Group Travel Tour Operator and DMC for County Donegal, Ireland

Dreaming of Derry and Donegal

Causeway Coast - Giant's Causeway ©Tourism Ireland, Photographer Art Ward
The Peace Bridge ©Tourism Ireland
Glenveagh National Park Castle, County Donegal, Ireland -Panoramic view ©Courtesy Gareth Wray Photography
Glenveagh National Park ©Chris Hill Photographic, Tourism Ireland
Glenveagh Castle and Gardens, County Donegal, Ireland

7 day tour

From £799 per person - minimum 20 passengers

Recently tried and tested!

Combine these two great destinations to explore this wonderful corner of Ireland with some of the finest scenery and dramatic landscapes.

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Dates

March - October 2024 & 2025

Suggested itinerary by coach

Day 1

Overnight Scotland

Head north for an overnight stop in Dumfries.

Day 2

Giant’s Causeway and Antrim Coast

We take a mid-day sailing to Larne and take the Antrim coastal road to Ballycastle and the Giants Causeway, where we visit the UNESCO World Heritage site. Continue to Derry for two nights.

Day 3

Derry Free Day

(coach driver’s rest day)

Enjoy a guided walking tour of Derry’s 17th century city walls and St Columbs Cathedral. Afternoon to relax and enjoy the many sights in Derry.

Day 4

Glenveagh National Park and Lifford Courthouse

Today, visit Glenveagh National Park, a remote and hauntingly beautiful wilderness in the heart of the Derryveagh Mountains in County Donegal. Located at the centre of the Park, on the edge of Lough Veagh, enjoy a guided tour of Glenveagh Castle. This afternoon, visit Lifford Courthouse to step back in time for a ‘Live’ tour of Donegal’s original county jail! An actor will take you down into the original dungeon cells where you will face arrest by the prison guard and suffer a lesson with the stern schoolmaster!

Day 5

Slieve League Cliffs and Donegal Bay Cruise

Travel via Killybegs to view the spectacular Slieve League cliffs, the highest in Europe at 1,972 ft above the sea. Enjoy the views of the Glengesh Pass and on to Donegal where you will have some free time to wander the old town and enjoy a cruise.

Day 6

Belleek Pottery

Morning visit to the world famous Belleek Pottery factory, enjoy a tour and watch the pottery being made and speak to craftspeople at work. Afternoon drive via the Ulster heart lands to Belfast for overnight stop.

Day 7

Return Home

After breakfast, take the ferry from Larne to Scotland and return home.

Dates	7 days / 6 nights
2023 dates	Price on request
2024 dates	From £799.00 per person

Prices include return ferry. If you would like a price travelling by air, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Single room supplement available upon request.

Exchange rate based on £1 = €1.192 as of January 2022. All prices are per person based on sharing a double or twin room and with one free place for a coach driver or group organiser in a single room, both are based on a minimum 20 full fare paying passengers. Prices do not include UK coach hire, travel or travel insurance. Dates are subject to availability. Smaller groups can be quoted for on request. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. Greatdays Holidays Limited has an ATOL licence (4279) and all of our air package tours are protected under this licence. In the unlikely event of our insolvency, the Civil Aviation Authority will ensure that you are not stranded abroad and will arrange to refund any monies you have paid to us for an advance booking. All the flights and flight-inclusive holidays on this tour are financially protected by the ATOL scheme. When you pay you will be supplied with an ATOL Certificate. Please ask for it and check to ensure that everything you booked (flights, hotels and other services) is listed on it. Please see our booking conditions for further information or for more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to: www.atol.org.uk/ATOLCertificate. Our website policy is to use only copyright free images or images which have been authorised to us for free use by the owner. If you consider an image to be unauthorised or to be your property, please contact us immediately and if invalid we will have the image removed. If your image requires crediting or is missing a copyright statement then we will be pleased to add this to the webpage, contact us at info@greatdays.co.uk