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Great organized trip with great tour leader and driver.

Excellent knitting workshops. Beautiful scenery. Great guide, Kirstie.

I would recommend knittingtours.com with no reservations! My recent trip on the Shetland tour was excellent. Very well organized with each days schedule made clear the evening before and photographed. The hotel in Shetland was clean but dated. But not many places on the island can accommodate a large group. The food was excellent including local meat and produce. The classes were excellent and I learned things that will change my knitting going forward for the better. I couldn't have asked for a better, smoother experience. Memories for a lifetime! Our guide Kirsty was a delight. Knitter and history teacher!

The trip was amazing. The tour guide was a fountain of knowledge about Ireland. The coach driver was also amazing. Most of the accommodation was very good, the workshops we did were very informative. I would definitely do another and recommend these trip to others.

This tour was wonderful. Jane, our tour guide, made sure that we were well taken care of and we learned a lot about Ireland as she shared with us on some of the longer coach rides.
Noel, our driver, managed to ease that coach through some very tight places. He was always upbeat and cheerful when we were around.
Edel MacBride is one of my favorite people. Even if you weren't a knitter, she kept you entertained with her stories and experiences. Her husband Peter, is a lovely person and kept the yarn flowing!
All of the people in the shops and studios were friendly and entertaining. I loved them all.
The hotels were lovely and I felt totally pampered. I carry a picture of my sister with me when she can't actually come in person. I put the picture up somewhere at each venue. Then I photograph it and text it to her. When I returned home, I realized I had left it behind. I emailed the Killeavy Castle Estate hotel and they had found it! They mailed it right out to me!
I loved all the sites we visited. I'm a country girl, so I couldn't really appreciate the wonders of Dublin. It was so busy, I was quite intimidated. So I'm really glad Jane and Noel were there.
As for the food, it was wonderful. I was the only vegetarian, but every place we dined at had options that I could eat. In fact, I ate a little too well. I'm still trying to take of the four pounds I gained. The only thing I might like to have seen, and this is not a criticism, would be an option for a salad. But, I was fully satisfied!!
I had a wonderful time and will always remember one tour guide's comment which was repeated over and over: Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!

All arrangements went as planned and very smoothly. I especially enjoyed learning about Irish history from our guide as we drove to the various experiences.

We had a fantastic time on our Knitting Tours South of Ireland trip (Dublin, Galway, Aran Islands, Killarney). We loved every minute of it. Tour guide Anne Marie, along with driver Paddy were so informative, and entertaining (and hilarious)! From start to finish, we were very well taken care of!! We were satisfied with the accommodations (eg. Camden Court Hotel in Dublin is a perfect location for getting around Dublin, and The Lake Hotel in Killarney is located in a peaceful, picturesque setting). Our breakfasts, and meals were splendid! We enjoyed the early starts for our day trips, which helped avoid crowds. Eg.The Cliffs of Moher are spectacular! The knitting workshops were informative, and especially loved the Carol Feller workshop!!!

Note to non-knitters (husbands, friends etc). Husband Steve thoroughly enjoyed himself. During knitting workshops there’s plenty of things to do and visit!! So do not hesitate!

I am already making plans for Knitting Tours (Barcelona '25), - and either Knitting Tours Ireland Part 2 or Scotland springtime of '26

Laura & Steve Myers - Ottawa, Ontario Canada

This tour was very well organized, with lovely lodgings and an outstanding guide and driver. I was very impressed with how the team navigated around unexpected circumstances. When my scheduled flight was changed, they arranged for the driver to transport me directly to the group activity so I didn’t miss anything. Weather prevented us from going to the Aran Islands, but they arranged super alternate activities. I was so impressed by their service that I have already booked another knitting tour with this company to visit Scotland.

Barcelona, November 2023. Easy to book. Excellent communication. Luxury transportation and hotels. Full itinerary. Friendly, helpful, professional and responsive tour guides. Everything one could want in a tour!

This was Knitting Tours first trip to Barcelona, and mine, and it was so well organised and delivered, I had a wonderful time. The balance of knitting, sightseeing and other events was great and the hotel accommodation and staff at Hotel Seventy were all superb.
Our tour guide, Anne Marie Hayes was exceptional both in her organisational ability and knowledge.
Thoroughly recommend Knitting Tours and this trip in particular.

I think having the basics all correct is the start to a good trip. The venues were well researched, the timing from one event to another all worked. It seems like a small thing but with out the basics of the trip being correct nothing could go right. I too if a well organized and executed trip the professionalism friendliness of the Tour staff and designers made the trip extra special. This is my second trip with them and I’m already looking for the third.

