At Dublin Tour Guide, we focus on personality over experience.
Our guiding experience can be acquired through training, but personality fit for Dublin Tour Guide is grown through years of personal development. The most important aspect of Dublin Tour Guide is finding guides that share the same ethos our company was founded on – wanting to give people the greatest tour experience they’ve ever had.
Our Guides
Dublin Tour Guide offers the highest quality tours of Dublin.
We specialise in private walking tours for discerning travellers
The reason why people say (about our Nearly All of Dublin in 5 hours tour) that “5 hours just flies by” is because we know how to keep you energised and engaged throughout your tour, regardless of how long it is. Our tours normally involve strategically placed breaks so that you (and the guide) can re-charge. Most significantly, because of our understanding of energy cycles, our tours are perfect to shake off jet lag. So if you’re scheduled to arrive into Dublin after a red-eye flight, don’t let your first day in Ireland be a write-off. A tour is just the medicine to cure your jet-lag.
2. Passion
The reason why our guides become tour guides is because they are passionate and fascinated by Irish culture and history and have studied it extensively. The reason why they stay tour guides is because they love making a connection with the great people they meet and they become dedicated to our mission of striving to make the experience the best tour you’ll ever have!
3. Enthusiasm
There’s nothing more disappointing than getting excited about exploring a city only for the guide to start reciting information as if they say the same thing every day. Our guides do a different tour every single time because we customise the tour for you, e.g. starting at your hotel lobby. So they remain passionate about communicating the information. The guides are also naturally extroverted so they become energised by talking to people.
4. Personality
Nobody wants to experience the vibrancy and multifaceted culture of a city with someone who has the personality of a history book. All of our guides have great personalities….
Although we can do tours for academics, our approach to doing tours is that personality and intelligence of the guide should be at the forefront.
Book your private tour of Dublin
Designed according to your needs, our tours are aimed at providing a private Dublin experience to you and your travel companions.
I asked each of the children what was their favorite part of the week in Ireland and one quickly responded it was the walking tour in Dublin with Carl! I could not recommend this tour enough!!!
Don’t just take our word for it. Read our reviews below.
Best Walking Tour in Years
Prior to this tour, I had all but given up on walking tours—I’ve just been disappointed so many times by walking tours that lacked historical depth and nuance. This tour restored my faith in them. Garvan fully delivered on a superb overview of Irish history (such as one can learn it in the course of ~4 hours), replete with historical detail and nuance, and his enthusiasm for the subject matter and love of Ireland is contagious. 10/10 would recommend.
Guide770806
January 10, 2022.
Very pleasant and informative Guide
If you are really interested in Dublin and the real history of Ireland then this is what you want. Our guide John was not only professional, but a fine example of what’s great about Ireland- pride in country. We obtained a respect and deep understanding of all the aspects of present day Ireland and also ancient history. A lot to digest but he was clear and concise and being from Dublin helped.
Tom and Renee Lanier
December 16, 2021.
Super Fun Pub Tour
We had a wonderful evening with Carl exploring the pubs of Dublin. Carl was friendly, knowledgeable and helped us begin our visit to Ireland with great fun. We highly recommend Carl!
Sdemarest1
December 15, 2021.
Perfect Tour
Taking a walking tour of Dublin with John was an absolute pleasure. He has the most amusing way of sharing his wealth of knowledge. History becomes more than a story on paper and his quirky details about some of history’s most well known characters round out the experience.
Wayne & Karen
November 29, 2021.
A fantastic tour of Dublin with Cathal.
A fantastic tour of Dublin with Cathal.
We had some important visitors over from Germany on business and we had a wonderful few hours walking around Dublin on this excellent tour.
Highly recommended.
Gerard.
G K
November 15, 2021.
Incredible private tour with John!
This was the BEST tour we have ever had! Our guide, John C, made our entire trip to Dublin! We have traveled the world and have gone on so many private tours and this one took the cake! John is a historian with such a lively way to share his wealth of information. His stories made history come alive. We are still giggling over some of his stories and the memories will last us a lifetime. He is simply the best.
cindy w
November 12, 2021.
The Tour that Doesn't Make You Feel Like a Tourist
My wife and I recently relocated to Dublin, and we wanted to get our bearings and learn about our new home. So during October break we jumped on the DART with our two, somewhat reluctant teenagers and met Garvan in the City Center for a three-hour walking tour. What a great experience! Garvan is amazing. He is a knowledgable, passionate, and gifted storyteller who brought Dublin's history to life for us. What's more he won over our kids by engaging them directly and treating them like adults. By the time the tour was over we felt more at home in our adopted city, and we felt like we had made a friend. We would highly recommend the experience to anyone who wants the immersive experience of a tour without the large group dynamic.It was a great way to spend the day.
Craig J
November 7, 2021.
Excellent and lively Dublin walking tour
Our guide, Carl, really made our experience of Dublin come alive; he was incredibly well informed and passionate regarding the history of Ireland. Carl was also very flexible on the day of our tour - he did a bit of mix and match, according to what we were especially interested to see/hear about.
Jennie S
November 1, 2021.
Excellent trip around Dublin
Our guide John Caffrey was a complete wealth of knowledge, all explained with great enthusiasm and humour. Our tour not only took in the great city of Dublin, it's history, both ancient and more recent but also brought clarity to some of the English language's popular expressions as well as important historic events that shaped the city and country.
The tour was very complete and I would not hesitate this guide. He will be part of your positive experience of Dublin.
Steve G
Steve G
October 24, 2021.
Great way to get a first impression of Dublin
My sister and I had a wonderful time exploring Dublin for the first time with our excellent guide John Caffrey. He is passionate about the city and has a vast knowledge of the history, (fun) facts and anecdotes that are part of Dublin.
We learned a lot and recommend everyone to book this tour.
He told everything with so much enthusiasm, even the rain didn’t bother us.
evelinev86
October 20, 2021.
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