancellations must be advised in writing (by mail, fax or e-mail) to Authentic Ireland Travel prior to tour departure during normal business hours (9:00 am to 4:00 pm EST, Mondays through Fridays). Cancellations received within 70 days of departure date are subject to the following penalties on the land portion:
70 days or longer Forfeiture of deposit 69 - 46 days 25% per person 45 - 8 days 35% per person 7 - 1 days 50% per person On departure day 100% per person
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