4.6/5

Excellent way to see Ireland

Excellent way to see the highlights of Ireland in a short period of time. Our coach bus tour driver/guide was very informative and knowledgeable of all sites and area travel through. Accommodations were excellent. Meals and service were very good. As mentioned before, we would recommend this tour if you don’t have or want to spend a lot of time away from home. We will use CIE again if we decide to return to Ireland, but would like to have more free time. This would only happen if we extend our trip by several more days. Either before a tour or after or plan a tour, with CIE, with a small group.

CIE did a wonderful job and came to me with a very high recommendation from my travel agent Jeff Lazo (Hawaii). Jeff is very well connected and has elegant tastes. During the pandemic quarantine, I had attended a virtual tour in Ireland that Jeff hosted.

We had a fairly small group of 25 who experienced the Scots-Ireland 15 day tour. The best thing about it was all the events we attended that were included in our package.

CIE made exceptional decisions for us related to travel stops, castles, walking tours, pubs events, and city/town locations. I enjoyed everything we did thoroughly and left to my own choices would not have chosen them out of my own ignorance. So I felt very blessed to have such quality adventures to open my mind and be thrilled by! Most everyone felt the same. No decisions to make, no additional costs, and top notch experiences. Our 15-day bus driver was Irish and truly up for the challenge (Joe). Our five-day tour guide in Scotland (Rury) was wonderful story teller, poetry reader, and singer who made our trip through Scotland truly romantic and memorable.

The opportunity to take photos was absolutely available and a wonderful gift for me as I had a blast taking great shots on my Pixel and editing as I went. Driving along the Irish Sea was breathtaking. The countrysides inland were gorgeous.

Plus we started in Edinborough and ended in Dublin. We saw a lot of gorgeous geography!

Before we ever left, CEI communicated with us regularly and provided back packs, luggage belts, rain slickers and name tags so we could comfortably and securely travel. I felt safe.

I would love to take another CEI trip again someday, and based on what our companions were saying, they agreed. Not all experiences are as wonderful as the one we had,.

Great tour

Wonderful 1st Time Experience in Iceland

Overall experience was wonderful. The service, hotel accommodation and food were all excellent. However, we felt rushed and wished we could spend a bit extra time in the stunning places so we can soak in the beauty of each magical place.

The tour was fantastic and the guide (bus driver Franky) was phenomenal! He was very informative and fun!! I would definitely recommend CIE Tours!

A great time was had by all!

Friendly, personable, flexible if required due to weather. Knowledgeable of areas visited

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