You can save a pile o' green if you can get a group of eight people together to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland this March. Country Cottages has worked out a price of $699 per person, with eight in a group, for seven nights on the Emerald Island, including a four-bedroom cottage, a rental car with unlimited mileage and roundtrip British Airways flights from the U.S. The package runs from March 14 to 22, 2003.
Departures at that price are out of New York, Newark or Boston. Air add-ons are available from 18 other U.S. gateways: $110 from Chicago, $200 from west coast cities and $150 from Miami. You fly to Dublin via London, but roundtrip air connections between London and Shannon or Cork (instead of Dublin) can be arranged at a supplement of only $25.
What if you just don't have that many friends or can't roundup the troops? Then consider being part of a six-person group, sharing a three-bedroom cottage at $769 per person. If you want to make it just four persons, the cost is $789 each and you get a two-bedroom cottage. You want to travel with just one other person? Okay, the price is $799 per person and you will be in a one-bedroom cottage. For each additional person, the price is $799, for infants under two, only $99. Rates include the onerous VAT (Value Added Tax).
You can also stopover in Dublin at $79 per person per night, and/or London, where the price is $219 per person for two nights/three days.
The cottages come with modern baths and kitchens, linens, cooking utensils, tableware, dishes and cutlery, with a caretaker accessible for any information or assistance needed.
Contact Country Cottages at 800/674-8883 or 561/988-4000, fax 561/988-0016, e-mail cntrycot@bellsouth.net, Web site www.villacentral.com.
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