4.6/5

Great Ireland tour

Excellent Ireland tour. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable, informative and a great story teller. We are definitely considering a return to Ireland in the future using CIE.

Well planned excursions

Very well planned, organized tours. Excellent and friendly guide & driver. Beautiful accommodations and coach

Taste of Italy was worth every penny!

This was our first tour, so we were unsure what to expect. CIE proved to be a fabulous tour and surpassed our expectations. We enjoyed hearing from excellent local guides and had a fabulous tour manager (Diana). While we would have loved to spend more time in each city, we did manage to hit so many of the highlights everywhere we went. We would need a month to see it all! Had we tried this on our own, we would have only seen a fraction of the sites that we did. CIE took all the planning work out of our trip and let us simply enjoy the ride.
Be prepared to walk A LOT but we were ready with comfy shoes and clothes. We logged anywhere from 6 to 12 miles a day (spending our free time each day seeing more of each city.)
We would highly recommend anyone interested in visiting Italy, especially for the first time, to join a CIE group and get a "taste of Italy."

Our tour guide and driver were great, very knowledgeable about their country and able to answer any questions we asked. Iceland is a beautiful country. The hotels were good and the food they provided was excellent. The biggest disappointment of the trip is that the one place where we could have had the best opportunity for viewing the Northern Lights we were at a hotel that would not wake us up and in fact didn't even have a phone in the room or an alarm clock we could set to wake us up.

I highly recommend CIE tours

I have never booked with CIE before but I definitely will from now on. The itinerary was easy to follow and everything went according to plan. Our tour guide, Patrick Smith, was so good and knowledgeable. He threw in humor and lots of information on Ireland. He never got tired of our questions and really made the tour so enjoyable.

Excellent tour, our guide was so knowledgeable about every aspect.

We’ll organized tour, guide and bus driver were excellent.

Excellent introduction to Italy

It would have been 5 stars but as none Americans we do not get the backpack in advance so we needed to buy our own adapters. Also, we have taken two CIE tours an in neither case did we get the info about our destination, so we did not know we needed to bring a wash cloth for Europe, nor even how to tip the CIE guides Fortunately another part of our group let us see their book. The tour from start toi finish is 5 stars all the way.

First off in my opinion CIE is the very best. Our Tour Guide Graham Bruce is top notch and very knowledgeable on all things Scotland. Graham also is very personable and funny. This was my third time of having the privilege oh Graham being our Guide. Our Driver Rob was just as knowledgeable, personable. and a perfect complement to Graham. Our tour group was great. I would recommend the Isles and Glens tour to everyone. One complaint was at the Apex Grassmarket Hotel, my wife and I were left off the list for a room at the Hotel. Everyone else in the group had a room. The man at the reception desk was very rude and unprofessional he waved my wife off, and tended to other guests. Graham tried to help and he ignored him too. Needless to say everyone else was in their room and getting ready for the Scottish Banquet. Some Photos

Hope You Get Brendan

Best tour guide Ever!!!!!!!! Made extra stops, kept us on schedule and was considerate and kind. If I take another CIE trip, I would hope to have Brendan as my my driver.

Very nice tour and a great time!

Tour guide and driver were very good. Hotels were very nice and food was good. (Our flight was diverted from Shannon to Dublin and we had to find transportation to meet tour which was annoying because it was a 3 hour bus ride to get back to Shannon )

A great decision!

CIE was fantastic! We love that everything was handled for us, and it was very easy to just relax and enjoy once we got there. Our driver was informative and fun, all the tour guides were excellent, and the accommodations were more than we expected. Highly recommend CIE to anyone considering a group tour!

Great for first time visitors to Ireland!

Very attentive, made alternate arrangements quickly.

Awesome Experience

I would highly recommend CIE tours! We had a wonderful , experienced, knowledgeable tour director Mary as well as the Best most enjoyable bus driver
Great trip

Best birthday ever

The tour covered a lot of Ireland. My tour guide, Tony, was very knowledgeable and made the tour fun

Backpack with accessories was appreciated. Bus was clean and comfortable. Tour guide was knowledgeable.

A wonderful and organized trip! We enjoyed every moment of the tour.

Our driver Andy and guide Lisa were entertaining, informative and provided helpful information. Example the airline lost my baggage. Lisa directed me to places to shop for necessities. Andy made sure that we had our things stored safely when we were living out of a shopping bag.

Mark and Pat had a terrific time!

Loved every minute. We saw more than we could imagine , and our tour guides were well chosen. Both Diana and Lorenzo were superb.

Irish Adventure

Our Irish Adventure trip last month was our first tour. We could not have been happier! Everything went without a glitch from our arrival at the ariport to our hotel transfer, and daily tour trips. The information we received from CIE ahead of time was very helpful and the backpacks and chargers were a lovely gift. It was a very busy and active tour which we did know ahead of time. A very good tour was made even more exceptional by our tour guide, Brian Hanrahan. He was knowledgeable about the history and culture of Ireland and totally engaging, charming, entertaining and fun.
He kept us informed and entertained the entire trip and arranged excellent tours with city guides. He recommended a wonderful live performance, Gallic Roots which we attended and loved and our last farewell dinner was made even more memorable when Brian sang with the band! We are already looking into another CIE tour but don't know if we will be lucky enough to have a guide as exceptional as Brian!

A great tour with the best tour guide.

We loved the tour. We were able to visit the Blarney Castle, The Ring of Kerry with both the Skellig Experience and the sheep herding Demonstration. The Cliffs of Moher are a sight to behold while the dinner at Bunratty Castle was so enjoyable.

the best part of the tour was our guide Patrick. Not only was he knowledgeable, but he treated us like family. Parting ways with him was bittersweet. There was good craic to be had on this trip.

I would severely recommend this trip and would take another CIE tours trip. And If Patrick is leading the tour, I'm certainly game.