You all MUST book the Newgrange Tour with Mary Gibbons. She is a fabulous tour guide with decades of experience. The amount of knowledge in this woman's head is out of this world. I learned more from her on this one tour than I did in my entire high school history classes.
Her wisdom makes the ancient world seem not so distant and hard to understand. You walk away from her tour with a new view on how the Irish people helped shape the growth of civilization throughout history. This tour is heavy on history and archeology, but that is what I wanted. Many other tour guides give you surface facts and more modern information, but who speaks about the Irish Golden Age? Mary, that's who.
Do not miss out of her Newgrange tour. Newgrange is 1000 years older than the Pyramids. You will not regret this investment.
It is now a dream to be in that Passage Tomb on Winter Solstice.
Thank you Mary and our driver Patty!
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San Diego, California
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Could you pls specify the tour name and the location involved? Perhaps add it to your title? Thx
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Olympia, WA, USA
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This is the tour Christian is writing about. I agree that it's excellent.
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Total agree with christian.kolesar!! We took this tour back pre pandemic- August 2018. Found her tour in the Rick Steves Ireland book.
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We took the trip about 10 or so years ago and it was great. Not many people can get you inside and the site and she did
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Christian’s review is spot on!
My companions and I arrived in Dublin a couple days prior to Rick Steves’ “The Best of Ireland in 14 Days” tour and signed up for Mary Gibbons’ Newgrange, Knowth, and Hill of Tara tour. So glad we did! That tour set the tone for our Best of Ireland tour. If you can swing it, take her tour prior to the RS tour. You won’t be disappointed! Check out her tour here: https://www.newgrangetours.com/
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Long Island, NY
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I have a question for those of you who have been on Mary Gibbons tour, I went on her website and see that you have to email them to inquire about availability. How do you pay for the tour, is it in advance or the day of the tour? Also, after you inquire about the tour, do they contact you by phone or email? Thank you.
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San Jose
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We signed up for a Newgrange tour in July. We did all correspondence by email, and we will pay with cash on the day of the tour.
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We did the tour in 2018. All correspondence was via email. We paid cash on the bus. It was worth every penny.
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Carlow Ireland
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I totally agree- We had a wonderful day yesterday despite the rain. Mary was enthusiastic, informed and interesting, making up for the lack of sun. Highly recommended!
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OP
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All of the booking is done through email and you can pay in cash when Mary picks you up!