Cliffs of Moher tours from Dublin are full-day coach trips across the width of Ireland, boarding in the city centre before seven in the morning and returning in the evening. Every day trip here carries the cliff-top admission inside the fare, and what separates them is how long you get up there and which second town comes with it.
Two hours on the cliff top and two in Galway with a guided city walk, and every entrance fee on the route inside the fare. Thirteen hours from O'Connell Street or College Green, and suitcases travel free if you are moving on rather than coming back.
From $88 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A minimum two-hour cliff-top stay written into the fare itself, with the Visitor Experience admission paid, which is unusually specific for a coach day. Twelve and a half hours out of Parnell Square, plus the Burren and ninety minutes in Galway.
From $91 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
An hour and three-quarters on the cliff top with the admission paid, then ninety minutes in Ennis and nearly two in Limerick, each with an optional free walking tour. Twelve and a half hours from Temple Bar, and there is no bathroom on board.
From $82 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours at the cliffs with the Atlantic Edge exhibition in the fare, an hour and a half of the Burren by road, and two hours in Galway with live Irish music at the end. Thirteen hours from College Green, finishing on D'Olier Street.
From $86 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours on the cliff top with Visitor Experience entry paid, a dedicated guide and a separate driver, and extended time in Galway with a short orientation walk. Thirteen hours, and more travellers have rated this day than any other on this coast.
From $81 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private car from your Dublin hotel or Airbnb, running eight to twelve hours depending on what you want from it, with ninety minutes at the cliffs and stops at Caherconnell and the Burren. One fare covers two travellers rather than the car.
From $1,532 per group, up to 2
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The only tour here that states its vehicle is wheelchair accessible, and the only one offering a Spanish-speaking guide. Collection anywhere in Dublin you ask, ninety minutes at the cliffs, and Visitor Centre entry explicitly excluded. One fare covers two travellers.
From $1,591 per group, up to 2
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three days out of Nassau Street with two nights of en-suite accommodation and breakfast in the price, in a mini-coach capped at fifteen. An hour at the cliffs on day one with the ticket reserved, then Kylemore and Connemara. Cancellation needs twenty-one days.
From $1,008 per person
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Five days across Clare, Kerry and Cork with four nights of en-suite accommodation and breakfast included, in a Mercedes mini-coach capped at fifteen. Ninety minutes at the cliffs with the ticket reserved in your name. Cancellation needs twenty-one days.
From $1,516 per person
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Four days by train and coach out of Dublin Heuston, with reserved rail seats and three nights with full Irish breakfast in the price. Two hours at the cliffs, plus Blarney, Cobh and the Ring of Kerry. Cancellation needs six days, not twenty-four hours.
From $1,558 per person
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There is no train to the cliffs, so the coach is the transport rather than the luxury. Compare what each day does with its hours before you pick one.
Compare every Cliffs of Moher tourA coach across the width of Ireland and back. Boarding is in the city centre between a quarter to seven and five to seven in the morning, and you are back in the evening. Twelve and a half to thirteen hours, of which roughly six are on the road.
There is no railway station at the cliffs and no line near them. The coach is not a convenience here; it is the transport. What the better days do with the distance is turn the return leg into a second destination rather than a drive home.
This is the safest group in the whole catalogue for it. One names entrance fees to all attractions. Another writes the Visitor Experience and a minimum two-hour stay into the same line. The rest name it explicitly.
Three hours each way, the last of it on narrow Clare roads. Travellers say plainly that handing the driving over was the point.
Galway with a guided walk on most of them, Ennis and Limerick on one. None of these days is just a cliff.
Which turns a round trip into a one-way move to Galway with the cliffs in the middle, at no extra cost.
The same cliffs, the same stop, and five hours of difference. This is the single most useful comparison anybody planning this trip can make.
| From Dublin | From Galway | |
|---|---|---|
| Day length | 12h 30m to 13h | 7h to 10h 30m |
| Boarding | 6:45am to 6:55am | 8:40am to 11:45am |
| On the cliff top | 1¾ to 2 hours | 1 to 4 hours |
| Gate ticket in the fare | On every day trip | On most of them |
| Also on the route | Galway, the Burren, Ennis or Limerick | Poulnabrone, Dunguaire, Aillwee, Doolin, Inis Oírr |
| Cheapest fare | $81 | $64 |
Read the first two rows together. You are paying roughly the same money for the same stop and five more hours of road. If you can arrange a night in Galway, everything about this trip gets shorter.
Fares start at From $81 a person. Board fifteen minutes before departure. The pick-up points are spread across the city centre and two of them are a twenty-minute walk apart, so check which one is on your confirmation the evening before.
Almost all of these refund in full up to twenty-four hours ahead. On a coast where the forecast decides the view, that is what makes a thirteen-hour commitment reasonable. The multi-day tours are the exception, needing twenty-one days or six.
Only one product in the whole catalogue states that its vehicle is wheelchair accessible, and it is a private chauffeur day from Dublin rather than a coach. The visitor information page sets out what the site itself offers.
If you are prone to motion sickness, take the winding-road warnings seriously. Five hours each way may not be the right call, and a Cliffs of Moher tour from Galway reaches the same place in ninety minutes. If you want more than two hours on the cliff top, no Dublin coach can offer it and the guided walks can. And if you are travelling with small children, the coach rather than the cliff is the problem: a shorter day out of Galway is the kinder version of the same trip.
Two hours on the cliff top, a guide the whole way and free cancellation up to twenty-four hours ahead.
Check availabilityNext: every fare on Cliffs of Moher Tours, the ticket and access detail on visiting the cliffs, and the month you are coming on the weather page.