First time trip to Ireland- 7 day- Suggested Itineraries

Greetings from Ireland, will the vouchers you have restrict you to certain B&Bs and destinations or can you basically go anywhere with them? Once I know that Ill be able to make some great recommendations
Is mise le meas (Gaelic for 'from me to you with respect')
Stephen McPhilemy
Rick Steves Ireland Tour-Guide
Dingle

Hi Stephen. The voucher says open B and B. Here are the restrictions if you will from the voucher:
Your voucher entitles you to stay at any 3-star B&B listed on http://clients.reserveabandb.com; if you choose a 4-star
B&B you will be responsible for a supplement of 2 Euro per person/per night; and 5-star B&Bs require a supplement
of 6 Euro per person/per nigh - payable locally, directly to the home host.
B&Bs located in County Dublin will require a 5 Euro supplement per person, per night, payable directly to the home
host; B&Bs located in Northern Ireland will require a £5 supplement per person, per night, payable directly to the
home host.
Check-in is between 3pm and 6pm; late arrivals (after 6pm) are only available when pre-approved by the home host.
Check-out is no later than 11am.
We want to book these ASAP.

Also, here is a potential site seeing itinerary one of my friends came up with. please let me know your thoughts and is this realistic to cover/see everything we want?
Monday: .5 hrs to our hotel from Dublin so 1 hour and change max unless we uber from hotel. FYI our hotel is 30 minutes from Northern Ireland which is essentially a different country.

Tuesday: 1hr to powers court and waterfalls.
2hr to Kilkenny.
3 total hours

Wednesday: 1 hr to Rock of cashel
If we don't chose to see rock of cashel or do go it's still 2 hrs to cork (blarney stone)
2-3 hrs total

Thursday: this is the most open ended part. 1.5 hours to Killarney straight shot
Ring of Kerry is outside Killarney so we could drive all day if need be.

Friday: 2 hr to limerick. 1 hour to cliffs of moher

Saturday: 1 hr to Galway or 3 if we drive up the coast.

Sunday or Saturday: 2.5 hours to Dublin from Galway.

thank you!
Rebecca

I'm confused. Where is the hotel? 1/2 hour from NI? Why there? And yes NI is another country.

We have a hotel the first night called the Drogheda . The rest of the nights are open vouchers. Any advice? Thanks!

Hi Rebecca, all the locations you've mentioned sound good. Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Killarney etc
Drogheda wouldnt be a top-choice for visitors, but I think its great and very historic (go into St. Peters Cathedral and see the preserved head of St Oliver Plunkett, executed by the English in the 1680s). You are also close to Newgrange and the Hill of Tara and the most amazing Celtic Crosses in the country are the minutes away in monasterboice.

Are you saving money by using this voucher system? Or is there no cost to you.

You'll have no problems finding good and affordable B&Bs at this time of year all over Ireland!

Enjoy. Slainte/Good health
Stephen McPhilemy
Ireland

ps just a polite FYI for anyone interested, many many of us do not see 'Northern Ireland' as a separate country.
I was born in Derry which is in "NI" (I still spend half my time in my hometown, the rest down in Dingle),
My passport is Irish, it clearly states that Derry is in Ireland, my allegiance is to Ireland and to the President of Ireland as my Head of State.
I understand of course where someones coming from when they say "NI is a different country", and I teach my children to be respectful of the wishes of those in "NI" who wish to remain with the UK. From a travel perspective there are a few things different that may mildly affect a trip - different cellphone networks, speed limits etc are in miles not kilmometres, £GBP and not €euro, line on the side of road is white and not yellow etc)
But while I accept that Northern Ireland is a different political entity from the rest of Ireland, I don't at all regard it as a different country.
I think its important that American travellers to Ireland are at least sensitive of the issue, that many decent and proud Irish people regard the entire Island as the same country.
Ok apologies for the rant, you can see we Irish get passionate over certain things :)
Is mise le meas/from me to you with respect
Stephen McPhilemy

Yes we are using vouchers since we purchased a package deal. Do you have any names of any B and B along the area of our itinerary? I have used some that Rick recommended in Madrid years ago and they were great! I have his Ireland 2016 book but have not had a chance to peruse it yet. I am looking to use vouchers soon in case we need a back up plan.
My sincerest apologies for offendeing you or anyone else. Alhough i did not make the comment, i take responsibility and will make sure everyone is much more culturally aware when we travel. I understand . Both my parents are immigrants to the US and I am not your "typical American" but do understand. Thank you for educating us more on your beautiful country and I am excited for this trip. NI will definitely be in our travel
Plans next time!
Sincerely- Rebecca

Didnt offend me at all Rebecca, just making an educational point thats important to me and mine (and hundreds of thousands like me who you'll meet on your travels here). No worries.
No point in giving you B&B recommendations unless they are signed up to your voucher's network as those vouchers you have will only be valid in certain B&Bs in every town. Although I imagine they will be a very high quality, Im a B&B owner myself and I don't sign my property up to the voucher schemes, but I would be very confident that the B&Bs the vouchers are applicable for are excellent and of a very high standard.
Best wishes on your journey through Ireland, Im excited for you!
Slainte/Good health
Stephen