Ireland Tour --
 

Any opinions about this canned tour to Ireland?
Stay 1 Week in Dublin & Eastern Ireland and 1 Week in Tralee & Western Ireland with Breakfast & Dinner Daily ~ Explore all Corners of Ireland with Leisurely Day Tours ~ Dublin ~ Medieval Kilkenny ~ Scenic Wicklow Mountains, UNESCO World Heritage Site ~ Waterford ~ Blarney Castle ~ Scenic Lakes of Killarney ~ Tralee & Country Kerry ~ World Famous Ring of Kerry ~ World Famous Dingle Peninsula Excursion ~ Limerick ~ Village of Bunratty

it is impossible to know much about a tour w/o reading the exact description. For instance terms like "see such-and-such" means you see it from the window of the coach while driving by. "visit such-and-such" - you actually get off the bus and go inside. Plus which sites/the number of sites in a day would tell us how much "coach time" there is.

So give us the link to the tour and we can give you better advice.

Here is the link ...
http://www.legendaryjourneys.com/PDF...land%202007.pd

Your link doesn't work, but I had a quick dig into the Legendary Journeys site and found the package.

The itinerary is okay -- pretty standard stuff. The description is somewhat sloppy -- for example, I don't believe that you will hit Blarney Castle on a day trip from Dublin! I suspect that the package includes day trips on only about half the days, and that you will have to manage for yourself for a number of days. I don't know the hotels, but the Dublin base is Donabate which is well outside the city and not a great location (although it is on the coast). The Kerry base is Tralee, a busy town that I don't like very much -- it's a bit rough.

The headline price is $1799. If you get something like that to include air travel, it's very cheap, and you cannot expect grade A treatment at that sort of price.

I'd imagine that Donabate as a base for the Kerry, Limerick and Bunratty legs of the tour is a typo and they meant to say Tralee. Donabate is an isolated little village outside Dublin and not a suitable base for a tour. Although it does have nice beaches and a couple of goodish golf courses, it would be better if your group was based in a city-centre hotel so that you could perhaps go exploring on your own in the evenings.

As for Tralee - this is a totally biased opinion but I don't like Tralee at all. Its reputation is that of a rough town where, for its size, there seems to be a lot of violence, especially after the pubs close.

I think you'd be better off spending a bit extra and staying in better locations.