IrelandWalkHikeBike Reviews

I seldom enlist help from companies to plan my trips. I like to do the research and make my own arrangements. However, I found myself with too little time to arrange our trip to Ireland , so reached out to three recommended tour groups for help.

Ireland Walk Hike Bike responded almost immediately and quickly understood our needs and desires. Their attention never wavered and they answered my questions knowledgeably and graciously. The arrangements they made were flawless (flawless!!) and without any angst to me whatsoever. I’m still in awe. When we had to make last minute changes, they took care of them.

The staff was professional, thoughtful, caring and accurate. They provided accommodations, a rental car (with appropriate insurance), off-line mapping for the drive and hikes, excellent restaurant recommendations, historical and natural context to our travels; truly full service. And the cost was reasonable with no up charges for any rearrangements I required.

I certainly would recommend them for your trip to Ireland. In this case, we couldn’t have done our trip without them.

We did an 8 day self-guided Kerry hike and bike tour. It was an amazing adventure that we will remember for a lifetime! Francis and Petrina were wonderful and very helpful from start to finish. It was our first time to Ireland and I couldn't imagine experiencing it in any other way. Everything was mapped out and every detail taken care of. All we had to do was enjoy. Hope to come back soon and experience another part of the country with IWHB. Fantastic! Thank you :)

Ireland WalkHikeBike arranged a week of adventure including hikes along coastal cliffs and bike rides through woods. The arranged facilities were very high quality. The itinerary was well organized.

Wonderful experience, the only thing I would have liked would be to have a minimum of 2 nights in hotels after Dublin so the areas could be explored further.

Loved the accommodations

A great experience. The booking was hassle free, the nightly stays were excellent, the people were great and the scenery was beyond words.

Worked well with our group. We had two different hiking levels.
All the hikes challenged both levels.
Lovely time even though we did have a lot of rain.

Ireland Walk Hike Bike (IWHB) arranged a wonderful cycling holiday for me, my father and two friends. The cycling routes around the Ring of Kerry minimized travel on busy roads. All the lodgings were at B&Bs or small hotels with friendly staff and excellent breakfast. They provided detailed cue sheets and a GPS app to provide turn by turn instructions. Navigating through the Irish countryside was easy.

Unfortunately, my father (85 yrs.) crashed his bike towards the end of our first day cycling. He hit the ground hard, bumped his head, and cracked a rib. Several bystanders stopped to offer assistance. When IWHB was called by the other riders, they came to provide assistance with the bikes and transport for the rest of our group. I spent many hours with my father in an Irish hospital emergency room awaiting treatment. IWHB director, Linda Woods visited us in the emergency room, and brought us a meal during the long wait and spoke with the ER staff to identify reasons for the delay.

Due to his injuries, my father was unable to cycle for the rest of the trip, and was not well enough to fly home. IWHB arranged transfers for my father and another rider to each stop. Most of our group were able to continue riding with one person staying with my father each day. Each day someone from IWHB called to check on my father’s condition and to offer any assistance required.

My father is now home recovering. He has no permanent injuries but he will be sore for a few weeks. It wasn’t the holiday he was hoping for, but he remembers the kindness of the Irish people, particularly the staff of IWHB. IWHB’s support was excellent they showed a real concern for their customers. I will book my next trip to Ireland with them!

Such an easy, stress-free way to travel. They took the hassle out of planning each and every single day, but the itinerary gave us the flexibility to go with our own flow too. As we traveled from town to town we never had to worry about finding a good place to stay, a good meal, or finding something to do. Exceptional communication throughout the trip too just to check in with us or answer questions if we had them.

I booked a holiday for the fourth time with IrelandWalkHikeBike. As usual the hikes were great, so were the guides. Accommodations very different: from small B&B's to bigger guesthouses. The Irish food is excellent. So I will be back in Ireland ...

Customer service from Petrina Lynch after committing to my bike trip was excellent. Accommodations during the trip were great. The only area for improvement would be the written directions during the cycling stages. I am proficient with maps but got off the trail a couple of times during the first two days because the directions were not clear.

I stumbled onto IWHB by chance over the internet. My first hike with them was an 8-day guided hike in Kerry, which was absolutely wonderful in every possible way. I was impressed out of my skull with how well-organized everything was and how knowledgeable the guide (and of course how beautiful the views but IWHB can only be held partially accountable for those).
I went on my second hike with IWHB two years later, this time on a self-guided one. The views were beautiful again (and the sheep, oh the sheep), and I was again as pleased as I could be: with the package they prepared for us and with the accommodations and the transfers.
I will be coming back again and again.

Very well organised. A perfect holiday

This was my first visit and hike in Ireland, it was amazing.
It will not be my last visit Iám sure of that.

My walking tour with IrelandWalkHikeBike exceeded expectations. The guide was a wealth of information about archeology, history, and current events. The B&Bs were welcoming and accommodating. The other participants were friendly and interesting. And the hikes and scenery were spectacular. I loved it!

