Hello Ethel, warm greetings from Ireland. Many thanks for your kind words, highly positive review and feedback and most of all for choosing an Essential Ireland tour, it was our pleasure to welcome and host you. What are unique experience for you both to have basically a private tour of Ireland for a week, just the two of you. We are very proud of our 'never ever cancel guarantee', whether there are 2 people or 16 people that book a tour and are signed up,we will always operate the tour, even it it makes a financial loss for us. This is what sets us apart from all the big tour operators who will cancel the tour if they don't reach the minimum number of guests required to run it. Touring Ireland is our passion, it is more about our pride in our country and our culture than it is about making money and this is demonstrated by the fact that we will operate a tour with two people if necessary and only a month to go I led a 7 day tour of the wild atlantic way with just one guest aboard for a week. Some say we are crazy to have this policy but we were repaid with a glowing review and a tour-guest who will most likely travel with us again in future, so its all good :) I have been one of Ireland's leading tour guide for over 25 years and I would rather give up Guinness forever than cancel a tour departure that someone has invested their hard-earned cash into and made travel plans for. Im delighted to read you enjoyed the professionalism of Chris your guide and all his great information, history, stories and recommendations. Thank you sincerely for choosing to travel with Essential Ireland and we hope to welcome you again on our tours, perhaps next time on our 5 day tour of Northern Ireland and Donegal! Either Slainte - Good health Stephen McPhilemy Founder & Chief Tour-Guide