Travel digest with Barry Coughlan
Prices are from €7000, travel originates in the UK but add-on prices are available from Ireland.
Visit www.explore.co.uk or call 01252 884 723.
Hidden Dublin Tours has launched a new Dublin tour based on the famine.
Passengers are invited to journey through Ireland in those dark years as actors weave together a moving and enlightening journey on board a custom designed bus dressed as a famine ship.
The tour is now available to the public and runs daily at 11.15am and 2.15pm from College Green, Dublin 2.
www.fleeingthefamine.ie
Click and Go offers a five-star stay on the island of Phuket from €999 based on two adults sharing for travel in October.
The hotel is the Serenity Resort and Residences and the nine-night deal is on a bed and breakfast basis. Check in bags and transfers are included.
Visit www.clickandgo.com or call 01 539 7777.
Hear the word Jamaica and you’re likely to picture white beaches, spicy jerk chicken and a certain Bob Marley.
And you’d be spot on – the Caribbean clichés come thick and fast on this laid-back island.
Thompson has a June 8 deal from Dublin to Montego Bay and 14 nights in the Clubhotel RIU, Ocho Rios with prices from €1,559.
www.thomsonholidays.ie
Topflight has released a first ever Escorted Tours brochure.
Packed with new tour itineraries throughout a host of European and worldwide destinations, Topflight’s programme is geared to a variety of travellers, short, medium and long-haul holidays-seekers.
Destinations include Italy, Austria, Madeira, USA, Canada, Cuba, South Africa and Thailand.
Call Topflight on 01 240 1700, see www.topflight.ie or visit any local travel agent.

