Holidays in Ireland

The Belfast Bounty (D)

My wife and i have just returned from the Belfast Bounty tour. It was an absolutely excellent tour yet again. Very good hotel, nicely situated for night life, which we took advantage of. Andy, our Lakeside driver, was excellent yet again. The tours were superb. Titanic experience fantastic, Belfast tour excellent, Giants causeway tour excellent, Bushmills distillery tour fantastic, Londonderry visit and tour brilliant, especially the guided walking tour by John. We will do this tour again

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Dear all Our 6 day trip to Ireland was very enjoyable. The booking staff were informative & helpful. The Lakeside coach from Ellesmere was very comfortable & the driver Paul was excellent. He was very friendly, he put the electric wheelchair on & off the coach always (which he didn’t have to do)& he gave us brief information before we got to places. He made us laugh a lot. He also gave us his contact details if we had a problem. Before we returned to Shropshire he gave us estimated times of drop offs if no hold ups & revised times when we were closer to home, which was very useful for our onward travel. The 2 Hotels we stayed in, Talbot Hotel in Carlow & Westlodge Hotel in Bantry were excellent, the accessible rooms with wet rooms were very spacious, the food in the evening & for breakfast was excellent with plenty of choice. The location of the Bantry Bay hotel was excellent as we were walking distance into town (the Carlow Hotel was en route & therefore we had no time to explore because of timings of arrivals & departures) The excursions were very good. We had plenty of time in Cork. We had as much time as we wanted at Bantry House & Gardens & had the choice of being transported to & from the Town at certain times, or back to the Hotel, or we could make our own way to Town & back to the Hotel which we did. We could have used the leisure facilities at the Hotel if we wanted to. Our boat trip to Garinish Island was wonderful. The 2 staff on the boat were very helpful loading & unloading the electric wheelchair on & off the boat & we were given the opportunity to see many seals & a fish eagle reasonably close & for a brief time in their natural environment. The Island itself was lovely, we just about had enough time to explore most of it, working out the accessible routes to each attraction- we were advised that it wasn’t all accessible. The coach journey over the scenic Beara Peninsula was excellent & the time in Kenmare Town was enough & enjoyable. The time we had in Kilkenny & the Castle were plenty & very enjoyable. On our last day we had plenty of time at our comfort stops before going back to the ferry which was an added bonus. Paul worked out our comfort breaks very well. The 2 ferry crossings were good & we believe Stena were very good dealing with one of our fellow coach passenger’s who needed medical attention when we were on the ferry which was good to know. Please feel free to use any of our above comments. Kind regards, Andy & Wendy Chilton

The Belfast Bounty (A)

Excellent trip. Driver Jamie went out of his way to ensure we had the best time. He really was brilliant. Trip to Belfast and city tour with Paul was informative emotional and entertaining. Would really recommend this trip. Once again another wonderful break. Thank you GB Tours