Guides · 21 written so far
Straight answers.
What things cost, how long the journeys take, how to check an operator is legal, and how to plan group travel without the headaches. Written from the roads we drive every week.
019 guides
Airports and transfers
Shannon, Dublin and the routes people ask about most: times, costs and what to tell your driver.
- 8 min read
What Does a Chauffeur Cost in Ireland?
Say you land at Shannon with your partner and two suitcases and need to be in Killarney by mid-afternoon. One Irish operator publishes €270 for that run, another starts at €405, and the taxi desk says it depends on the meter. They are pricing different cars and different inclusions.
- 4 min read
Shannon Airport to Adare Manor: Transfer Options, Times and Costs
Your flight lands at Shannon at 7.05am after an overnight from New York. Check-in at Adare Manor is hours away, you have been awake since somewhere over Newfoundland, and the last thing you want to work out is Irish car hire paperwork.
- 2 min read
Shannon Airport to Dromoland Castle: The 15-Minute Transfer
Dromoland Castle is so close to Shannon Airport that some guests wonder whether a transfer is worth booking at all. It is about fifteen minutes by road. Surely you can just grab a taxi?
- 3 min read
Shannon Airport to Doonbeg: Transfer Times and Options
Your flight lands at Shannon at 7.20am. Your first tee time at Doonbeg is the following morning, but you want to be at the hotel, unpacked and looking at the Atlantic by lunchtime, not studying road signs for Kilrush after a night in the air.
- 7 min read
Shannon Airport to Lahinch: Getting to the Links, the Village and Doolin
Say your overnight flight from Boston touches down at Shannon at 7am, the golf bags come through, and you have a tee time at Lahinch that afternoon. The drive itself is short and easy. What takes thought is how you get there with clubs and luggage, and how much golf you can sensibly play on no sleep.
- 7 min read
Shannon Airport to the Cliffs of Moher, and a Day Out Through the Burren
Say you land at Shannon in the morning and you are sleeping in Galway that night. The direct drive is about an hour, but the Cliffs of Moher are only a little off the way, and with a few extra hours you can add Lahinch, Doolin and the Burren. The question is how: coach tour, hire car or a driver.
- 8 min read
Shannon Airport to Galway and Connemara: Options, Times and Costs
Say your flight lands at Shannon at 6.30am and you are staying in Galway city, or further on in Connemara. You have four real choices: the direct bus, a taxi, a hire car or a private transfer. Each suits a different traveller, and the bus is better than most people expect.
- 8 min read
Shannon Airport to Killarney, Kenmare and the Ring of Kerry
Say your flight lands at Shannon at 7am and your hotel is in Killarney, or further on in Kenmare or out on the Ring of Kerry. Kerry looks close on the map, but there is no direct bus or train from the airport, and the drive is long enough to matter after a night flight.
- 8 min read
Dublin Airport to Adare and Limerick: Coach, Rail, Car or Transfer
Plenty of people heading for Adare or Limerick fly into Dublin rather than Shannon, because the fare is lower, the flight is direct or their airline simply does not fly to Shannon. That can be the right call, as long as you know what comes after landing: a drive of more than 200km across the country.
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Golf and the Ryder Cup
A week of links golf in the South West, and getting to Adare in September 2027.
- 3 min read
Planning a Golf Tour of Southwest Ireland: Transport, Itinerary and Costs
Picture eight golfers, thirty-two bags between them once you count clubs, shoes and luggage, and a 7.40am tee time at Lahinch. Now picture that group split across two hire cars, one of which took a wrong turn outside Ennistymon.
- 8 min read
Transport for a Kerry Golf Trip: Driving Times, Order of Play and Clubs
Say there are four of you with five days, a list that reads Ballybunion, Tralee, Killarney, Dooks and Waterville, and flights in and out of Shannon. The golf is the easy part to book. The hard part is the order you play in, because the Kerry links sit at both ends of a county where most roads are slower than the map suggests.
- 4 min read
Ryder Cup 2027 at Adare Manor: Getting There Without the Headache
In September 2027, the Ryder Cup comes to Adare Manor in County Limerick. It will be the biggest sporting event Ireland has hosted in years, with tens of thousands of spectators expected each day in a village of a few thousand people.
- 3 min read
Ryder Cup 2027: Where to Stay and How to Get to Adare Each Day
You have your Ryder Cup tickets for September 2027. Now comes the harder question: where do you actually stay, and how do you get to Adare Manor every morning when tens of thousands of other people are trying to do the same thing?
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Weddings and celebrations
The couple, the family and the guests, from the church to the reception and home safe afterwards.
- 4 min read
How to Organise Wedding Guest Transport in Ireland
Picture the scene. The ceremony finished twenty minutes ago at a church outside Adare, sixty guests are milling around in their good shoes, and the reception is a forty-minute drive away in Dromoland. Who is moving all these people, and how?
- 8 min read
Wedding Transport for Limerick and Clare Venues: Drive Times and Planning
Say the ceremony is in Adare at 2pm, half your guests are staying in Limerick city, and your aunt's flight from Boston lands at Shannon that morning. Each journey needs a plan, and the plan depends on the venue. Below are seven well-known Limerick and Clare venues: drive times, what each venue's own site says, and where transport matters.
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Clubs and groups
Clubs, teams and group days out: what a minibus costs and how to check an operator is legal.
- 4 min read
How Much Does Minibus Hire Cost in Ireland?
You need to move fourteen people from Limerick to a wedding in Clare, and the first three quotes you got back are all wildly different. One operator wants nearly double what another does, and the third never replied at all.
- 4 min read
Is Your Bus Operator Legal? How to Check Before You Book
The quote was well below everyone else's. The bus that arrived had a cracked windscreen, no seatbelts in the back three rows, and a driver who could not say who insured the vehicle. This happens in Ireland more often than most people realise, and the passengers usually only find out when something goes wrong.
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Business and events
Staff transport, visiting executives, crews and productions.
- 7 min read
Transport for Business Visitors to Limerick and the Mid-West
Say an audit team of four lands at Shannon on the morning flight from New York. They have two days to cover a plant in Raheen, an office at the National Technology Park in Castletroy and a supplier in Ennis, and someone in your office has to make all of that run to time without a rental car or a pile of taxi receipts.
- 4 min read
Staff and Client Transport for Midwest Companies: Why Contracts Beat Taxis
It is 5.50am in Raheen. The early shift starts at six, four taxis were booked the night before, and two have arrived. This scene plays out at business parks across Limerick and Shannon every week, and it costs companies more than they realise.
- 4 min read
Transport for Events, Festivals and Film Productions in Ireland
A location manager rings at 9pm. The unit base has moved 20km because of flooding, forty crew need to be on set at 6.30am, and the transport plan written three weeks ago is now waste paper. What happens next depends entirely on which operator she booked.