Blarney Castle Tour: Explore Cork, Kinsale, and Cobh

Discover Blarney Castle, explore Cork City, and tour Kinsale on this immersive shore excursion from Cobh. Book your adventure now!

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Cobh - Passengers will be collected in style from their Cruise Ship. Upon disembarkation, turn right, and the guide will be waiting near the pedestrian exit gate. Collection is at 07:30 for an 08:00 departure. If the ship docks later than 07:30, the tour will start 30 minutes after disembarkation begins. This ensures an early start to avoid the…
What's Included
  • On-board WiFi
  • Driver/guide
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Port pickup and drop-off
  • Live commentary on board
  • Blarney Castle and Gardens Entry Fee included
  • Back at port 1 hour before last boarding
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Lunch
Additional Information

The journey starts with a pickup from the cruise liner terminal in Cobh, Cork Harbour, your chauffeur will be there to escort you to the Blarney Castle. The entry fee for the Blarney Castle and Gardens is covered. Enjoy a scenic drive through Cork City, as your guide identifies the notable sights of the southern capital. An afternoon trip to Kinsale and…

Location
Port of Cobh
Cobh (Cork) Cruise Ship Terminal - We collect passengers from the cruise ship at 07:30 for departure @ 08:00. If your ship docks later than 07:30, don't worry! The tour will begin 30 minutes after disembarkation commences.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Gatmiami
Sep 28, 2024
Terrific Tour Company - What a terrific experience from start to end. Our tour guide, Rory, was friendly, knowledgeable and funny! The pace was excellent with plants of time to sightsee, eat and shop. Never felt rushed. Great experience with Paddyeagon Tours!
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F1476zutinab
Sep 26, 2024
Great days out - Brilliant company, staff friendly and helpful, pick up point very close to hotel ( within a few minutes walk) Tony our driver was careful and considerate. Tim our guide was very knowledgeable and had a great sense of humour. Great places visited , given enough time in each stops to go your own way or just to sit and have a coffee and watch the world go by. The trip to Blarney was well worth it , we arrived early and beat the crowds. A must as it can get very congested and you’ll have to wait in a very long queue to kiss the stone.
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Karen_f
Sep 25, 2024
Awesome Paddywagon Tour. - Our driver and tour expert Brian was awesome. His knowledge and humour made for the most interesting trip, and the fact that he got us to the front of the line at the Blarney Castle was so impressive, we didn’t have to wait in much of a line to kiss the Blarney Stone lol. Highly recommend the Paddywagon Tour.
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Junelle_g
Sep 18, 2024
Kissing the Blarney Stone - Paddywagon provided us an excellent excursion! Our guide Bryan got to Blarney Castle early and beat the crowds for the line to climb the stairs to the Blarney Stone. We were able to kiss it and then explore the beautiful gardens independently. The stop in the coastal town of Kinsale was wonderful where we had a nice lunch in an Irish pub! I highly recommend this tour!
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Chrissie_o
Sep 15, 2024
We loved walking the... - We loved walking the castle grounds and visiting the shops and pub right next to the castle. We did stop in cork at the English market
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Nancy_z
Sep 15, 2024
Bumpy and Uncomfortable - We loved visiting Blarney Castle. The grounds were beautiful. We opted not to wait 60-90 minutes to kiss the stone. We felt 3.5 hours there was an hour too long. Kinsale was a quaint little town that we enjoyed. The bus ride was not enjoyable. The roads were windy and bumpy and we were going too fast for the road.
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2021trip123
Oct 2, 2024
Don't book this tour from Paddywagon! - Bus broke down twice! Once before we got to Blarney Castle at which time the other tour bus had to pick us up to take us to the castle. We broke down again after leaving the castle even though a mechanic had shown up and supposedly fixed the bus. Paddywagon has not replied to our request for a partial refund. Paddywagon did not even send a reply email with their apologies. We got to see Blarney Castle only. The rest of the tour was cancelled and we were returned to port. Would not recommend using this company!!! Paddywagon knew this bus was in poor mechanical condition and sent it out on a tour.
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Allison_h
Sep 28, 2024
The shore excursion that didn't happen with Paddywagon Tours - We arrived at the Cobh port and met the Paddywagon Tours representative as instructed. However, the representative told us that their bus was inoperable, our tour cancelled and that we should immediately contact the office for a refund. Fortunately, a group of us who were left hanging by Paddywagon hired a taxi driver for roughly the same price to take us to Blarney Castle and Kinsale.
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Georgiegirlto
Sep 25, 2024
Never again! Bus ride no commentary - This was a bus ride It was not a tour. I could’ve booked a bus myself and gone to the locations for a lot cheaper. There was no commentary while we were on the bus explaining the places that we’re going to and some history behind them. I have travelled extensively and been on many chores. This was the first one that the bus driver didn’t speak at all, and there was no other person on the bus giving commentary about the locations we were going to. The bus driver didn’t even know the name of the cathedrals. I really don’t think he likes Ireland that much either as when we went by a castle he said I can slow down if you want to take a picture of a castle but there’s like 30,000 of them in Ireland. Also the tour company should’ve confirmed that the titanic Museum would be available for us if it was closed for private touring that day so we had an hour and a half doing nothing in Cobh as majority of the places were closed early or closed on Tuesday. I wish I could get my money back and I’m not recommending this company with any of my friends were planning on visiting Ireland.
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Margaret_h
Sep 16, 2024
Bus Breakdown Ruins Excursion - Bus malfunctioned part way to castle, other bus came back to get us after dropping off its passengers. Very late arriving at the castle, no time to go into castle due to lateness and long line. Only saw part of gardens. Bus supposedly fixed but shortly after leaving the castle it malfunctioned again. Driver said we had to go back as next part of road was downhill and he would not be able to get us back up so we'd be late for ship. He turned around and took us back to the ship and dropped us off in town. Very unsatisfactory and waste of a day. we should have almost all of our fee returned.
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