Galway Ireland Tours

Galway Tours Reviews

What travellers wrote after their own day out of Galway, paraphrased, beside every operator's published rating. Prices and what each fare covers sit with the Galway day tours listed here.

Traveller reviews from the tours listed here

These are travellers' accounts of the day they booked. The one-, three- and four-star ones stay: a note that a food walk ran more to dessert than dinner, or that rough seas cancelled a cliff cruise, tells you more about choosing than another line of praise.

What travellers keep saying

They name the driver, not the route

Shane, Richie, Phil, Ivan, Arthur, Murph: the difference between a good day and a flat one is told almost entirely in names. Several say plainly that they were glad somebody else drove the road through the Burren to Doolin, past Dunguaire Castle.

The weather is part of the product

Rough seas cancel the cliff cruise and the crossing to the Aran Islands, and travellers who lost them still rate the day well when the operator rearranged it. Others describe dolphins off Doolin and blue sky in August, in the same month.

Two hours at an abbey is not long

The Connemara reviewers who mention Kylemore Abbey almost all mention time: one thanks a guide for adding some, another says the garden was better than the house. Anyone who wants both should plan for the walk between them.

The long day from Dublin divides people

It is the most-reviewed day on this list and its own travellers put the ratio plainly: seven hours on a coach for three and a half in Galway. The ones who loved it came for the countryside in between.

Operator ratings and review counts

These figures are the operators' own, published on their booking listings and shown here as they stand on the day they were read. They belong to the operators, not to us. The last column says where each day actually goes, because the product names do not always.

TourRatingReviewsPriceWhere the day goes
From Dublin: Cliffs of Moher, Burren & Galway City Day Tour4.827,509From $81 per personDublin
Galway to Cliffs of Moher, Aillwee Cave & Dunguaire Castle Tour4.93,566From $76 per personCounty Clare
Galway to Aran Islands & Cliffs of Moher Day Tour & Cliffs Cruise4.82,698From $99 per personthe Aran Islands
Cliffs of Moher & the Burren Tour from Galway4.92,115From $65 per personCounty Clare
Galway to Aran Islands Inisheer, Doolin, Cliffs of Moher Day Tour4.91,939From $94 per personthe Aran Islands
Connemara Day Trip Including Leenane Village and Kylemore Abbey from Galway4.81,253From $76 per personConnemara
From Galway: Connemara and Kylemore Abbey Day Tour4.71,070From $58 per personConnemara
Galway Food Tours4.9667From $106 per personGalway city
The Welcome to Galway Walking Tour4.9604From $17 per personGalway city
Galway: City Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour4.5491From $24 per personGalway city
Small Group - Cliffs Cruise and Aran Islands in a Day from Galway4.9436From $153 per personthe Aran Islands
Walking and Tasting Tour of Galway City4.8369From $82 per personGalway city
Electric Bike Tour of Galway City with Expert Local Guide4.9230From $100 per personGalway city
Galway Celtic Mythology Tour4.9219From $35 per personGalway city
Small Group Kylemore Abbey, Sheepdog Demo & Connemara Tour4.9206From $135 per personConnemara
Cliffs of Moher Hiking Tour from Galway - Small Group5.0108From $105 per personCounty Clare
Galway Private Walking Tour5.0105From $159 per personGalway city

The two largest review counts belong to days that start somewhere other than Galway city centre or that sell a combination rather than one place. Which kind of day suits which traveller is set out on the Cliffs of Moher tours page and the Connemara tours page.