2-Tägige Bahntour Cliffs of Moher, Connemara und Galway Bay von Dublin aus

Absolutely wonderful and the guides were fabulous!

Wonderful tour with great planned out stops. The guides were fabulous too ! Seamus , our driver /guide was wonderful !!

We had the best time!! Our guides were so lovely and very knowledgeable. They gave us lots of good recommendations and tips for the rest of our trip to Ireland too. I always felt safe and comfortable and we had a good amount of time at each of the stops. I am so pleased with our tour, I only wish we had done a longer one!!!

The Cliffs were incredible and Galway is a great town!! Hotel accommodations were nice I would recommend using Viator.

The Irish Rail tour guides & local guides provided an authentic experience about Irish history & the lives of people through the centuries in Galway & County Clare The Conamurra trip was replaced with a ferry tour with very little fuss to one of the three Aran Islands. John O’ Connell provided an Irish commentary of life lived on the islands

Day 1 was not a good experience. A lot of driving on a bus with only one good stop. “Guide” was not well informed or did not share info. Day 2 was great with a great guide but was also on a bus. Not sure why it is called a rail tour. The only rail part was from Dublin to limerick and from Galway to Dublin. It cut off some bus time but did not contribute anything to the tour.

This is a review of the 2-Day Bunratty Castle, medieval banquet, Galway, Cliffs of Mohen and Burren tour from Dublin. First let me say my review has nothing to do with the tour guides, who were all excellent. But the wrong Bunratty hotel was shown on my voucher and this led to a disaster that could have easily been avoided. I started the tour in Dublin and was the only customer for it on this particular day. I met a guide at the Dublin station who told me I would be traveling alone to Galway where I would meet another guide who would explain to me where and when to find the bus to Bunratty, on which I would also travel alone, without a guide, and without any other passengers. I took three guided Railtours Ireland tours during my stay in Ireland, and if there ever was a time I NEEDED a guide to escort me, it was on the segment from Galway to my Bunratty hotel. But alas, they sent me off alone, and I was the only passenger on a very large tour bus! Wait, it gets creepier. Upon entering the Bunratty area, the bus driver asked me the name of the hotel I was staying at. I told him Bunratty Castle Hotel because that is what was printed on my travel voucher. So he drops me off at the hotel and leaves immediately. I get to the entrance and I see a sign that says "Bunratty Castle Hotel has been closed for the last two years." My brain could not even comprehend that this could be true, so I walked through the entrance and saw an abandoned front desk and several people milling about, none of whom spoke English. I truly thought I was in a nightmare, or a Stephen King novel. The bus driver was long gone, the Railtours Ireland office was closed, I was alone, it was raining hard, it was dark and I had no idea if this little village even had another hotel or if I would be able to get transportation back to Dublin. I did manage to find one person who spoke a little English, and he found an English speaking employee who was willing to help me resolve the mix up. After she did some research and made some phone calls, it was determined that I was supposed to be staying at the Bunratty MANOR hotel. And it turns out, to Ireland's credit, the Bunratty Castle Hotel, along with other Irish hotels, have been closed because they've been hosting Ukrainian refugees - but the problem is Railtours Ireland adamantly refuses to make a simple edit in their system so the correct hotel shows on the voucher!!! So I had to walk in the rain with luggage a half mile and hope to find my way to the Bunratty Manor Hotel. I found it, checked in, and because of the delay, I had to rush to make it to the medieval banquet at the castle. The very nice front desk agent was gracious enough to give me a ride to the banquet, a ride which, by the way, was not arranged by Railtours Ireland. I communicated the next day by phone and several emails to the Railtours Ireland office manager. The emails are also seen by the CEO, I'm told. Of course they were very apologetic, but the reason I'm rating this tour one star is because of their stubborn refusal, which they admit, to make a simple update to their system so the travel voucher indicates Bunratty Manor Hotel instead of Bunratty Castle Hotel - a simple edit that would prevent future customers from going through what I went through. The office manager indicated they were not changing the name of the hotel on the vouchers because the closure of the Bunratty Castle Hotel is temporary and they do not want to change it and then change it back again. I was absolutely stunned (and mystified) to hear this feeble explanation. I asked the CEO if I am understanding the situation correctly, because I found it so hard to believe, but he did not reply. It still boggles my mind that Railtours Ireland has such low regard for their customers, as well as the staff of Bunratty Castle Hotel, that they would rather cause this kind of disruption instead of making a simple edit in their system.

Cliffs of Moher and Kylemore Abbey were sensational. Good travel guides and excellent lodging. Well organized.

Got to see so many highlights on this trip! It makes for a long 2 days, but at least you can rest on the bus/train. We did find the company to be somewhat disorganized, and they passed us off to different tour companies and guides throughout. This was due to short-staffing that hasn’t gotten back up to normal levels from COVID. The guides were very knowledgeable and friendly.

The tour consists of two distinct parts, as it is not really done with Railtours Ireland both days. The first day, you travel by train to Bunratty, in our case accompanied by Bob. From the very beginning, she was like a nanny who made sure we didn’t have any worries: she booked seats on the train, accompanied us at every turn, reporting on history, events and any other data of interest. In Bunratty, apart from a couple of photo-stops, you visit the Castle/Park in time to see everything above without wasting too much time. The right one, which has to be seen a lot, everything has to be said. Lunchtime in a typical pub and a visit to the Cliffs, all by bus, also ensures that you can see everything and does not allow anyone to get lost or mistaken. Makes you feel safe. The bus drops you off in Galway, where you’ll have time to explore the city on your own, dine and lie at the wonderful Galmont hotel. The second part of the trip was with Lally Tours. Punctual like clockwork we were picked up from the hotel and taken along a relaxing route through Connemara National Park, with numerous stops for photos. All explained by the driver, Martin. He was also responsible for making us feel comfortable, entertain and have fun. The time to visit Kylemore Abbey is more than enough, with time even to eat or visit the souvernirs shop. When we returned, Railtours staff again picked us up in Galway and made sure we arrived by train back to Dublin without incident.