4.6/5

Wonderful tour of Scotland & Ireland. Rich with history, local lore , magnificent countryside , beautiful cities & friendly people!

Taste of Britain - Cathy LeBlanc

We enjoyed our vacation with CIE Travel. Accommodations were beautiful. We were a bit disappointed with our trip to Liverpool, nothing was provided about the Beetles as mentioned in the itinerary. We arrived in the evening and left early in the morning.
no time for a tour. We were left on our own more than we expected. We realize this is a city tour but again, this is why we chose a tour company vs going on our own. It would have been nice to have an "afternoon tea" included vs a whiskey tour.

CIE Tours were a pleasure to work with. The initial phone contacts were professional, efficient and friendly. The service provided was amazing. Handling luggage through out the trip was great. The backpacks provided were helpful. I would highly recommend them.

Jeremiah, our driver was awesome, do knowledgeable,accommodating, awesome

Outstanding and amazing trip. Jeremiah was the best!!!!

Best Vacation Ever!

It was amazing! More than what we could ever imagine! The BEST tour director Marlene! So informative and great sense of humor!

Amazing trip.

Tour was great . Hotels were very nice. Tour guides were wonderful . One thing would have been nice is to have an iternary with estimated times .

Really Enjoyed this Fast Paced Trip

Enjoyed the locations, our driver Marie, and our first tour guide in Scotland.

Do wish we could have stayed overnight in Edinburgh and Galway but hard to fit everything in.

Truly a dream vacation!

From start to finish, everything was wonderful! Very organized. Met wonderful people. Hotels and food were 5 star!

Beautiful Tour!

I enjoyed our trip - Nail was a fantastic tour guide and driver. I was thrilled to see so much of Southern Ireland!

Taste of Ireland Tour

First, it was truly a "Taste" of Ireland as we had many different experiences that we probably could not have done on our own. We toured Dublin city and the Dublin Castle and then had a great meal and show at the Merry Ploughboy Pub.
Additional stops throughout the week included the Blarney Castle, Ring of Kerry, the Skellig Experience, sheepdog demo, Cliffs of Moher and Galway.
Throughout the tour, our director / driver, Niall, was very informative and funny! And he ensured that we all kept the schedule.

everything about the tour was excellent. The tour guide was very informative. The bus driver was excellent. The hotels and food were also excellent. The attractions we visited were awesome.

Fun and interesting trip

Driver and host are made the trip enjoyable

Good Beginner Tour

TD& driver were great. Included dinner at the hotel in Bath was wonderful. Overall a great starter tour for someone who hadn't been to the UK before. I brought my daughter on her 2nd trip & this fit her holiday timeline. I usually just come on my own. TD had her own hidden treasure she shared with us on one of our rest stops that was great! All the hotels were fine. Liverpool was great a great location. The only one that I have anything negative to say about is the one in Edinburgh. Distant location, rooms were cold & many had heaters or other items that didn't function. Also the food left much to be desired, both breakfast & dinner as you basically had to eat there because it was so far from anything else. Otherwise very nice.

Great short tour to see more of Scotland

I did the Taste of Scotland tour. It was definitely fast paced and a lot of bus riding, but it was worth it to see the highlands area in a short period of time. I'm glad they gave us free time to explore in St. Andrew and Edinburgh. We really enjoyed our distillery tour as well. Our tour guide that was with us for 4 days was excellent and our tour guide/driver was great and amazed us all driving through busy Edinburgh.

The hotels we stayed at all had nice rooms and bars and the food provided was excellent.

A few hiccups along the way during this enjoyable tour.

The tour director, Dianna was excellent. we enjoyed all the activities except going to leather and jewelry stores unlike the glass blowing in Murano, it was just a sales pitch in Florence. We did have a problem with luggage transfer in Rome, the porters put my wife's luggage in an empty room. It was missing for over three hours without Dianna's involvement the hotel was not taking seriously enough for our liking. we did really enjoy the tour. it was our fourth CIE tour.

Excellent guides on our Scotland tour. Our driver Marie Butler was fabulous

Great guides. Hotel choices ok. Scottish culture dinner very disappointing. Tell travelers not to expect hair dryers in Scotland!

My family and I loved the trip.!

The entire trip was awesome! Our driver Niaal was great along with all others that were associated with the tour! We loved everything!

Great tour of the Emerald Isle

The route around Ireland was exactly what we wanted to see.
The tour director / coach driver was so very knowledgeable and with a good sense of humour.
Hotel staff were very welcoming & helpful
Food was delicious
Tours at each stop have us ample time to learn the history and take photos
Others touring with us were all good company

Everything was great!!! Very well planned out. Our guide Hamish and driver Lee were wonderful

GREAT GUIDE, Lots of Laughter and everything you could ask to see in Italy

Our Guide was FABULOUS.
I had convinced someone else to go on this CIE trip. When so many people were delayed because of air plane issues (1 couple were routed thru POLAND) and our 1st night gathering had to be delayed for an hour or so, my friend seemed ready to be negative- UNTIL our guide Diana had us all together at the restaurant with a glass of wine. SHE had everyone laughing and telling stories for about 2 hours. She was funny, professional, thoughtful and an excellent logistic manager. We had a couple of very ambulatory limited people on the tour and she was able to make special arrangements for them and keep the group going. Venice was our first gathering and to keep a large group of 44 people together among the warren of allies and bridges in Venice is NO SMALL FEAT = it was done smoothly. The gondola ride was fun as the boat guys are having a ball talking back and forth and it is such a great way to see Venice. The vaporetto was something we also did the day we arrived early and on our way to Maurano. During the bus transports we stopped at places I would LOVE to spend more time in = Bologna and ESPECIALLY Orvieto. What a great place.