Tours in Ireland
For a full list of our tours in Ireland with dates and prices, please scroll down.
For years, it has been our dream to offer tours in Ireland - and we are thrilled to see that dream become reality. In recent years, the Peter Sommer Travels approach to travel, accommodation, gastronomy and - last but not least - narrative has made our Mediterranean tours a unique and premium experience. The decision to apply the same approach to the United Kingdom has made it a logical step to also include its smaller island neighbour in our agenda. Heinrich, our resident expert in Greece, has spent more than a decade of his life in Ireland and harbours not just a fascination, but a deep and personal affection for the country, its people and its culture. Paired with his profound knowledge of Irish archaeology, that affection has become the foundation for our Irish itineraries.
The same ideas that have established our acclaimed Exploring Tours as some of the best-prepared and most carefully crafted cultural travel offerings in regions of Greece and Italy are the background for our Irish tours:. They include: painstaking attention to detail based on intimate knowledge of a region, a holistic view of land and culture, bold "outside the box" thinking and a passionate ambition to present our guests with the best, the most interesting, the most real experience of an area and its history. Based on these principles, our tours in Ireland will be of equal interest to the first-time visitor and to the seasoned connoisseur of the "Emerald Isle".
If you are interested in sharing our experience and knowledge of the country, but the dates of our tours do not match with your travel plans, please contact our office. As with all of our tours, we are happy to customise and adapt our itineraries to create bespoke tailor-made trips to suit your own schedule. We hope to welcome you soon on one of our unique tours. Why not join us in discovering the beauties of Ireland, from the urban vistas of Dublin via the rich heritage of the country's Eastern province, Leinster, to the wild and rugged Atlantic Shores of Connaught?
Average rating 5 out of 5 from 500 reviews for Tours in Ireland, according to AITO reviews.
Featured Tours
Testimonials
We have enjoyed four previous tours with PST and we had been searching for a high quality, small group tour of Ireland. Thus, when PST offered the Exploring Ireland tour, we booked without hesitation. The main tour guide was Heinrich Hall with whom we had toured twice before and whom we admired for all the reasons you get to "love" a fine tour guide. As usual with PST the itinerary was varied and interesting. The food was always excellent and abundant. The accommodation were all very fine and, more importantly, uniquely charming - highlights of the trip in and of themselves. Our local guide was Dr. Siobhan Hargis and she proved to be as knowledgeable and as caring and considerate as Heinrich. One could not possibly ask for two more wonderful tour guides. People who choose PST archaeology-focused tours may be seen as at least a somewhat self-selected group and, thus, it is small wonder that our group was a "success" from the start - we met wonderful people, made new friends, and had fun exploring Ireland with them. All or most of us were "alumni" of one or more previous PST tours and that says a lot about the quality of the tours.
Russell Chapman, LA, USA Exploring Ireland: The Heart of The Emerald Isle
Our first visit to Ireland. We chose Peter Sommer Travels as our tour operator given previous experiences with them. The tour itinerary had been thoroughly researched prior to commencement, the hotels extremely comfortable, mostly country houses and the restaurants, whether in the hotels or stand alone, offering a range of fares, from haute cuisine to country kitchen, all worthy of a return visit and high recommendation. The coach was immaculate and superbly comfortable. The two guides Siobhan and Heinrich , both academics, are superbly versed in their subjects and able to impart their knowledge to their audience in a manner which maintained interest and was suitably peppered with humour. They also hosted the group in an exemplary manner at the dinner table and structured the daily itineraries to afford the guests personal space and comfort.
William Ford, Gauteng, South Africa Exploring Ireland: The Heart of The Emerald Isle
