- FREE Guinness
- FREE sexy Green T-shirt
- FREE Parties & finger-food
- FREE Paddys Day goodie bag
The Mother of all St. Paddy’s extravaganzas!! Others will claim the same, don’t be fooled! In 2008 this and or other St. Paddys day tours were featured on Irish Television in the reality TV programme 'Life without me'.
Click this link to view this tour's appearance on national TV
Check the details for yourself, let the Irish show you Ireland!!
All-inclusive return coach/ferry from London, FREE exclusive Paddywagon Party with real 100% Irish tour guides (we guarantee our guides are Irish born & raised, can other tour companies guarantee this? this might be youre only time in Ireland on our National day, party with us - the Irish!) we'll also give you a FREE Paddys Day t-shirt!
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ITINERARY
Leaves London’s Kilburn Tube station on Monday March 15th at 6.30 am
Leaves Dublin at evening on Saturday 20th March, returns to London on the evening ferry. Arrives back in London on Sunday 21st March @ 6am approx.
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Failte/welcome to one of the most fun tours of your travel life!
Day 1: London-To Dublin
We are honoured to have you on board to share our beloved motherland with us.
We meet outside the tube station at 6.30am in Kilburn, home of London’s Irish community. Our fleet of super green coaches will be quite the sight as we drive north, through Birmingham and the Celtic beauty of North Wales for our ferry across the Irish sea from Holyhead to Dublin. We'll teach you Irish songs on board and of course provide you with FREE Guinness for our on bus party.
We arrive in Dublins fair city in the evening, check into our fine city centre accommodation. Tonight we’ll party at the massive Paddy wagon party - a real shindig full of shenanigans, rish dance and singalong Irish songs at our top-secret location* on the banks of the river Liffey. FREE finger food with our compliments.
* We keep the venue secret until you are with us on our coaches as we constantly have this gatecrashed by participants of other tour companies who wish to party with real irish people and not a zillion tourists. This party is strictly for our 100% irish staff, our friends and you - our valued guests.
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Day 2: Dublin city tour & tour to Glendalough
After fine hearty breakfast and maybe a romantic stroll through relaxed morning Dublin, we'll take you on a
city tour of Dublin by coach, saving you a whopping €15, the price of a reguar open-top bus city tour.
Then we’ll mount up and go off on a relaxing and enjoyable half-ay-tour to Glendalough. See where HIlary Swank swooned over Gerard Butler in the movie 'PS I Love You'. This is the romanitc, scenic Ireland you've come to see. The monastic citadel of St. Kevin with its ruined towers and celtic crosses is set in the majestic Wicklow mountains, this beauty spot was chosen by Mel Gibson to be the Scottish highlands in the blockbuster Braveheart. It is located less than an hour from Dublin, so a nice wee cruisey day out, no worries!
On our return in early afternoon we'll all head down together to the revered Guinness Brewery, as Paddywagon customers youll be special guests of Guinness and we’ll have privileged access to the all glass, trendy ‘gravity bar’ on top of the brewery, with 360 degree views of Dublin town.
Youll be free tonight to take in a few cultural activities in Dublin city centre, go to the city centre carnival or just find a cosy pub and make new friends! Dublin will be packed, it’s the eve of St. Patricks Day! The Paddywagon clan holds its traditional annual Paddys Day get-together in our local pub - The Celt (the best pub in Ireland, therefore the world!), you're more than welcome to join us, we'd love to see you there.
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Day 3: St. Patricks Day in Dublin
'Hail glorious St. Patrick, dear Saint of our isle, on us thy dear children bestow a sweet smile' ... as we learned to sing as irish school-children.
Our beloved St. Patricks day.The only national festival celebrated the world over! Yours to enjoy in our compsany.
Morning free to relax and explore. At 11am we’ll regroup and go to O’Connell bridge to take our places to watch the magic and 'ri-ra' of the St. Patricks Parade - the worlds biggest non-military parade and festival proceeds past us with over tens of thousands of participants and close to a million spectators!
In the evening maybe try out the monster ceili, or the many other activities we have laid on for you our valued guests. Afterwards, it’s a celebration of human happiness in the famed Temple Bar area!
6PM it's the world famous Paddywagon St. Patrick's Day party! As seen on National TV. Meet in the Arlington Hotel, on the banks fo the river Liffey to have a really brilliant night of celebration. Party with the Irish, love our music and dance the night away in our exclusive city centre venue.
