Great trip for someone traveling solo and not wanting to do all the driving myself. Well organized. Good traveling and hotel accomodations. You can choose to take these as single day-trips from Dublin or combine them in a multi-day trip which I would recommend as it gives you a chance to spend more time in the smaller towns outside the crowds of Dublin.

Met a good friend of mine in Ireland just last week, she is currently backpacking through Scotland and England and needed a break. I told her not to worry about a thing, I’d book everything. I found a site in the US called Viator and started to read their reviews of trips in Ireland and decided to pre-book Railtour’s Grand Atlantic Tour and in addition made a last minute decision to book their trip to Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway. I couldn’t be happier with my trip. Dave was our tour guide the first day and once we departed the train, John became our bus driver. Dave was extremely knowledgeable about all our stops and was more than willing to take photos for us. Michael ended the tour on the first night getting us on the proper train into Killarney. Catherine picked us up at the train station and brought us to our accommodations for the evening. The next morning we boarded a bus for the Ring of Kerry tour. Dennis was the bus driver, he too was very knowledgeable. The third day of our tour had us meeting up with Dave again to do the Cliffs of Moher. Tom was our bus driver on this tour. Our fourth day was suppose to be to Connemara, but the company needed to cancel it due to construction, etc. in that area. In turn we were offered the Aran Island tour at no extra cost. The fifth day of our tour we met up with Branden at Connolly station and boarded the train to Belfast. Allen met us at the pickup sight with his bus and off we went. If you’re going to Ireland you’d be foolish not to take a Railtour tour. The company and their employees, especially those mentioned, will make your trip a memorable one. Thanks to all who assist making our trip a fantastic and memorable experience.

I enjoyed the tour very much. the tour guides were all excellent and very helpful. beautiful things to see everywhere. I skipped the last day but had good company on my way back to Dublin. the only complaint that I had was not much help carrying/pulling suitcase. it was large and heavy and for almost $800 I thought there would be more help. one is pretty much on one's own during the whole tour, with lots of getting on/off trains and buses. lovely people on the tour and I did enjoy it very much.

The areas we visited were gorgeous and the coaches were quite comfortable. We *loved* our coach driver/guide for the Connemara tour - he really added a lot of interesting information and experiences! Galway and Connemara were my favorite parts of the trip. Ring of Kerry was beautiful but rainy, and the Cliffs of Moher were of course awesome but were crowded. We felt that the first 3 days were lacking in some important details, such as when to get off the coach for a specific accommodation, or where exactly to meet up at the end of a tour. In the case of where to meet up with the rest of the group: the tour guide should probably stand in a single, obvious location as a beacon, since each member doesn't necessarily recognize the other members of the group in a busy setting, but our guide was not always good about staying in obvious locations. The B and B we stayed in at KIllarney was nice but it was cold in our room and the lady who runs the place was obviously annoyed that we were asking for the heat to be turned up every evening. I wouldn't want to stay there again, simply for that reason - you don't want to return from a rainy tour to a cold room where you have to wear your coat indoors. We also wished we had more time at the stops -- it seemed like we had barely enough time to see each stop and maybe go through the gift shop but time was tight and we were often afraid of being left behind.