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Florida Girl


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I am just beginning to start planning a trip to Ireland for June of this year.  I need to decide on some basic stuff. 


Just a little background to help with your thoughts.


Traveling will be My husband and I with my son (11).  This will be the beginning of a longer trip.  After the Ireland part of our trip, my husband will be meeting up with his 2 - 20 something sons in London to head to Germany for some world cup soccer watching.  My son and I will head to Scotland for 5-6 days. 


We would like to spend 5 to 7 days in Ireland.  None of us have been there (my son has never been out of the US).  Then my son and I will take train from London to Edinburgh and hope to visit Inverness and Skye through mini tours - but that's a whole other planning process (which I haven't started yet).


So............


For general logistic purposes PLEASE help me work through the flight pattern for this trip. 


My son and I need to get to Ireland and London then back to the states after visiting Scotland.  My husband needs to get to Ireland, London then back from Germany.  Would it be best to make the Trip from Tampa to London then do independent flights to the other locations?  I open to any suggestions.


Now about our trip in Ireland.  with 5-7 days for sight seeing we want to do the Ireland things. Don't want to drive all the time, but to get out of the car and do things - hike, maybe bike, boat etc.  We love outdoors, adventure, active activities such as hiking, biking etc.  We won't not need to do the dolphin boat trip as we see dolphins while kayaking here in Florida.  Petting zoos are out too.  We want to experience things we can't experience here where we live - like cliffs, castles, music, hilly countryside. 


If you could give me a portion of Ireland that you think we would enjoy the most and maybe 2 different family friendly B&B's where we could call base - maybe 3 nights in 2 different places or 2 nights at 3 different places.  Plus, I'd like not to duplicate the same type of things that we may see again in Scotland.  For Instance - if the most spectacular cliffs are in Ireland, than we will not put it on the list for Scotland or visa versa.


We prefer more upscale inns or a cool castle to stay if possible.   Thanks in Advance



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Florida Girl, you have come to the right place to plan the Ireland portion of your trip, I have been lurking here for a while planning our first family trip to Ireland for July 2006 and this is a terrific site. Michelle's book, Best Little Guide to Ireland, is great, I have the 2005 version, and Michelle keeps me up to date on whatever places she has discovered since that one was published.

I have a pile of guidebooks as I love travel research. If you only buy one, get Michelle's. Okay, I am sounding like a commercial but I can't help it! I think it's really cool that Michelle personally stays in all the places she recommends in her book. (Most guidebooks are put together and researched by committee...)

How great to share the experience of your son's first trip out of the country! I have 3 kids, the youngest is now 18, and have many fine travel memories.

If you want to know about musical pubs, ask Mark. Your son is allowed in up until a certain time to eat a meal in many pubs, apparently. If you want to know everything about Ireland, ask Michelle.

Enjoy planning your trip. There are some good trip reports to read on this web-site too, in the trip report section.

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Florida Girl,


Your trip is a bit complicated but I think the best plan is to fly into London first. From London you can branch out to the other areas you mentioned. Also, there is more competition of airlines flying into London and airfares are usually a bit less expensive than flying into Ireland. The flights from London to Ireland take about an hour.


Some good airlines to fly in Europe are Aer Lingus (I took them from Germany to Ireland last spring), British Midland, Lufthansa and there are low-cost carriers like Ryan Air.


I think that you need to tackle the dates, where you will go and when, as well as your airfares first. Then when you have your firm dates you can move on to making an itinerary.


I hope that makes some sense out of a rather complicated plan.


Michele



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