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Day 4: Dublin to Galway
Leave Dublin's Paddy Palace at 8am and begin your adventures in the phoenix Park, Europes largest! 5,000 Red Deer running wild, the Papal Cross and Aras an Uachtarain (the home of our beloved President Mary). Experience the spiritual beauty of The HIll of Tara, the Ancient capital of Ireland. Then its off to visit Trim Castle in the Royal country of Meath to visit Trim Castle - the finest Castle in all of Ireland. Onwards to Galway, irelands most beautiful city and party central. We'll find a nice pub down by Galway bay to enjoy the electrifying traditional music. Overnight in Galway, by the wild Atlantic.
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Day 5: Galway to Killarney
Today you will have the wild atlantic ocean by your side as we cruise down the West Coast. There are stone walls for as far as the eye can see and zillions of cliffs hugging little Irish sheep! Run around the lunar landscape of the Burren before gazing in awe at the majesty that is the Cliffs of Moher. Overnight in Killarney, Irelands premier tourist town. Consider an enjoyable Horse led ride through the Killarney National Park on the world famous Jaunting Cars (optional).
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Day 6: Killarney to Dublin to London
Cross the Cork and Kerry Mountains to kiss the legendary Blarney Stone on top of Blarney Castle. Get the gift of the gab for 7 years and finally understand why we Irish are so 'full of Blarney'. Souvenir heaven! You'll make your way up through the battle fields of "Braveheart" andf the Curragh racecourse where our famous 'Derby' horse race is run annually, to Dublin in time for our evening ferry back to good old London town. A comfortable drive down south through England will have us back in London for early Sunday morning.
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Leaves London’s Kilburn Tube station on Sunday March 15th at 6.30 am
Leaves Dublin at evening on Saturday 20th March, returns to London early Monday morning
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5 TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS TOUR
1. ST PATS FESTIVAL Dublin & brilliant tour of Ireland for 3DAYS!
2. AFFORDABILITY - No other tour co. comes close to matching our value for money, check for yourself
3. BEST Guides! As seen on National TV. Award-winning, 100% Irish ...
4. ALL-INCLUSIVE - we include Guinness store-house - FREE Guinness, FREE Paddywagon T-Shirt, FREE St. Pats parties with our 100% Irish staff
5. BEST REPUTATION! We're recommended world-wide after a decade of passionate hard work and delivering consistently good tours
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OUR GUIDES MEET OUR PRESIDENT - the above pic features two of our 'senior' tour-guides, Cathal O'Connell & Stephen McPhilemy, enjoying the proud moment upon being received by Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Ireland at the Presidential Palace - Aras an Uachtarain - in Dublin's Phoenix Park this summer.
All of our professional guides are highly trained, proudly patriotic and among the best trained and highly respected in the world of travel
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TOUR INCLUDES ALL THIS:
- Return journey Dublin – London in a sexy green Paddywagon
- Ferry across the Irish sea – Great laugh!
- Invite to Paddywagon's legendary 'welcome to Dublin' party
- Guinness Brewery - Exclusive access & a FREE pint of the black stuff!
- City Tour of Dublin
- Paddywagon info Pack
- Invite to the legendary Paddywagon St. Patricks Day Party
- Irish music, dancing and singalongs all inclusive
- Guided Tour to Glendalough (Braveheart location)
- Monster Ceili (learn to Irish dance!!)
- Enjoy the massive city centre Parade
- The full services of the 100% Irish Paddywagon team and clan!
- Downtown Dublin Accommodation and Breakfasts
- 3 day tour of Southern Ireland
- Overnight's in Killarney and Galway
- Cliffs of Moher
- Blarney Castle
- FREE PADDYWAGON T-SHIRT
- and much, much more
5 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT ST. PATRICKS DAY
- St. Patrick was a Roman Briton & not actually Irish
- The big 4 Parades are in the US! Dublins is 4th biggest
- Paddy is a common short-name for Patrick
- St. Patrick used the Shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity
- St. Pat banished ALL snakes from Ireland in 432AD
Paddywagon Tours is a household name in the 4 corners of Ireland, we have been featured hundreds of times on national Television, Radio and the print Media. The good people of Ireland welcome us to their parishes and villages with a great enthusiasm, come share that genuine enthusiasm, passion and warm welcome.
FOGRA-NOTE-ACHTUNG-ATTENTION: Paddywagon Tours Ltd/ accepts no responsibility for ferries to and from the UK being cancelled or postponed due to adverse weather conditions. If the good Lord cooks up a storm and the ferry companies in their wisdom decide it is better to wait to sail the ferry rather than risk it overturning or sinking in choppy seas then we must abide by that decision even if it means you arrive in Ireland or depart/arrive from Ireland or the UK at an earlier or later time. In the unlikely event of this happening it is beyond our control and we accept no responsbility or liablilty for it.
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