Fantastic walking routes and support throughout hike. Hoping to go on another hike with them again next year.

Very well done overall. If it had been possible, I would have rated our trip with 4.5 stars because the only draw back was the B&Bs were sometimes a fairly long walk off from the walking trail & we requested a bit of lux in places to stay when possible which did not happen. But the bike route was well explained & thought out. The garmin battery needed replacing and the team came to the rescue with new garmin. The hints for places to dine were helpful. The ride pickups to move walkers also helpful. Ireland itself was stunning & well worth visiting. Ireland Walk Hike Bike did a great job of combining walkers with a biker! Maps for both hikers and bikers to places we stayed would be helpful. Very well done overall.

Our Guide-Assisted walking tour of the Beara Peninsula was thrilling. It was so amazing to be up on those hills with so few people around, but many sheep. The trails were well-marked and in great condition. The views were indescribable. An excellent selection of West Cork's best natural offerings.
We stayed at several nice B&Bs, and one fantastic one. Our group was small and congenial, and with good information provided by our guide Maurice Walsh, we were able to decide for ourselves which route we would follow each day. Most evenings we opted to eat and drink as a group, which added to the enjoyment.

An adventure we will always remember. Great staff, scenery, accommodations and food. Well thought out itinerary and also flexible. Thank you for the wonderful experience of Ireland.

Great Trip! EVERYONE at WalkHikeBike was above and beyond. From the moment we started inquiring about the trip and throughout our 8 days in Ireland, we felt like we had a family watching over us!!! Such a good experience! So kind and helpful with ALL of our stay in Ireland!

We hiked for 8 days in Ireland at the end of May/first part of June. I cannot say enough great things about Ireland Walk Hike Bike. Our accommodations selected by IWHB were outstanding and each host/hostess was warm and welcoming. The transits provided on a couple of days were also extremely nice since we would have otherwise had to start our day's hike on very busy roadways. The staff at IWHB were extremely nice, informative, and very patient to answer all our questions, both pre-trip and while we were there. The route notes provided with each day's hike were also very informative, clear, and easy to follow and referenced places to eat, etc. A special thank you to Maurice and Petrina who provided us with all the information we needed.

An incredible and beautiful experience. Everyone in our group was thrilled. Excellent scenery and excellent dining. I cannot recommend in highly enough for walkers and hikers!

My wife Cathie and I truly enjoyed our experience. Maria, who did the admin and planning was always available, responsive and knowledgeable. Denis our guide was great. He is an experienced outdoorsman and had a wealth of knowledge about the area, history, geology, wildlife and plants. He was very easy to spend time with. We had some physical issues that limited two of our group and he was very flexible picking walks that we all could do when they came along and harder, longer ones when they didn’t. All the walks were interesting, varied, beautiful and for the most, not crowded. We felt we got off the usual tourist routes. We stayed in 3 very nice places, the longest, 5 nights in Killarney Lodge, we liked the best. It was centrally located in town, friendly, quiet. We loved the staff and the wonderful breakfast. Catherine, the owner, was a gem. The other 2 were very nice as well, but as we were there longer, we got a better feeling of the Lodge.
All and all we had a great trip. We can recommend IrelandWalkHikebikel highly.

Absolutely loved walking/hiking the Kerry Way from Killarney to Glenbeigh. You gave great instructions along with the App was perfect. My only suggestion to make it better would be when you have a driver drop us off at a different location on the trail to shorten the day, have the driver make sure to get us started in the right direction. Sometimes starting at the directions part way through was confusing where to go. We had a pretty major issue one day with that but we had not read the instructions correctly. So, having that little extra help to make we have it right when starting at a different point when being dropped off would really help. I loved walking through miles & miles of sheep fields or old ruins having nothing to worry about. Just walking, eating & sleeping. Also discovered that the people in Ireland are the nicest of anyplace I have traveled. Thank you for a wonderful experience.

There were 10 of us hiking together during the first week of May in 2019. The response I received from all our friends after the hike was how everything from transportation, lodging, communication, and the hiking went without a hitch. We have never been on a trip where everyone from Maurice to the drivers and the owners of of our accomodations we stayed in, were so accommodating and quick to respond to our needs. Maurice in particular, prior to our trip was quick to respond to some of our unusual transportation changes we needed to make throughout our trip . He also assisted us in changes we needed to make during our trip due to a few of our travelers not able to complete a few legs of the hike. The response time and solutions, were completed in most cases less than 1 hour. That was amazing. We have never in all our holidays been treated so well. The hike itself was above what we had expected . Beautiful countryside, great views and just enough challenges to let you know you were actually hiking and earned your Guinness at the pub at the end of the day. The Wild Atlantic Way Hike is not to be missed. Thank you for making our Holiday a memory we will never forget

We did a five day guided hike in southwest Ireland. The company was great with communication and preparing us for our hike. Our guide was outstanding and our B&Bs were very nice.