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Paddywagon Tours

5 Beresford Place, Dublin, Ireland
01 8230822
Ranked #38 of 93 tours in Dublin
4.0 of 5 stars 496 Reviews
Type: Tours
Traveller Description: 2011 - Golden Backpack Winner - BEST UK & Ireland Tour Operator... Paddywagon Tours are the most famous tour company in Ireland. They offer... more »
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England, Arkansas
1 review
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 28 May 2012 NEW

BUSES ARE NOT SAFE not worth it at all, hire a car, our go with another company, More

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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 May 2012 NEW
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Paddywagon tour guide was rude and we felt like we couldn't approach him. The tours are disjointed, so if u don't start with the original tour group it is easy to feel excluded from the rest of the group. There was no wifi in some of the hostels and the breakfast was very very basic. The coach felt like a... More

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Penrith, England, United Kingdom
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 May 2012 NEW
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Had a bad experience with Paddywagon recently. We booked a day trip from Dublin to the Wicklow mountains and Kilkenny for 10 adults, on the morning of the tour we waited 15 minutes for the bus to turn up then the tour guide had no record of our booking!! They had no room for us. We made our way to... More

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Atchison, Kansas
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 24 May 2012 NEW

A group of American college friends and a few relatives just got back from a 10 day bus tour with Paddywagon--very sorry to return! The tour was wonderful, very relaxed and flexible: something that we appreciated with 16 different opinions of how/where/when to go to different attractions. We drove all over Southern and Northern Ireland as well, everywhere from Dublin,... More

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Saint Clairsville, Ohio
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 24 May 2012 NEW

We were in Dublin for 7 nights. We took 4 day trips with Paddywagon. Cliffs of Moher Tour(it is a MUST!!), Glendalough/Wicklow/Killkenny Tour, Giants Causeway Tour (another MUST!) and finally Aran Island! All of the tours were amazing and like nothing else you will ever see or experience other than IRELAND!! These tours made our trip to Ireland so worth... More

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Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 May 2012 NEW

We are recently back home from a fantastic 2 week trip to Ireland. Our first 3 days was spent with family before returning to Dublin for our 10 day All Ireland Tour with Paddywagon which we would highly recommend. Our first 2 days was spent with driver Lee who was very pleasant. Because we were with him such a short... More

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London
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 May 2012 NEW
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We (a friend of mine and I) participated to the tour from 30th April to 5th May 2012. What we liked: - Ireland itself because it is a beautiful Country inhabited by great and lovely people and full of stunning and breathtaking landscapes, surprisingly different from County to County, with a well-known sky so rich of light to be able... More

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Toronto, Canada
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 May 2012
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Went on the Connemara tour with Paddy Wagon. The bus was horrible. You would think that when you do a guided tour, you would be given information about the sites. There was no microphone on the bus, my seatbelt didn't work and my seat was broken- In the fullback position all day. Total rip-off, would not recommend this tour company.... More

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Philip McCracken, Guest Relations Manager at Paddywagon Tours, responded to this review
21 May 2012

Sorry you feel this way fellow traveller, truly so. But ALL our buses have seatbelts. And no one else from your tour mentioned the microphone being broken, and 2 actually sent us an email complimenting the tour-guide that day, so we're confused how you feel so strongly about this? More

Montreal, Canada
2 reviews
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 17 May 2012

Stayed a week in Dublin with my family after a long European visit featuring many hours in a cramped rental car. We really wanted nothing to do with cars or buses in Ireland. At O'Connell Tourist Office we booked PaddyWagon day trip Train Tour ( the red hop on hop off in city )to West Coast over Dublin Sightseeing Tours... More

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Dublin, Ireland
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 15 May 2012

Our experience during the Ring of Kerry was quiet good. But the way from Cork to Killarney took a bit too long driving with changing 2 buses and 3 drivers overall. The WI-FI was working only in Cork and Killarney, despite the label Free WIFI on the bus. We were expecting a better quality. The number of photo stops could... More

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