Thank you in advance for any suggestions. My husband and I will be flying in/out of Dublin and staying in Ireland for 15 days from Mid-May to early June. We will have a car and I have been to several countries where I've driven on the left side of the road. We plan to take some small group tours to places of interest because we enjoy the information provided by guided tours. Should we stay in 3-4 cities and take day tours (either self driven or tours) or drive to new cities/towns every 1-2 days? This is our first trip to Ireland.
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To me, the answer is obvious, with some qualifiers....
If you can do day trips (which means you're not in it for the evening hours or nightlife)
then doing day trips will save a lot of time that would otherwise be spent packing, moving,
checking in, getting the lay of the land, etc.
Staying longer in one place might allow you to rent an apartment, which would save on
meal expenses, allow you to do laundry, etc.
Of course, if your itinerary as constructed would involve a lot of backtracking, then more cities
in a linear progression would save time as well.
I would think that if you based in the right 2-3 cities, you'd have a good selection of day
tours available to you.