Discover the Secrets of Ireland’s Oldest City Ranked by The New York Times as a top destination for 2024, County Waterford invites you to uncover its rich history and stunning heritage. Experience multi-award-winning museums that narrate a 1,100-year-old saga of Viking invasion and settlement. Explore the Victorian-era Bishop’s Palace, climb 9th-century Viking towers, and uncover medieval treasures—all in one remarkable day. With the Freedom of Waterford Pass included, enjoy a guided walking tour revealing 1,000 years of history in 1,000 steps. Your Tour pass grants access to:
The Medieval Museum
Bishop’s Palace
The Irish Museum of Time
The Irish Silver Museum
Guided Walk of the Viking Triangle
Starting & ending in Dublin, this 8-hour tour offers an immersive journey through Waterford’s ancient and captivating past. The tour duration is approximately 9 hours. We offer a coordinated hotel pick-up for your convenience. Please email us your pick-up location details.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ On-board WiFi
✔ Bottled water
✔ Parking Fees, Taxes & Tolls
✔ In-vehicle air conditioning
✔ Chauffeur Guide & Vehicle
✖ Lunch & Waterford Experience Tickets.
✖ Gratuities not included and gratefully accepted. We recommend 15%
Pickup Locations
1. The Morgan Hotel
2. The Kingfisher Guesthouse
3. Judge Darley's Hotel
4. Old Dubliner Bed and Breakfast
5. Latchfords Townhouse Of Baggot Street
6. Hotel St. George
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8. River House Hotel
9. Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge
10. The Hendrick Smithfield
11. Trinity College Summer Accommodation
12. West County Hotel
13. Gardiner Lodge
14. Temple Bar Hotel
15. The Westbury
16. The Central Hotel
17. Hilton Garden Inn Dublin City Centre
18. Beresford Hotel
19. The Grafton Hotel
20. My Place
Additional Info: Pick up at the reception of your hotel or your provided location in Dublin City. The tour is regarded as a no-show if you are not at the pick up location at the departure time. No refund is offered in this case.
Itinerary
1
Dublin
Pick up
Duration: 5 minutes
2
The Viking Triangle
Epic Walking Tour - Guided Tour times: 12pm, 2pm and 4pm daily) / Self Guided. Anytime.
Take the award-winning Epic Walking Tour of the Viking Triangle to explore Waterford - Ireland’s oldest city.
In less than an hour you will experience a thousand years of history in a thousand paces on this interactive guided tour.
This tour will take you past five national monuments: Reginald’s Tower, Greyfriars Church, Choristers Hall, the Mayor’s Wine Vault and the Bishop’s Palace. As part of the tour, you can enjoy access to Christ Church Cathedral.
Duration: 60 minutes
3
Waterford Treasures: Medieval Museum
Guided Tour.: Join the guided Tour available on the hour, Every Hour Or Self Guided Any time. Visit The Medieval Waterford Ireland’s only purpose-built medieval museum and the only building on the island to incorporate two medieval chambers, the 13th-century Choristers’ Hall and the 15th-century Mayor’s Wine Vault..
Step back into Medieval Waterford as you begin your tour in the 13th-century Choristers Hall and 15th Century Wine vault where you are sure to be wowed by some of the greatest Treasures of Medieval Ireland, including the Great Charter Roll viewed by HM King Charles III and the Queen Consort and the magnificent 15th-century cloth-of-gold church vestments.
Duration: 60 minutes
4
Waterford
Lunch Stop.
Duration: 45 minutes
5
Irish Museum Of Time
Self Guided - IRELAND'S ONLY HOROLOGICAL MUSEUM
Ireland’s National Homological Museum features the oldest Irish-made grandfather clocks, table clocks and watches in the world and celebrates the incredible skills of the virtuoso craftsmen who, since the seventeenth century, created timepieces of remarkable beauty and technological genius.
Duration: 30 minutes
6
Waterford Treasures: Bishop's Palace
Self Guided. Optional when Time permitting.
Tour through the treasures and scandals of 18th century, explore the beginnings of glass making in Waterford, 4D Audio Visual Experience. The Palace in Cathedral Square was conserved in 2010, see the treasures of Georgian and Victorian Waterford. This exquisite architectural jewel, now a museum, continues to delight over 250 years later, the ground and first floors furnished as a very elegant 18th-century townhouse, with some of the finest displays in Ireland of 18th-century glass, silver, furniture and paintings. The oldest piece of Waterford Glass in the world – the Penrose decanter – is a highlight.
The top floor continues the story up to 1970 ending with the Hucklebuck shoes. Galleries cover the historic suburb of Ballybricken, the heartland of John Redmond’s support, the struggle for Irish independence and the early Irish State, the First World War, through the 1940s and 1950s, the Showband years and Waterford Sporting Heroes.
Duration: 30 minutes
7
Dublin
Return to Dublin
Duration: 2 hours
Additional info
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
