4.6/5

The tour exceeded my expectations.

Gary, our tour guide, did a excellent job keeping us informed throughout our tour. I would and do recommend CIE!

Everything about our experience with CIE Tours was wonderful!!

Every representative I talked with was friendly, courteous and very helpful. My questions were always answered clearly and professionally. Travel information and materials arrived on time as promised. The only disappointment for my husband and I was not having seats together on our flights to Ireland. At the airport on the day of departure, we were able to get our seats reassigned and together, for our flights home.

Wonderful Experience

Very friendly and professional staff. Well designed tour agenda

Our tour guide Dennis was fantastic! He was knowledgeable, organized, and made the trip fun. We enjoyed all of the sites that we visited. The dinners that were included were great!

Everything was clear, well organized and fast. I have already highly recommended CIE Tours.

Great tour. Excellent itinerary. Suggest an extra day in Glasgow. Only include 1st night with dinner and leave dinner open on second night. Suggest Novotel Hotel be reviewed as the food was a disgrace, the service poor and the breakfast set up poorly supervised and executed. Guides and drivers were excellent

An excellent tour. Guide was terrific. Only down side was the accommodation in Dublin on the first night of the tour. City North Hotel. Poor location and poor service.
Maybe use the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire instead. I realise it is the wrong side of the city but would probably only add an extra 30-40 minute travel to Belfast. Possibly shorten some of the comfort (shopping) stops as these were really a time waster.

Booked through Ed Diamond with Avoya who took good care of us.

Always courteous and responsive. Very helpful on resolving requests and issues. For example, even enroute I had scheduling changes and the CIE agent (Nicole) made sure I was taken care of with follow-up confirmation.

CIE was very organized and our tour director Jim was very knowable.

They were very organized and our tour director was very knowledgeable and kept our trip very interesting. I will definitely book thru them again.

Great overview

2nd CIE trip loved them both. Well planned itineraries, fun and fascinating venues. Drivers and tour guides were skilled and knowledgeable. We see much more on organized tours then we would in a week on our own. Great overviews for a first visit to a country. Plenty of opportunities for shopping and pictures. Love those Irish breakfasts!

Everything was perfect. We had a wonderful time

Yes. We were extremely satisfied with the whole experience. The guide was magnificent

Used a local travel agency. (P&H Travel Bridgewater, MA) who were very good.

CIE hit the mark!

Our tour guide was personable, knowledgeable, and entertaining. I couldn't have asked for a better tour guide! The pace was great, we saw so much of Ireland. The accommodations were fabulous.

Poor - took awhile for responses, got several incorrect responses.

Loved our tour guide/driver Pat!

Not told we would be joining a group already on tour

We were not told we would be joining a 14 day tour. Disappointed

great trip

good service

Easy to book.

Easy to book, I called and they were more than happy to help us. I did not know that I could have /should have asked for different flight options/times for coming and going (which is my ignorance, no fault of CIE). I also did not know that I could have extended my trip (on my own) and CIE would have booked my flight coming or going even if it wasn't the first or last day of the CIE tour. So now I know for next time that it's way more flexible and I can basically customize my trip before and after the tour I choose! Meanwhile, between booking my trip and the departure date, customer service was always top notch whenever I called to ask a question.
Our tour guide David Turner was awesome! He was extremely knowledgable about each place we went and always had interesting and fun stories. Our driver Denis (do not recall his last name) was also very courteous and knowledgable. He made long stretches on the bus very comfortable. I hope to one day be on another tour with both David and Denis.

Everything was easy and all transactions were done smoothly.