Two days in Dublin. Then go west.
Which Cliffs of Moher coach leaves early enough to beat the tour buses. Whether the Guinness ticket earns its slot. Where the whiskey is actually made. Every tour you can book from Dublin, reviewed and ranked.
What Dublin books out first.
Every review →The coaches, tickets and pub nights more travellers take than anything else leaving this city — and what each one is really like on the day.
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Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, including Wild Atlantic Way and Galway
Dublin to Cliffs of Moher and Galway via Wild Atlantic Way, with fast-track Moher entry, Burren stops, WiFi, and guided city orientation.
From · $90.7
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Cliffs of Moher, Burren & Galway City Day Tour
from $89
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Guinness Storehouse Entry Ticket
from $34
4
Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, Burren, Wild Atlantic Way, Galway Tour
from $94.33
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Giants Causeway, Dark Hedges, Dunluce & Belfast Tour
from $112
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Dublin to Belfast Black Cab, Dunluce Castle and Giant’s Causeway
from $96.74
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Kilkenny, Wicklow Mountains & Glendalough Day Tour from Dublin
from $48.37
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Wicklow Mountains, Glendalough & Kilkenny Tour
from $45
Most of Dublin’s best days start on a coach at seven.
Nothing in Ireland is far from Dublin, but nothing is close either. The Cliffs are three hours west, the Causeway three hours north over a border, and Glendalough only an hour into the Wicklow hills. Pick the direction, then pick the coach that gives you time at the other end instead of time on the motorway.
Trinity, the Guinness gates, and the hills behind both.
Six things this city is known for. The stone, the stout, the whiskey, the west coast, the hills and the sea road out to Howth — and the best way to book each one.
The Liberties made whiskey before Dublin made anything else.
Two hundred years ago this quarter of the city ran on malt and copper. Bow Street still distils, Roe & Co reopened on the old Guinness power-station site, and the Storehouse pours its pint seven floors up with the Wicklow hills on the skyline. Do the tastings in the afternoon and the pubs after.
What a day out of Dublin actually costs.
Every tour on the site, sorted by price. A ticket, a walking tour and a pint of plain all sit in the first column.
Walking tours, ghost buses, distillery tastings and the entry tickets everyone queues for.
The full-day coaches: Cliffs of Moher, the Causeway, Wicklow and Kilkenny, lunch stop included.
Private drivers, multi-day rail trips down to Kerry, and the days you only do once.
Three things you can only do from Dublin.
Plenty of cities have a brewery tour and a scenic coast. A passage tomb older than the pyramids, forty thousand basalt columns and a seven-storey pint belong to this corner of the map.
The Boyne Valley
Newgrange was built around 3200 BC, which makes it older than Stonehenge and older than the pyramids at Giza. Once a year the rising midwinter sun runs the length of its passage and lights the chamber; the places in it are drawn by lottery. Every other day of the year a coach from Dublin gets you inside in about an hour.
- 1Celtic Boyne Valley & Ancient Sites Day Tour From Dublin★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 865 reviews
- 2Boyne Valley with Newgrange and Bru Na Boinne Entry★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 635 reviews
- 3Celtic Boyne Valley and Ancient Sites Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 618 reviews
The Giant’s Causeway
The Causeway is a field of hexagonal basalt columns left by a lava flow sixty million years ago, and it sits in Northern Ireland — so the day crosses a border, the shops take sterling, and most coaches stack it with the Dark Hedges and Dunluce. Thirteen hours door to door from Dublin, and nobody comes back disappointed.
- 1Giants Causeway, Dark Hedges, Dunluce & Belfast Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 8,843 reviews
- 2Dublin to Belfast Black Cab, Dunluce Castle and Giant’s Causeway★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 7,954 reviews
- 3Dublin to Dunluce Castle, Giant’s Causeway, Dark Hedges & Belfast★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,781 reviews
The Storehouse Pint
St James’s Gate has been brewing since 1759 and the Storehouse is now the most-visited paid attraction in Ireland, which is exactly why the timed slots matter. The ticket walks you up through the barley, the cooperage and the advertising, and ends in the glass-walled Gravity Bar with the Wicklow hills on the horizon.
- 1Guinness Storehouse Entry Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 16,863 reviews
- 2Guinness Storehouse Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 4,629 reviews
- 3Dublin Jameson Distillery and Guinness Storehouse Guided Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 2,608 reviews
In Dublin the rain is not a reason to stay in.
It rains here on roughly half the days of the year, usually lightly and usually not for long — locals call it a soft day and carry on. The answers are indoors and better for it: a distillery tasting room, a museum with the bog bodies in it, a Victorian pub with a snug, a food tour that moves between kitchens.
Book these before you land in Dublin.
Most of this city can be sorted from the hotel the night before. These cannot — they run on timed slots, coach seats and a studio in County Down that fills its calendar weeks out.
- 01Dublin Book of Kells, Castle and Molly Malone Statue Guided TourEntry to the Old Library runs on timed slots, and the morning ones go first.
- 02Guinness Storehouse Entry TicketThe most-visited paid attraction in the country, sold by time slot — turning up at the gate is not a plan.
- 03Game of Thrones Studio Tour with Coach TransferThe studio tour is in Banbridge, an hour and a half north, and it sells its dated tickets well ahead.
- 04Dublin to Cliffs of Moher, including Wild Atlantic Way and GalwayA thirteen-hour coach day with a fixed seat count. The good departures go before the weekend does.
By where the day takes you
Day trips from the city77 tours
The Cliffs of Moher58 tours
The Giant’s Causeway39 tours
Glendalough & Wicklow50 tours
Galway & Connemara38 tours
Belfast & the North35 tours
Howth & the coast road27 tours- Every tour we have reviewed →
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