Michael Kelly
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I'm based in
Ennis
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My name is Michael Kelly, I have worked for over 34 years in the travel industry, and I am hugely passionate about the business.
I specialise in Honeymoons, family holidays, Mediterranean & Caribbean and River Cruises, and I can tailor-made bespoke luxury and long-haul holidays. I also specialise in luxury mobile home holidays to France, Spain, Italy and Croatia. Personally, I would welcome the opportunity to arrange your holiday, so that it is a memorable trip. I am proud to offer a high level of customer service and commit to sharing my knowledge and expertise with you right throughout the booking process and beyond. I would be delighted to arrange whatever trips you have in mind from a special relaxing cruise holiday, a honeymoon, family sun holiday or luxury mobile home camping holiday to France, Spain, Italy or Croatia, a Ski or sun holiday, city breaks and if you need to book flights on their own for business or to visit friends and family, I am happy to discuss your requirements and provide you with a quote and process your booking.
During my career in the travel business, I have had the opportunity to travel to many parts of the world, including Europe (cities, sun, and ski resorts), USA, Canada, South Africa and KwaZulu Natal, North Africa, Maldives, Vietnam, Qatar, Hawaii, Thailand, and I have been lucky enough to experience various Cruise lines. This has helped me increase my knowledge so I can offer my customers first-hand experience of all the places I visited, far and wide. South Africa is my favorite holiday destination and I have been there twice on holidays, to experience this fantastic country and thoroughly enjoyed it all, including safaris.
Travel Counsellors are licensed and bonded here in Ireland by Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), so your money is completely safe. As a professional Travel Counsellor, I am available at a time that best suits your needs. I am always there for my clients right throughout the booking process before you travel, and this continues after you get back home. I am proud to give excellent customer service to all my clients and I very much value the opportunity to speak to you and share my destination knowledge with you so that you can get the best out of your trip.
We also have Travel Counsellors for Business, the corporate arm of our business, and I work with many people who travel for business. Please feel free to get in touch with me if I can help you to manage your corporate travel portfolio.
If you would prefer a face-to-face meeting rather than communicating by e-mail or over the phone that can also be arranged, and I would also be happy to meet you at a time that suits you and together we can plan your dream holiday.
Feel free to contact me to discuss your next trip on 065 6823771 or 086 3104022 or send me an email michael.kelly@travelcounsellors.com
My business is built on personal recommendations and referrals so if you are happy with the service you receive from me, I would be delighted if you would share my details with your friends, family and colleagues.
I very much look forward to hearing from you.
South Africa / Garden Route / Eastern Cape Safari – December.
I had the pleasure of going to South Africa on a familiarisation trip and spent time in Capetown, visited the winelands outside of Capetown.
12 May 2026 5 min read
NCL Prima - Minicruise
I had the pleasure of being on board the brand new NCL prima for a mini cruise from Amsterdam via Le Havre back to Southampton in England for few nights in September 2022. I must say NCL are an amazing 4 star top of the range cruise liner and their offerings for cruises is just great. They offer NCL Free at sea packages to include your drinks packages, internet connectivity while on board etc a
08 Dec 2024 5 min read
Disneyland Paris
I spent two days in Disneyland Paris from 26th November 2023 to 28th November 2023 and I explored the theme park and all its hotels. There is a huge range of hotels to choose from. Our party stayed at the Marvel New York hotel which is a really modern 4 star hotel. My next favorite is the Sequoia Lodge hotel, its a real homely hotel and nice swimming pool to relax in between the busy time at t
08 Dec 2024 5 min read
Maldives & Dubai trip
I had the pleasure of travelling to Dubai and Maldives with Emirates airlines and experienced a 1 night stop in Dubai on route to the Maldives for 4 nights stay at Jumneirah Olhahali Island Maldives in a water villa. We flew emirates airlines from Dublin to Dubai, in flight service and food and drinks was amazing on board. They are a really top class airline to fly with. It is the largest airli
08 Dec 2024 5 min read
Gold Conference Travel Counsellors
I attended our Gold Travel Counsellors conference in Doha from 19th September to 24th September inclusive. We flew from Dublin with Qatar airlines, I must say I was very impressed by Qatar airlines, they are a really amazing 5 star airline. Qatar Airways has been voted the World’s Best Airline at the 2024 World Airline Awards, the eighth time that the airline has scooped the Airline of the Year t
18 Nov 2024 5 min read
Rivercruise conference Amsterdam
The popularity of river cruising is booming. Having cruised on larger cruise ships myself, the opportunity to experience a river cruise ship first hand was a very welcome opportunity for me. I was invited to attend the CLIA River Cruise conference in Amsterdam on 11th March 2024 to learn and expand my knowledge of what exactly is a river cruise and to experience the dynamics of these smaller, mor
13 May 2024 5 min read
Nashville - home of country Music
I had the pleasure of visiting Nashville which gave me a great insight of all the wonderful attractions that Nashville, Tennessee has to offer. Broadway in downtown Nashville has live music playing each day in all the bars and venues from 11am to 3am (15 hours per day) if one has the energy to stay going. It is an amazing experience for music lovers with all the live gigs there is to see. It is
14 Jun 2023 5 min read
Luxury camping holiday in Playa Montroig Cambrils.
I had the pleasure of spending 7 nights with my sister and my nephews and nieces at the 5-star camping Playa Montroig Campsite on the outskirts of Cambrils Spain for a week from the 27th of April 2019. We flew from Shannon to Reus which was very convenient. We then took a taxi transfer for the 15-minute journey from Reus airport to Playa Montroig. The campsite is definitely a 5-star campsite and
02 Nov 2022 5 min read
Family fun in magical Lapland
I had the pleasure of treating my 4 nieces and nephews to a magical trip to Lapland for 2 nights / 3 days on 3rd December 2019. The trip started off with an early morning Aer Lingus charter flight from Dublin to Rovaniemi airport in Lapland, the official airport of Santa Claus. The flight was fun packed, we got a light breakfast on board and the elves on board the flight kept the children entertai
18 Aug 2022 5 min read
Camino de Santiago
I had the pleasure of travelling with some friends to Bilbao in Spain on 15th November 2019 to do part of the Camino de Santiago walk or the way of St James from Pamplona to Burgos over 5 days. We spent 7 days overall in Spain. We flew with Aer Lingus from Dublin to Bilbao. We were extremely lucky as the weather was mild each day, we just experienced some rain and snow on our last day of walking.
18 Aug 2022 5 min read
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