Tour Reference: 201906-005 DATES: From Mon 3rd June 2019 to Fri 14th June 2019 (Flights Depart USA on Sun 2nd June 2019) 11 DAY PRIVATE CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN TOUR OF IRELAND WITH IRELAND US EXPERIENCE Personal Tour Of Dublin City DUBLIN Including Dublin Castle, St Patricks 2 Nights Clontarf Castle Hotel Cathedral, Haunted Walk GALWAY Merry Ploughboy Irish Night 2 Nights Forster Court , Galway Newgrange / Hill of Tara KILLARNEY Monasterboice 2 Nights Brehon Hotel, Killarney Athlone – Seans Bar TRALEE Boat Trip to Clonmacnoise 1 Night Ballyseede Castle Hotel, Tralee Galway: Clifden/Cong/Connemara CORK Clare : Cliffs of Moher By Sea, 1 Night Gabriel House Guest House, Cork Burren, Shannon Ferry, KILKENNY Dingle Peninsula including: Conor 2 Nights Bridge View B&B Kilkenny Pass, South Pole Inn, Dingle WICKLOW Ring of Kerry including Jaunting Car 1 Night Murphys Hotel, Tinahely Ride, Sheep Herding Demonstation Glengarriff & Cork Coast TOUR INCLUDES BlarneyStone/Castle/Woolen Mills Sightseeing With Your Own Personal Chauffeur Rock of Cashel, 11 Nights In Above Hotels Or Similar Full Irish Breakfast Daily (Except Arrival Morning) Kilkenny including Kilkenny Castle, Dinner & Show : Marry Ploughboy Irish Night Smithwicks Experience, Falconry Entrance Fees To All Attractions Listed Demonstation in Mount Juliet Welcome Bag & Meet & Greet Glendalough, Wicklow, Horticultural Centre, Dying Cow Pub Ireland US Experience Ltd Page 1 3 Rushbrook Crescent, Templeogue, Dublin 6W , Ireland Company Reg No. 559222 Website: www.irelandusexperience.com Email: [email protected] 11 DAY PRIVATE CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN TOUR OF IRELAND WITH IRELAND US EXPERIENCE Day 1 Sunday JUNE 2nd 2019 – DEPARTURE FROM THE USA Your adventure begins as you take to the air on your journey to the Emerald Isle. Day 2 Monday JUNE 3rd 2019 – DUBLIN - Tour of Dublin, Dublin Castle, St Patricks Cathedral, The Haunted Walk Welcome to Ireland! On your arrival in Dublin Airport this morning, you will met, by your chauffeur and guide for the duration of the tour. He will ease you into your trip by taking you on a tour of his native city, Dublin, taking in some its main sights and places of interest, including Christ Church Cathedral, the General Post Office (GPO) in O’Connell Street, headquarters of the Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, the Phoenix Park, which is the largest in-city park in Europe, where you can see the Irish ‘White House’, Aras an Uachtarain, and the Papal Cross commemorating the visit of the Pope to Ireland in 1979, whilst at the same time he will take you through the history of Ireland’s capital city. Our first major visit will be a guided tour of Dublin Castle, followed by a visit to St Patricks Cathedral. The evening will be rounded off by a spooky Haunted Walk around the city centre. Overnight : Clontarf Castle Hotel Day 3 Tuesday JUNE 4th 2019 – MEATH- Newgrange, Hill of Tara & Monasterboice High Cross Today we venture outside Dublin to the Boyne Valley in County Meath, where you will be taken on a guided tour by a local guide of some of Irelands oldest sites, including the megalithic passage tomb of Newgrange, pre- dating the Pyramids in Egypt, the Hill of Tara, former seat of the High Kings of Ireland and Monasterboice Monastery, famous for its ruins and High Crosses. We return to our hotel in Dublin for a chance to freshen up before heading out for a night of entertainment and a three-course meel at the Merry Ploughboy Irish Night, in the shadow of the Dublin Mountains. Overnight: Clontarf Castle Hotel Ireland US Experience Ltd Page 2 3 Rushbrook Crescent, Templeogue, Dublin 6W , Ireland Company Reg No. 559222 Website: www.irelandusexperience.com Email: [email protected] Day 4 Wednesday JUNE 5th 2019 – GALWAY Via Athlone Including Boat Trip To Clonmacnoise This morning, we will head off across the midlands of Ireland, stopping off in Athlone, located in the center of Ireland, for lunch,stopping off for a visit to Sean’s Bar, reputed to be the oldest bar in Ireland, before taking a boat ride from Athlone to the aincient monastic site of Clonmacnoise. From there you will be picked up and transported to your hotel in Galway, where you will have the evening free to enjoy the vibrant city life, or rest up for the evening. Overnight: Forster Court Hotel Day 5 Thursday JUNE 6th 2019 – GALWAY – Tour of Connemara Today we will travel around the Connemara Loop, driving initially along the Wild Atlantic Way coastal route to Clifden, and then through the wild Connemara countryside and Connemara National Park, stopping off at Maams Cross and Cong, location for the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man, before returning to your