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The Pipes Are Calling: Attend A 10-Day Traditional Irish Music Tour
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
The traditions of Irish music offer a full body experience embracing heritage and spirit with upbeat tempos for a jig or slow melodies for a ballad. Your custom tailored Irish tour creates an immersive musical experience of seisún and céilí, to celebrate both informal musical gatherings and those moments that make you want to get up and dance. Discover customs and legacy at Blarney and Bunratty Castles, walk along the enchanting landscape of the Cliffs of Moher and listen to new songs with a classic style that promotes new legends of small towns when indulging in the traditional music of Ireland.

Essential Ireland Vacation Package
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
Dance along to the Gaelic beat as you explore the very best of Ireland with evocative histories, wild landscapes, and vibrant evenings spent with the locals. Think rugged roads, beautiful ruins, dramatic settings, and the windswept Atlantic coast all coming together for an unforgettable vacation. Enjoy overnight stays in a castle, a medieval thatched town, the lively capital, and the Gaeltacht region, and in ten days you can explore the range of Irish highlights, spending your evenings with dancing, storytelling, and old Gaelic charm.

Ireland for Families: Charming Castles and Countrysides
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
Ireland is wonderfully conducive to a family vacation as tranquil green spaces, soft adventures, and local traditions bring everyone together. Handcrafted to include a little of everything, this flexible Irish tour is based around three distinctive castles as Dromoland provides heritage and bliss, Ballyseede shows you County Kerry and Dingle, and then Waterford offers the pastoral interior. So take it slow and get to know the real Ireland as a family with a lively visit around a welcoming country.

History and Culture Tour: Experience Ireland
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
With ten days in Ireland, you can travel through 5,000 years of evocative history. Explore stone-age passages and portal tombs, the early Celtic and Munster kings, Vikings, and medieval castles. Take in thatched-roof towns and Georgian splendor alongside stories of19th-century famine and flight with early 20th-century rebellion. Connect all the dots on this private tour uncovering histories yet to be told. Including Dublin, Newgrange, Tara, Strokestown, Kylemore, The Burren, Ennis, Adare, Cashel, Cobh, and Waterford, your whirlwind through history will prove relaxing and memorable.

Ireland 10-Day Tour: Off the Beaten Tracks
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
The wild west of Ireland is where the Atlantic Ocean waves crash against towering cliffs and dramatic landscapes present with baffling beauty. Surreal rocks at The Burren, the untouched Aran Islands, lush and rugged Dingle, and Kenmare Bay’s seals and cliffs will all be yours to take in and enjoy. Ireland has a coastline of endless highlights, and every element will be celebrated on this private tour. Hike, cycle, drive and cruise through the landscapes and then spend the evenings in castles and manor houses for an incredible Ireland vacation.

Best Ireland Castle Vacation: Living like Royalty
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
Irish castles are fixed in time and space as history whispers from every wall as grandeur meets an old, pastoral charm. Each is an attraction, and each is also an experience as you are immersed in the history of these castles of Ireland tour. Handcrafted to include the country’s finest castle hotels, the 10-day journey takes you around the Irish highlights in private luxury. Spend your days exploring and your evenings unwinding in your castle, feeling that little bit more Irish every day.

Enchanting Irish Family Vacation
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
Tap dancers, treasure hunts, famous castles, and endless landscapes are all yours to enjoy on this handcrafted tour. Storytellers spin yarns and your kids will spin pottery wheels, and then an amphibious WWII vehicle takes you into Viking history before you experience many classic Irish traditions. Travel at a relaxed pace with three nights in three different destinations, with private experiences and the chance to stay in real castles.

Ireland Tour for Solo Travelers: Dublin, Killarney, Galway & More
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
A fire crackles inside the boisterous pub, filled with locals telling stories for everyone to hear. A new face is always welcome and invited to share a drink and a tale, whether fact or fiction, no one could ever say. This custom tailored Ireland tour for solo travelers through Dublin Killarney and Galway takes you through the sociable world of Ireland, where legends are as factual as history and as lyrical as songs. Traverse epic cliffs and visit medieval castles, where you will soon understand how easy it is to blend history and legend, storybook and scenery.

Wonderful Ireland Vacation
10 Day Custom Tour
From $3,995
Listen carefully, and you can hear it: a tin whistle over the roar of the sea at the base of soaring cliffs. A gentle lilt of a Dubliner following the soft whoosh of a handloom. The clopping of horses’ hooves in the morning and the eclectic sounds of a Killarney pub as the sun goes down. These are the sounds of Ireland, a country with a rich history and a soul that reaches down into the depths of Ireland’s culture. After one day on the Emerald Isle, and you’ll wonder why anyone would ever leave. Discover for yourself on this Ireland vacation tour that's been crafted for 2020.
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The best time to visit Ireland is in April, May, September, or October.
Ireland is lively and authentic, scenic and inviting, with a rich heritage influenced by the land, the sea, and the shifting seasons. The mild but distinctive changes in weather throughout the year feel more dramatic depending on the region, from windswept winter cliffs to soothing summer rain, with each new day providing a new opportunity to explore and experience the landscape.
The Irish coast and fairytale villages welcome travelers year-round, with the best time to visit Ireland is guided by what you wish to see and do when exploring the treasures of Ireland.
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Ireland is all charm, history, and delight with incredible hospitality. Charismatic villages rise from lush hills and stand out against the dramatic seaside while medieval castles bring to mind epic battles and rich history. Vibrant local culture brings music and stories, while the past makes itself known with breathtaking prehistoric monuments and preserved legends.
During your Irish adventures, you will come to learn about the whimsical folklore in Cork and Dingle, uncover the history of Galway, embrace the spirit of Dublin, and more.
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