4.6/5

Beautiful UK

Great Itinerary, Great stays & great “included” entertainment!

A great experience.

Guide, service, hotels, bus, sites visited were all great. Dinner menus and food was very bad.

CIE Tours did an outstanding job showing us the sites of Scotland and Ireland. We had different tour directors and bus drivers in each country. All were great and extremely helpful!

Trip of a LIFETIME!!!

She was amazing. Very helpful a wonderful experience.
She was the one who recimmended CIE

Nearly Perfect

Nearly perfect. We stayed in two substandard hotels (out of a total of four). It was not bad enough to take off a star. Our guide was FABULOUS!

Great Tour

All went well. I do not like to do Review online.

Excellent. All the travel documents arrived on time and well organized, however documents for an additional person added closer to the travel date was missing a voucher for hop on off in London.

Wonderful tour

My AAA agent did all the booking for us. She did a wonderful job.

It was a great “taste” of Scotland and makes us want to see more!

Overall, it was a great tour. Our tour guide (for the majority of the tour) was very knowledgeable about Scotland, and provided interesting side notes frequently. Our driver was extremely competent and helpful as well.
I think one thing that could be improved is having each tour member introduce themselves at the initial “meet and greet”. We met others on our own, but it would have been nice to have some background to start.

Would definitely book another tour with CIE. Well organized

Very enjoyable tour

Great tour, highly recommend!

We had a fantastic trip! Our tour guide was extremely friendly and knowledgeable, and we thought the itinerary covered all the main sights to see for our first trip to Ireland. We also appreciated that CIE knows ins and outs of some of the sites, such as the best time to visit them to avoid crowds, good places to eat lunch, etc. You also don't have to worry about booking tickets for attractions, but there was often some free time in the evenings for additional exploring if desired. It was fun to get to know others on the bus, and it never felt like we were driving for too much of the day. Also, it was SO nice to have a driver on some of the windy and narrow roads that we would have been nervous to trek ourselves. We would absolutely recommend CIE to anyone looking to tour Ireland, particularly for the first time. It was clear throughout our travels that CIE has a good reputation and is well respected.

Great itinerary! Relaxed travel between points of interest. Coach driver and tour guides were exceptional!

Very professional staff who add a special personal touch in most cases. Both Becky and Marlene were informative and caring. Excellent people skills for both. Our one driver was only with us from Belfast to Dublin. He seemed totally unprepared for this route that took too long. Would have been a better choice to keep our Scotland driver, Bret.

Booking was a nightmare but trip was amazing. Great driver and Guide

An exemplary informative tour of Scotland

David our tour guide was a professional at every instance. He was knowledgeable of our travel locations as well as the history of Scotland. He was well organized, prepared for each day and maintained his helpful attitude throughout our tour. We very much appreciated that he was easy to understand and thoughtful of the group's desires.

Just as advertised, interesting and fun!

The tour was just as it was advertised. we enjoyed each day and evening with our new friends on the tour. Our tour guide Allen, in Scotland was informative and a really nice man, in kilts and coat and tie. We lost him when we went across to Belfast, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Our bus driver Sean was very good and knew so much about Ireland. Our entire tour was fine except it wasn't long enough to include many areas we did not get to see. We loved the people and the beautiful rural areas of both Scotland and Ireland. So much farmland, with sheep and cattle and of course the endless fields of grain and fresh produce was fantastic. We loved it.

Amazing times.

All of our guides were very knowledgeable and helpful. We had loads of fun. Our guide in Ireland(Colm Clarke) was an absolute HOOT!!. Just loved him.

Enjoyable tour with great guide

The tour was great. Guides were knowledgeable and informative. Would travel again with CIE. Only aspect of tour that I found lacking was the pub in York in a word terrible

Great experience

Great service and value for the money! Excellent tour guides and drivers. Comfortable coaches.

All was great but the Columba hotel

Plan to take my adult children on a shorter tour. It was great