The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Foynes, the bucket-list move is Foynes Flying Boat & Irish Coffee: The Original Experience. Below: 2 bucket-list things to do on a Foynes port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Step inside aviation's golden age at the world's only Flying Boat & Maritime Museum — right in the port. Then taste the very first Irish Coffee, invented here in 1943, made to the original recipe.
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Ride shotgun in a vintage Royal Enfield sidecar along the wild Shannon Estuary — a cinematic, wind-in-your-hair way to take in the landscapes of County Limerick that no coach tour can replicate.
Book itCounty Limerick: Sidecar Tour with Flying Boat Museum Tour$459 per person
A chauffeured private tour delivers you to Ireland's most dramatic coastline — 214-metre sea cliffs plunging into the Atlantic — plus the otherworldly limestone karst of The Burren, all at your own pace.
Book itPrivate Tour from Cruise Ship in Foynes to Cliffs of Moher$697 per person
Run by Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark · 4.60 from 644 reviews
Adare — just 20 minutes from Foynes — is Ireland's most photogenic village, all thatched cottages and medieval abbeys. A private guided visit to the village and the grounds of the legendary Adare Manor makes for an effortlessly elegant half-day.
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Your day in FoynesNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
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Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.