4.6/5

The agenda was clearly defined and prior to the trip was reiterated along with backpack gift

CIE tour, bus, driver, and guide was great. Pick up at airport was ok, driver had patience with the horrendous traffic. Trip back to airport was great. Our driver was super nice. Hotel rm was old but clean. Hotel asked for a $50 refundable deposit. Location of hotel was great.

It far surpassed our expectations. The whole tour and Ian were GREAT!

Everything about the tour was SUPER! The information shared by our guide was great. The size of the group (22) was ideal. We could not have been more pleased with the entire experience. I would highly recommend CIE to anyone looking for a tour experience.

We booked through our travel agent and had no issues.

Best tour ever! Would go though another travel agency

The actual tour in Ireland was amazing, but our travel agent was hard to get ahold of and details we not correct or consistant.

A wonderful taste of Ireland and Scotland!

We had a wonderful trip. Sam our tour guide/ driver was wonderful. The itinerary covered a lot of great places.

Wonderful time in Mystical Ireland!

Had a great time! The Tour Director John was great and so was Salah the Driver! John new all about Ireland and Sarah diving was unbelievable in driving the narrow winding roads of Ireland. Kissed the Blarney Stone! What more can I say!

Experience Scotland

We would absolutely use them again! We learned so much from our guide Ian Walker.
We not only saw Scotland but we learned about the history, so many fun facts too. We experienced Scotland. We feel like we know Scotland now!

Fantastic

They did everything well. I would definitely recommend them and we will definitely travel with CIE again.

Tour Guide, Sean was excellent. Every stop was well planned. I would recommend this to anyone. I would travel again with CIE.

Loved our tour!!

We really enjoyed our trip to Ireland with CIE. Brendan , our tour guide was awesome! I definitely recommend CIE, and hope to tour with them again!!

Our tour directors were amazing. This was our first visit to Europe and CIE helped us feel at home. The itinerary was great.

The itinerary was not what I expected. There was so much "free time" that I felt could have included day trips or other adventures. The tour director saved this trip for me. He filled the empty spaces with quality and fun things to do.

I would recommend them.

Wonderful guides

CIE made my trip to Ireland Great

The booking service was great. Trina was very helpful answering my questions and with the following up with me up until my trip.

Not enough time in Galway ! Complete disappointment.

Left Galway after 2 hours only to stop at a rest stop an hour later and spent 60 minutes there 🤯

Delightful Scottish/Irish Dream Tour!

We had a delightful 14 day, 13 night trip on the Scottish/Irish Dream Tour. Most of the hotels were topnotch and had great service; however, we found the Ballachulish Hotel to be lacking. The floors squeaked so badly that anytime someone walked across the floor above, it could be heard. We had dinner at this hotel as part of the package. The service was horribly slow. It took two hours for our group to get through 3 courses and ther e was no coffee or tea served with our dessert. It has a lovely location, which somewhat made up for the lack of service.

We loved our tour guide, Brian, on the Scotland portion of the tour and we were disappointed that he was not allowed to continue with us on to Ireland. He was very seasoned and knew just the right amount of history and humor to add to make it simply deightful. Our second tour guide and bus driver, Cathal Clarke, was very nice but being a history major in college, had a tendency to provide way too much information.

The day we traveled from Scotland to Ireland, we at tharrived e Stena Lline ship ferry about 10:15 a.m. I'm not sure if we missed the ferry that was supposed to take us at 10:30 or not, but we had to wait nearly two hours on the coach before we proceeded onto the ship. Even though we were one of the first coaches to arrive at the port, we were one of the last to board the ship. By the time we got upstairs to buy some lunch, the ship restaurant was packed, with long line for food. We waited nearlly an hour in line to buy some hot lunch. Given our late departure from the Scottish port, we did not arrive at the Belfast Titanic Museum until nearlly 4:00 p.m. giving us only an hour and 15 minutes total to explore this wonderful museum. I'm not sure what went wrong that day but we spent way too much time traveling and very little time was left for the museum. Perhaps an overnight in Belfast would have been a better option.

We loved our evening at The Merry Ploughboy restaurant and the Bunratty Castle Medieval dinner. Both were topnotch and fun with the group.

We didn't realize until late in the first week that we were losing 19 of our 39 tour group members who only purchased the Scotland portion of the trip. We had 19 new folks join our bus and learned that some were on a 4-day Tastle of Ireland, some were on a 5-day and some were on a 6-day. Losing the folks we made friends with on the first half was very disappointing. And the group photo taken was with the second half of the group that joined us, taken at Moriarty's in the Gap of Dunloe. We would have preferred the photo be taken with the first group of those traveling with us in Scotland.

Overall, we were very pleased with the stops we made, the sights were visited, and the entertainment and meals provided. We chose CIE as they were reputed to be leaders in tours of Scotland and Ireland; however, we would probably not choose another
tour of other locations with this company.

Easy to deal with and quick responses.

Irish Gold struck gold

I want to let you know how much fun we had on the Irish Gold tour. Our tour guide Marian Kelley was awesome, she made us all feel welcomed from the moment we met her. Her passion for Ireland comes through, we enjoyed her stories, history and the extra details she put into the tour (We did the Gaelic Roots live show which was awesome). My only negative comment would be that I wish the larger more crowded parts (Galway and Dublin) could have been done on a week days instead of the weekend when it it so crowded.

But we had an awesome time.