hotel for the evening. Overnight: Forster Court Hotel Cliffs of Moher – Sea View Day 6 Friday JUNE 7th 2019 – CLARE – Cliffs of Moher By Boat, Burren, AdareWe take our leave of Galway this morning, and head south into Counry Clare where we will get to view one of Ireland’s most iconic sights, The Cliffs of Moher, but see it as few others have seen it, from the ocean side when we take a bat trip along the length of the cliffs. The we are back on the road, heading south across the Burren, where its distinctive eco-climate has resulted in the growth of many rate plant species. We then continue towards the ‘Kingdom of Kerry’, as the locals like to call it, taking a shortcut across the Shannon Estuary on the Killimer to Tarbert Ferry before arriving in one of Ireland’s most famous towns, Killarney, where you will have the evening free to explore the town.. Overnight:: Brehon Hotel Killarney Ireland US Experience Ltd Page 3 3 Rushbrook Crescent, Templeogue, Dublin 6W , Ireland Company Reg No. 559222 Website: www.irelandusexperience.com Email: [email protected] Day 7 Saturday JUNE 8th 2019 KERRY – The Ring of Kerry, Sheep Farm and Muckross House Today we embark on a tour featuring some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, as we tour the famed ‘Ring of Kerry’, visiing high points like Lady’s View, Molls Gap, Waterville (where you may be surprisded to find a statue of Charlie Chaplin who spent many of his later summers there with his family), and viewl the Skellig Islands featured in the recent Star Wars movies. Along the way we will visit a sheep farm where you will get to see how the farm is run, and witness how the farmers use their sheep dogs to herd their flocks. We will finish up back in Killarney where we will visit the grounds of Muckross House in the National Park on the shores of the famed Lakes of Killarney where you will take a JauntingHorse Cart tour of the grounds and around the Lakes of Killarney. You will then have the evening free to enjoy the delights ofKillarney Overnight: : Brehon Hotel Killarney Day 8 Sunday JUNE 9th 2019 – KERRY- Dingle Peninsula, Brandon, Conor Pass, Dingle Today we travel out to the Dingle Peninsula full of spectacularly long beaches like Inch, used as a location in the movie Ryan’s Daughter,where we will travel to scenic Brandon Point, stopping off for a coffee in Murphys pub in the village of Brandon, located beside its pier. Then we will travel across the Conor Pass and down into the fishing town officially known as Daingean Uí Chúis, but better known as Dingle, that gives the peninsula its name, a town full of great charm and lots and lots of pubs and places to eat, particularly if you like sea food. On our way back we will stop off at the South Pole Inn pub in Annascaul, home of the Antarctic Irish explorer Tom Crean, who travelled on both the Shackleton and Scott expeditions. Our journey for the day ends when we arrive in Tralee where we book into out hotel for the evening, the 4 Star Ballyseede Castle Hotel. Overnight: Ballyseede Castle Hotel Ladys View, Ring of Kerry Ireland US Experience Ltd Page 4 3 Rushbrook Crescent, Templeogue, Dublin 6W , Ireland Company Reg No. 559222 Website: www.irelandusexperience.com Email: [email protected] Day 9 Monday JUNE 10th 2019 – CORK – Glenngarriff and Cork Coastal Route This morning we have a chance to rest on, as we will not be leaving the hotel until 12.00 noon, for our journey from Kerry to Country Cork, where we will visit scenic Glengarriff and take a leasurly dirve along the Cork coastline via the fishing villages of Cobh and Youghal to the city of Cork the capital of The Rebel County where you will have the evening free to enjoy the citys night life. Overnight: Gabriel House Guest House, Cork City Centre Day 10 Tuesday JUNE 11th 2019 – KILKENNY – via Blarney Castle & the Rock of Cashel We depart Cork, and make our way towards Kilkenny. Our first stop will at Blarney Castle, the location for the Blarney Stone, the kissing of which is reputed to give you the Gift of Elequence (or the Gift of the Gab as they call it in Ireland). While in the grounds of the Castle you will have the opportunity to visit the Blarney Woolen Mills, where some excellent examples of Itraditional and modern Irish fashions. Then we head northwards again, stopping off at another iconic Irish location, the Rock of Cashel, While most of the current buidings date back to the 12th century, it ws the seat of the High Kings of Munster, where famously one of the High Kings in the 5th century was reputed to have been converted to Christianity by Saint Patrick. Then finally, we move on to our destination for this evening, the “Marble City” of Kilkenny, where you are free to enjoy the facilities of your hotel for the evening.