Planning trip to Paris & Ireland

If you go to any website that sells airline tickets, indicate that you are doing a multi-city trip. You must do this! There will be a checkbox somewhere to indicate this. Then enter your starting point and destination going over, Example: the first leg or city of the trip could be say, Boise to Dublin. Second part of the trip could be a short connecting flight from Dublin to Paris. Third part could be Paris back to Boise. It's pretty easy to do but you have to pay attention to what you enter and the flights you chose, and the dates - because you often cannot change once you purchase your tickets, or it will cost a lot. If this is your first time doing this perhaps a travel agent will give you peace of mind. I started out getting tickets through a travel agent, now do it on my own. Both ways work fine.

If you're not comfortable using the internet to make your own reservations, by all means, use a travel agent. There are many possibilities to consider with this itinerary and a travel agent would be able to give you more ideas than you might come up with on your own. Either way, look at the trip from both directions. It may be cheaper to fly into Dublin and out of Paris rather than the other way around. Or, into Shannon and out of Paris. Between the two, you could include that trip in the original purchase or use a European airline. For something a little different, you could use bus or rail to get to Rosslare or Cherbourg take the ferry from one to the other.

Have you checked the Irish airline, Aer Lingus, site yet. They could sell you a ticket with time in both Ireland and France.