IRISH EXPERIENCE

• Embrace your playful side and discover the allure of the lively Irish capital – a small city with a lot of heart and yours to explore before meeting your Travel Director and fellow travellers this afternoon for a sightseeing tour with your Local Specialist.
•  See the stately Georgian Squares and Trinity College before enjoying a Whiskey Tasting at a local distillery.
  The excitement will build this evening over drinks, good food and great company as your Travel Director gives you a taste of what’s to come.

Arrival Transfer: Depart the airport at 08:30, 11:00, 13:00

Welcome Meet your Travel Director at 14:15

Included Experience: Dublin City Tour

• Leaving the cosmopolitan streets of Dublin behind, we travel to Northern Ireland and the bustling city of Belfast, where you will have some free time to enjoy a spud for lunch or perhaps an Irish stew.
• Later, we meet our Local Specialist ‘Cabbie’ for an insider view of the city’s living history during a journey through its vibrant streets in a real taxi.
•  We spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure, or perhaps join an Optional Experience.

Included Experience: Discover Belfast with commentary from your dedicated Black Cab expert

Optional Experience: Belfast Walk with Fish and Chips

• Dive Into Culture during a visit to the award-winning Titanic Belfast Experience.
• Gain insights into the tragic story of the Titanic and its passengers who lost their lives in the icy Atlantic.
• We leave the city behind us, travelling along to the Giant’s Causeway for a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience as we walk in the footsteps of Finn MacCool.
• Our visit will help to conserve this iconic natural landmark. Take some time to admire the natural spectacle of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns before continuing to Londonderry, our home for the next two nights.

Included Experience: Discover the story of the Titanic at the visitor attraction in Belfast, Enjoy a meal at Broughgammon Farm with the Cole family, Visit Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland

Optional Experience: Dinner and Drinks in Londonderry

• Join your Local Specialist for a walk along the 17th-century city walls and see the formerly turbulent Bogside neighbourhood, with its street murals depicting the history of the ‘Troubles’.
• Spend a free afternoon walking along the pretty Foyle River or consider joining an Optional Experience to Inishowen Peninsula, with its rich history. This evening enjoy dinner at your hotel.

Included Experience: Londonderry City Tour

Optional Experience: Experience the Inishowen Peninsula

• Journey through the lush countryside to Belleek, where we’ll Dive Into Culture and witness talented pottery craftsmen create the exquisite collectables that have graced homes since the mid-19th century.
• Arrive in Galway later, where we will stay for the next two nights.

Included Experience: Discover one of the oldest working potteries in the word at the Belleek Pottery Visitor Center

Optional Experience: Trad on the Prom

• The rugged beauty of Connemara was captured in the film ‘The Quiet Man’ with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.
• Its loughs and mountains are yours to explore today during a scenic drive.
• We arrive at Kylemore Abbey later to visit the country’s most romantic castle and ramble through the hidden nooks of its Victorian walled garden.
• Returning to Galway, we enjoy some free time to explore its imposing stone Cathedral or stroll through Eyre Square, which John F. Kennedy visited in 1963.

Included Experience: Visit Kylemore Abbey, Stroll Through Galway

• Marvel at the towering Cliffs of Moher as they rise over 200 m (650 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean.
• Take part in a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience, gaining a deeper understanding of this UNESCO-listed landscape with your Local Specialist.
• At the ‘Atlantic Edge’ exhibition, discover how thousands of years of wind and sea shaped the cliffs, and enjoy views from the perspective of nesting seabirds who call this place home.
• Continue your journey along the Wild Atlantic Way, soaking up more coastal views before crossing the waters of the Shannon Estuary.
• Arrive in Killarney, where your evening is free to explore or you can opt in for a traditional Irish ceilidh, full of music, dance and craic.

Included Experience: Cliffs of Moher Guided Walk

Optional Experience: Irish Ceilidh Evening

• The soul-stirring landscapes of Iveragh Peninsula provide a mesmerising backdrop for our scenic coastal drive around the Ring of Kerry – an unimaginably beautiful natural setting.
• En route we will see Killorglin, famous for its annual ‘Puck Fair’, as well as Daniel O’Connell’s Cahirciveen, the fishing village of Waterville, the Black Valley and Moll’s Gap.

Included Experience: See the ring of Kerry

Optional Experience: Jaunting Cart Ride / Visit Muckross House and its Gardens

• Today you might acquire the ‘gift of the gab’, bending over backwards to kiss the Blarney Stone before we travel to Waterford. Admire the delicate creations of fine crystal during a visit to the House of Waterford Crystal where we will Dive Into Culture and witness a demonstration by master crafters.
• This evening, we arrive in Kilkenny with its imposing 12th-century castle, once the seat of the Butlers of Ormonde.

Included Experience: Tour the House of Waterford Crystal Workshop, Visit Blarney Castle

Optional Experience: An Afternoon of Irish Fun And Music (Craic Agus Ceol)

• After a morning exploration of Kilkenny, we depart for New Ross where we’ll see the monument to John F. Kennedy, who visited his ancestral family hometown in 1963.
• Dive Into Culture and gain insights into the tragic plight of Irish emigrants during the potato famine of the 1800s on our visit to the nearby three-masted Dunbrody Famine Ship.
•  Journey through the lush Irish countryside of County Wicklow, the ‘Garden of Ireland’, and back to Dublin where you’ll spend your final evening with travel companions sharing stories of your memorable journey through Ireland at a Farewell Dinner.

Included Experience: Discover the Tragic History of the Dunbrody Famine Ship, New Ross Visit

• It’s time to say a fond farewell to Ireland and newfound friends as you prepare to end your wonderful Irish experience.

Departure Transfer: Arrive at the airport at 07:00, 09:00, 11:00