Ireland, one booking at a time.
Which Cliffs of Moher coach gets you there before the tour buses. Whether the Ring of Kerry is better from Killarney or Cork. What a distillery tasting actually pours. Every tour on the island, reviewed.
Dublin is where you sleep. The best days are three hours west.
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The Irish coach day is its own institution: out at seven, across the country, back for last orders. Three routes carry almost everyone, and they are not interchangeable.
The Cliffs, the Burren and Galway city
West through the midlands, an hour on the cliff path, then the limestone moonscape of the Burren and a stop in Galway before the road home.
Glendalough, the Wicklow Mountains and Kilkenny
A monastic city in a glacial valley, the mountain road over Sally Gap, and a medieval town with a castle on the Nore. The easiest full day from the city.
Blarney, the Rock of Cashel and Cork
The great limestone rock at Cashel first, then the castle gardens and the stone itself, with a run into Cork city if the timing holds.
The days Ireland is famous for.
The Atlantic cliffs, the black stuff at source, a distillery counter, the Kerry road, a castle with its own river, and a fiddle going in the corner of a pub. The handful of days most Irish trips are built around.
The Wild Atlantic Way, north to south.
Two and a half thousand kilometres of coastline with a number on every signpost. Most visitors take a slice of it. These are the stretches with the tours.
Donegal
Westport
Galway
Clare
Dingle
Killarney
CorkGalway is small. What it reaches is not.
A city you can cross in twenty minutes, with the Aran Islands off one shoulder and Connemara off the other. Tours leave from Eyre Square most mornings and are back before the pubs get going.
Ireland’s most popular tours.
Every Ireland review →More travellers book these than anything else on the island, and each one earns the day it takes.
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Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, including Wild Atlantic Way and Galway
Review of Dublin’s Cliffs of Moher and Galway day tour, with Wild Atlantic Way scenery, Burren stops, Wi-Fi, and practical tips.
From · $90
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Cliffs of Moher, Burren & Galway City Day Tour
from $89
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Guinness Storehouse Entry Ticket
from $34
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Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, Burren, Wild Atlantic Way, Galway Tour
from $94
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Kilkenny, Wicklow Mountains & Glendalough Day Tour from Dublin
from $48
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Wicklow Mountains, Glendalough & Kilkenny Tour
from $45
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Irish Rock ‘N’ Roll Museum Experience Dublin
from $26
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Dublin Highlights and Hidden Gems Guided Walking Tour
from $29
Irish whiskey came back from almost nothing.
A century ago Ireland had a few hundred distilleries; by the 1970s it had two. Bow Street, Teeling and Roe & Co are all working again inside Dublin, and Midleton runs the biggest pot stills in the country down in Cork.
Dublin rewards walking and an early ticket.
The Georgian squares, the Liffey bridges and the Book of Kells sit inside a square mile you can cross on foot. The queues are the only real obstacle, and they are all solvable the night before.
- 1Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, including Wild Atlantic Way and Galwayfrom $90
- 2Cliffs of Moher, Burren & Galway City Day Tourfrom $89
- 3Guinness Storehouse Entry Ticketfrom $34
What a day in Ireland costs.
Every tour on the site, sorted by what it actually costs. A city walking tour is the price of two pints; the coach across the country is the price of dinner.
Walking tours, cathedral tickets, distillery tastings and the Liffey boats. Most of Dublin sits in here.
The day-trip band: Glendalough and Wicklow, the Ring of Kerry out of Killarney, Connemara from Galway.
The long westward runs, private drivers, and the multi-day loops that take the whole coast in one go.
Things that only really happen in Ireland.
Castles and coastline you can find across Europe. A session that starts itself in the corner of a bar, a dog working a hillside on whistles, and a pony trap through a mountain gap belong to this island.
Trad, Played Live
A session is not a concert. Musicians arrive with instruments, sit in a corner, and play tunes they all happen to know, and the room carries on around them. The organised shows get you a guaranteed night with dancers and a set list, which is the right call on a short trip. Galway and Dublin both run them nightly; the unbookable version is still going in the back bar afterwards.
- 1Belvedere Irish Night Show, Dance and Traditional 3-Course Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,171 reviews
- 2The Irish Dance Party in Dublin★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 918 reviews
- 3Music and Dance Show at The Irish House Party★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 744 reviews
The Working Sheepdog
On a hill farm the dog does the job a dozen people could not, moving a flock across open ground on nothing but whistles and hand signals. Demonstrations run on working farms in Wicklow, Clare and Connemara, usually bolted onto a day trip. It takes about twenty minutes and it is the part of the day people describe afterwards.
- 1Kilkenny, Wicklow & Glendalough Tour & Sheepdog Show★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 2,599 reviews
- 2Glendalough, Wicklow, Kilkenny and Sheepdog demonstration★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,215 reviews
- 3Caherconnell Fort & Sheepdog Demonstrations★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 645 reviews
The Jaunting Car
Killarney still runs pony traps through the national park, and the drivers are licensed jarveys whose families have held the routes for generations. The Gap of Dunloe run is the classic: trap up through the pass, boat back across the lakes. It is slower than the bus and that is the entire point.
- 1Dublin to Wicklow, Glendalough Small Group Tour with Horse Riding★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 522 reviews
- 21-Hour Jaunting Car Horse and Carriage Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 361 reviews
- 3Kerry: Guided Horse Riding Tour in Killarney National Park★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 226 reviews
Ireland is green for a reason. Plan for the wet day.
The Atlantic sends weather across this island all year, and a forecast here is a suggestion. Nothing below cares what the sky is doing: a distillery counter, a cathedral nave, a crystal furnace, a museum, a room with a fiddle in it. Keep one of them in reserve.
Book these before you land in Ireland.
Most of the island can be sorted from your hotel the night before. These cannot. They run on timed slots, a fixed number of coach seats and a season that ends.
- 01Dublin Book of Kells, Castle and Molly Malone Statue Guided TourTrinity releases the manuscript on timed entry. Morning slots are the first to go and there is no standby queue.
- 02Guinness Storehouse Entry TicketThe most-visited attraction in the country, on half-hourly slots. Weekend afternoons close out days ahead.
- 03Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, including Wild Atlantic Way and GalwayA coach day with a fixed seat count, and in July and August the Dublin departures fill before the week starts.
- 04Trad on the Prom Ticket with Irish Music and DancingA single nightly performance in a small room. When it is full, it is full.
By place — where you are based
Dublin691 tours
Galway180 tours
Killarney152 tours
Cork95 tours
Dingle64 tours
County Clare33 tours
Kilkenny26 tours- All 13 Irish regions →
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