Ireland, cheap but clean cottages ?

[jmpuddleduck]

I would like to go to Ireland this year but have a very limited budget, would be looking for a ? cottage for 6 + a baby. Could anyone recommend anywhere please ? Also cheapest way to travel from Scotland ?

(NB Welcome are priced in £ and the Irish ones are priced in ? - makes a big difference at the moment!)

rosturra, thankyou, I will have a look.

wendyWeber, unfortunately we are back to school mid august, but we will all fit in one car, so will look at your links too, thankyou.

I can vouch that Rosturra's cottage is in a great location - I was visiting friends there last week! it's one of my favourite places in Ireland...

Favourable exchange rate, KM? When's that going to be then?

I feel like this is a really stupid question but do you need a passport to visit Ireland - i've got one but DS hasn't got one. Would I just be able to take his birth certificate for ID? Can you tell i'm not very well travelled

If you are flying I think you definitely need photo id. Think they might be a bit more lenient on the ferries -

We have used this company for 4 years in a row now and they are fairly reasonably priced and reliable - the cottages we've had have always exceeded our expectations.

if traveling from scotland do the stranrar crossing to belfast. the road to dublin pretty good now.

you could stay in the north, enniskillen is lovely. or newcastle/mountains of mourne are.

btw i am irish and live in scotland, it is cheaper to go to france, irish cottages are v. expensive.

£1 gets you just over 1.20 euros lately, KM - 1 euro costs nearly 80p - it's dire. (You should be coming over here for your hols)

DS1 is in France getting paid £70 a weeks - when he went, in December, 100 euros cost him just under a week's wage, about £67; now it's nearly £80

I hadn't thought about passports, would we need them, does anyone know for sure ?

Try ownersdirect.co.uk we have rented a cottage in Ireland off there for the past 2 years. They have been fantastic and much cheaper than going through an agency.

Ireland is a route for child-traffickers apparently, so they can get quite strict at customs. We were advised to ensure we had passports for the boys. (Ds2's has expired - costs a fortune!)

I was afraid you would say that roisin, dd1 has a passport because she is going to France with the school, but we would need to get 3 child and 1 adult passport before we start.

Hmm, that's why we have been put off going abroad, puddleduck - we would need six passports - would almost cost more than a bloody holiday

(go to Orkney instead and visit us on the way past )

just worked it out -it would cost £328 for us to get passports!!!!