Daytrips Ireland

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Summary: Daytrips Ireland in my Carry-on Luggage!
Review: Although I read Patricia Preston's "Daytrips Ireland" three times before traveling, I still took the heavily highlighted and underlined book with me. There was just more valuable material in the book than I could memorize. Especially helpful were the pages with little blow-up maps for day trips like through Connemara. Although I thought our meals would be casual, pop-in-wherever we were, I also ended up using the restaurant recommendations. Pat obviously knows the people in the places she recommends.

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Summary: Daytrips Ireland in my Carry-on Luggage!
Review: Although I read Patricia Preston's "Daytrips Ireland" three times before traveling, I still took the heavily highlighted and underlined book with me. There was just more valuable material in the book than I could memorize. Especially helpful were the pages with little blow-up maps for day trips like through Connemara. Although I thought our meals would be casual, pop-in-wherever we were, I also ended up using the restaurant recommendations. Pat obviously knows the people in the places she recommends.

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Summary: One of the Best..!
Review: Daytrips is an excellent book and a must when going to Ireland. It is very informative, thorough, and user friendly. Pat, the author, has broken the country down into 55 daily trips and in each one she suggests not only a complete set of tour directions and stops but also a list of places to eat as well as "practicalities" or very useful suggestions to make your time enjoyable. She offers an online forum where she will answer any question within 24 hours. Her website also has suggested places to stay that go along with her daytrips. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed her book and have used it extensively to planning our trip to Ireland. It will definitely accomply us there. With all the travel books on Ireland out there, this is by far the best.

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Summary: A Must for Planning a Trip to Ireland
Review: Daytrips is an excellent book and a must when going to Ireland. It is very informative, thorough, and user friendly. Pat, the author, has broken the country down into 55 daily trips and in each one she suggests not only a complete set of tour directions and stops but also a list of places to eat as well as "practicalities" or very useful suggestions to make your time enjoyable. She offers an online forum where she will answer any question within 24 hours. Her website also has suggested places to stay that go along with her daytrips. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed her book and have used it extensively to planning our trip to Ireland. It will definitely accomply us there. With all the travel books on Ireland out there, this is by far the best.

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Summary: Great book for planning and touring!
Review: I and my wife just returned from a 2-1/2 week trip to Ireland. Before we left, I thoroughly read the book, highlighting all areas of interest. There are tons of ideas to choose from. The book was a tremendous help in planning the trip. I also looked at Fodor, Insight, Frommer, Lonely Planet, etc. but they were not that good by comparison. The only other book used was Eyewitness Ireland which was excellent for the photos. While in Ireland, we both referred only to Daytrips Ireland in helping to plan things to do, possible restaurants, churches, driving routes, etc. The book was a great help while we toured. We also felt the information provided was very accurate. Excellent and highly recommended!!

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Summary: Great book for planning and touring!
Review: I and my wife just returned from a 2-1/2 week trip to Ireland. Before we left, I thoroughly read the book, highlighting all areas of interest. There are tons of ideas to choose from. The book was a tremendous help in planning the trip. I also looked at Fodor, Insight, Frommer, Lonely Planet, etc. but they were not that good by comparison. The only other book used was Eyewitness Ireland which was excellent for the photos. While in Ireland, we both referred only to Daytrips Ireland in helping to plan things to do, possible restaurants, churches, driving routes, etc. The book was a great help while we toured. We also felt the information provided was very accurate. Excellent and highly recommended!!

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Summary: A helpful and worth having book.
Review: I don't know that I would call this book indispensible - the Eyewitness Ireland tourbook would win that title - but this book was helpful and worth having, particularly when one is stumbling into the car and trying to make some sense out of what one really WANTS to accomplish in a day's touring when one keeps getting sidetracked by interesting graveyards and undiscovered, delightful garden labyrinths. I used this book in some way every day or so during a 14 day Ireland vacation.

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Summary: Take this book with you
Review: I have purchased several different travel books for Ireland and this is by far the best. All of the trips outlined cover places well worth seeing and the tips are excellent. It is also very easy to take one of Pat's outlined trips and create your own mini-versions based on your interests.

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Summary: Take this book with you
Review: I have purchased several different travel books for Ireland and this is by far the best. All of the trips outlined cover places well worth seeing and the tips are excellent. It is also very easy to take one of Pat's outlined trips and create your own mini-versions based on your interests.

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Summary: best by far !!!
Review: If you can only get one travel book of Ireland to plan a trip, get this one. It contains not only the day trips with complete and thorough directions for most of Ireland's highlights, but has unique information lacking in most other guide books - like hours of operation and cost. We were actually able to plan our budget better since ALL costs could be estimated reliably. Used with Lonely Planet (my second choice of books) which has more lower-end lodging recommendations, I could plan a great low cost trip!