What an INCREDIBLE experience for my group. We had a wonderful time and left a piece of us back in Ireland as we all were grateful for having visited.
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This trip had a good balance of "edutainment" with free time for travelers to do things on their own time. The dinners were great, with numerous options at each meal, including dessert! The individual guides, or other hosts, were informative and were clearly very excited about their respective fields of study, so it was a treat to listen to their stories!
Nice hotels, good tour guide. Downsides were lack of food options, my daughter missed multiple meals. The time on the bus was more than time at the actual sites. Why is a hotel 3 hours away from days only point of interest? No one wants to spend 6 hours on a bus. I would gladly pay a bit more for a closer hotel.
A lifelong memory!
The Ireland Tour was Fantastic all coordination and planning for the tour was on point. The environment was very safe, and friendly. The EF Tour Director ASH was Amazing. We are looking forward to our next adventure with EF tours.
Loved the tour guide and local guides. Felt rushed changing hotels every night and sometimes trying to fit too much into one day.
I've always wanted to see Ireland and now I have. I never believe it could be as green as in pictures, but it was. The highlights for me were the nature (Cliffs of Moher, sheepdog demonstration, and Giant's Causeway among others) as well as our tours in Derry and Belfast from people who talked knowledgeably and from personal experience about the Troubles. Our tour guide Elaine and our driver Philip were wonderful and we enjoyed talking with both of them and hearing about Ireland from them. I hope to go back and see the southern part of Ireland soon!
It was so interesting and I seen so much of Ireland. I really enjoyed myself.
Life-changing, showed me places I would’ve never thought to visit. I will definitely be booking another trip with EF in the future!
The Ireland in Depth tour is magical. Our group of students and adults experienced the beauty and history of the island and her people, both in the countryside and the capital cities of Dublin and Belfast. As someone who has been on a previous EF tour--and dreamed of visiting Ireland for years--I was not disappointed.
A glorious exploration of the whole of Ireland.
Truly remarkable trip. I now know where I want to retire!
Invaluable experience! I chose this for my son over an Ivy College Summer Course and would do it again in a heartbeat! The country of Ireland was his classroom!
It was an incredible experience that he would do again!! So thankful for this trip, the ease of it, the safety of it...it was overall an excellent, life-changing experience for my son! Very thankful!
Ireland was beautiful but the group did not receive the support they needed when there was a disruption in travel. 41 students and additionally their teachers were abandoned upon arrival in Ireland with a no show of the buses. EF did not make any arrangements to modify the transport times when the airline prematurely boarded and left with 45 passengers missing. The group's teacher had to call every parent in the United States to ask for permission for taxi transport. That same teacher had to find over 10 taxis to transport the group an hour and half to another bus terminal for continued transport to the hotel. The group arrived at 12:30 am. Missed the first full day of the tour. EF left the teachers to figure out how to get 41 students from the airport to the next stop of the tour. And we never heard anything from EF with an explaination, reimbursements or an apology. The tour was $6,000. I expected more.
Very poor planning on EF Tours part. My son was on a connecting flight to London, which was delayed 45 mins out of Boston. The plane was then delayed for 30 mins on the tarmac at Heathrow. As a result, my son and the 39 other students in the group missed the connecting flight to Dublin. We understand that EF Tours bear no responsibility on the airline delays, however, we think it is very poor planning and quite frankly negligent, on EF Tours part to plan a connecting flight with only a 90 minute layover at a foreign airport. My son and his group were stuck in Heathrow airport for many hours for a connecting flight to Belfast, where they arrived late in the afternoon. At that point they where carpooled - yes carpooled, not bused, from Belfast to Dublin, where they arrived late in the evening. It was a tolling, grueling and tiresome day for the group. They missed an entire day in Dublin and took them days to recover physically. My wife and I were disappointed 2 weeks prior when we realized that his flight to Dublin was not a direct flight considering the investment we have made to EF Tours. Our disappointment was compounded by EF Tours lack of good planning. We should be compensated for the lost of the day by EF Tours. At this point we will not do business with EF Tours or promote them in anyway moving forward.
Poor flight planning led to a loss of a day and 30 hours of travel time. Some kids had a direct flight, but most did not. We all paid the same price.
The places we saw in Ireland were full of anciient and modern readitions and beauty. Our studentsts absorbed so much of the information. They also learnd hearing the hisoty and many sights as we drove from place to place. The only thing I would change is maybe being closer to the sights we were gong to see and how long it was from otel to totel. The trip was a once in a lifetime exeperience through Ireland.
Traveler enjoyed the experience. Maybe the only factor was that places visited could have had more time allowed to visit. There should always be a local/folk ingredient anywhere travelers go, so the contrast with own culture is noticeable. It wasn't a five star experience, but the bright side is that traveler said he would visit Ireland again.
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