I had a fantastic time on the Scottish Highlands Knitting Tour. I am an avid knitter and a yarn snob. I love fibre, starting from the sheep breeds to processing, (sheering, carding, spinning, dying, etc), to finished products. I also love history and the history of yarn and Scottish clothing. This tour was fantastic in that we went to historic places, we met designers, historians, farmers and artists. We went to shops and villages. My need for information was met. I had lots of time to knit. I met interesting people. I am a retired professional and most people were also retired professionals.
The tour guide was really fantastic and our coach driver was also awesome. They had to maneuver us through some very rough weather, and had to shift around workshops and presenters who couldn’t get to us due to road closures. We were safe, well taken care of, and had options available when weather was really miserable. It was great.

I enjoyed the variety of experiences from shops to farms to museums and must-see tourist destinations as well as off the main road drives. I’m very disappointed I missed the announcement that we were swimming at the Aran Islands. My only regret.
Also, there is no better tour leader than AnnMarie. She and David Martin were the best!

My second review. This was an exceptional tour from beginning to end! Detailed descriptions, clear itinerary, specific accommodations, amazing & talented instructors were all carefully planned. There was a comfort built into the tour because of the professional planning. There was always someone to answer any concerns or questions without delay. Our tour guide & driver were so wonderful! They were knowledgeable, prepared, warm & personable & an important part of the success of our experience. It was just so much fun & I would absolutely recommend this trip & am most likely to take another.

This was the second tour I have done with Knitting Tours, and it was fabulous! The venue (Parknasilla Resort) lives up to the hype on their website. I didn’t try the swimming, spa or gym, but the walking trails are well maintained and the trails along the ocean offer great views.
The only hiccup was the cancellation of a sightseeing drive along the Ring of Kerry - but there was a good reason. A nasty piece of weather named Agnes! But the group managed to have the resort start a fire for us and we received hot chocolate or Irish coffee which we enjoyed along with some extra time with our instructor! An alternate tour was arranged, but knitters can be an ornery group! We requested a speedy return to Dublin instead so we could get to the delightful knitting store “This Is Knit” and they graciously obliged.
All in all, a spectacular experience!

Well managed trip. Workshops were excellent as well as accommodations. Would highly recommend Knitting Tours.

I recently returned from the Scotland/Shetland Knitting Tour and had an absolutely wonderful time. The trip was very well organized and the fabulous, knowledgeable, funny, Scottish guide Kirsty was able to flexibly time manage and manoeuvre us through all manner of textile and historic sites with ease. To be immersed in the world of Shetland knitting was so inspiring. Not only did I learn lots from these Shetland teachers, but my fellow tour mates were equally inspiring with their beautiful knits. This tour exceeded my expectations and for anyone who has a passion for knitting and all things textile I know they’d love this tour as much as I did.

My husband gave me the Best of Shetland Islands and Scotland knitting tour for a birthday gift. It was an amazing tour for both of us!
As a non knitter there were lots of interesting things for him to see and do. As an avid knitter, I loved the experience of taking classes from the best in Shetland. We had a wonderful lace class with Elizabeth Johnson and fair isle yoke class with Hazel Tindale. Not only were these women so kind, approachable and eager to share their expertise, they shared their lives through stories of their childhood and culture.
The tour guide, Kirsty was delightful. She had a lovely sense of humor and gave us lots of helpful information re history and practicalities of Scottish culture. Our tour bus driver, Colin was very helpful and courteous. He went the extra mile and helped my husband make the ferry when he had to leave 2 days early.
I had never been on a knitting tour before and I found the others in the group were very welcoming and inclusive. I would book another tour with knitting.com in a heartbeat!

What a great trip! The country is gorgeous. The tour accommodations were wonderful! The tour guide and coach drivers were amazing! The workshops were fun and informative!

This is the fourth Knitting Tours trip I have taken. This tour met the expectations set be the previous three. Tour guide June was knowledgeable and a pleasure to be around; the couch drivers Jim and Graeme were experts at navigating the narrow streets and tight parking lots, all with a great sense of humor. The tour itself was a good mix of history and sharing the knowledge of expert instructors. The food in the hotels and the various lunch stops was mostly excellent--if there's a criticism, it's that the portions were large, with wonderful desserts!
I think we would have liked more opportunities to visit yarn shops. We had a few really good ones, but I don't think there could ever be too many opportunities!
Overall it was a delightful, informative experience.