Best tips for traveling from Canada to Scottland and Ireland??? Cheapest flights?

Question

What are some great places to find the best flights?

What about great bed and breakfast? Hotels? Tourist must see?????

Will be traveling only 2 weeks in August 2009.

Answer 1

I found Aerlingus (www.aerlingus.com) to be the cheapest for flights.  But ultimately, check out places like orbitz.com to find what is cheapest.

Avoid hotels -- they're expensive.  B&Bs are cheaper.  And if you want to stay in an area for an extended period of time (i.e. 5-7 days), check out self-catering cottages.  Those are the best deal...and you can go to the store, pick up some groceries and make your breakfast or lunch there.  It saved us a LOT of money and then we also didn't waste our time sitting in a restaurant waiting to be served all the time.

I loved the west coast of Ireland...Clare (the Burren is an amazing landscape -- go up the 480 and see the sites there...the Poulnabrone Dolmen, the Poulawack Cairn, etc...also check out the Cliffs of Moher, overly touristy and all, but worth it!).  Mayo has many lovely sites, especially along the coast.  Donegal is WILD and just beautiful.  We stayed in a cottage on the Atlantic coast, near Dungloe.  Drive across Donegal county in the north and you can see a lot of the old famine cottages.  It's an amazingly heart-wrenching site.

I suggest going to the website someone here already suggested...or getting a guide book and seeing what is out there.  Ultimately, the best thing to do is stick to a small area and see the sites nearby.  There is a lot to see and too much driving will make you feel like your time has been wasted.

Enjoy!  I wish I had the money to go back!

Answer 2

www.discoverireland.ie

If you want to take in Scotland and Ireland, may I suggest you tour Northern Ireland and take the ferry to Scotland. Great way to see them

Answer 3

Here are some websites that might help you with cheap flights:

http://www.cheapflights.ca/

http://www.americanholidays.com/content/...

http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/fb/fligh...

Croke Park, Wicklow Jail and Kilmanen Jail are great things to see.

You could go down to Cork and See the Blarney Stone. The myth is I you kiss it you’ll never shut up!

For the scenery I like the Wicklow mountains.--- > http://www.gsi.ie/NR/rdonlyres/6CC9C746-...

Also in Wicklow, are the Sugarloaf mountains. They’re very beautiful too.-- > http://www.lookaroundireland.com/countie...

In Dublin, The best night life is definitely in Temple Bar.

If you want a relaxing, quiet holiday in the country or enjoy the scenery, then any parts of the country will do it for you really like Donegal, Galway, Clare, Mayo etc.

If you want a shopping, busy, touristy holiday then anywhere (or most places) in Dublin will do it for you.

A town in Kerry (the South of Ireland, It’s beside Cork too) called Tralee is very touristy. It is the largest town in Ireland.

It has many attractions and loads of shops and a great night life.

It’s great for young people and people with small families. It suits everyone.

It has an aqua dome swimming pool which is always packed and outside the pool, You can play crazy Golf.

Here is a site on Tralee:  http://www.tralee-insight.com/

Here are some sights on Tourism in Ireland:

http://www.tourismireland.com/

http://www.shamrock.org/

http://www.discoverireland.com/ire/

http://www.visitdublin.com/ (Dublin Tourism)

Good Luck. = )

Answer 4

well which cities will you be visiting in the two countries??