Overall, great trip.

Trip did not meet my expectations. A lot of opportunities for improvement. Itinerary was not well thought out. Uncertain why we played at North Berwick after traveling for nearly 24 hours. Getting off plane and playing 18 holes and then 36 holes the next day set everyone up for failure.. After first round did not get back to hotel until 9pm. We then had to leave by 6am next morning. Had to wake up at 5am. We were expected to pack all our things and move to another hotel as were scheduled to play 36 holes the next day. We should not have been booked at 3 hotels. I would have preferred to stay at St Andrew's and travel from there. Also did not get to play Old Course, which was huge disappointment. Our driver Gordon was a complete asshole. Our first interaction with him at airport he was scolding us for taking so long. Said it costs him money to park coach. Said "I'm losing money". Complained constantly. I wanted my clubs and travel bag. He said it was a hassle for him to unlock luggage compartment on coach. He then dumped all trash from coach in parking lot of our hotel at Pierceland. There were smashed chips and pretzels all over the place. I do not feel like I got the experience I paid for.

We had a great trip. The golf courses were great. The only negative to the trip was the hotel; The Temple Bar and Hotel. The noise from the back ally went on all night. If I did the trip again I would request a different hotel. Other than that, we had a great time. Thank you for setting up the trip for us. Sean

This was my first travel experience with Doc's Irish Tours, however my fourth to Scotland/Ireland, all golf-centric trips with friends. The trip was good- but there were numerous items which indicated that someone wasn't paying close attention to details. The trip got off to a rocky start on our arrival into St. Andrews following our first round of golf. Our group's itinerary indicated 4 persons staying in address A, 4 persons staying in address B about one block from each other. On arrival at close to 10 PM at night, Flat A had no entry instructions. Flat B had entry instructions- but were inaccurate. Turns out Flat B was occupied by someone else, and group B was in an entirely different flat on a different street. Not a small detail to get wrong. Flat A was a 3 BR/2 Bath, which was not suitable for a foursome of golfers for a week. The living room was the only place to store our golf gear, which meant no space in the flat for socializing. Not all of our golf courses had correct player information, despite this being shared with the tour operator. Our golf itinerary showed we were not on the Old Course Ballot for one particular day, but we were entered, which meant some of our players did not play Carnoustie and had to pay additional $ to play the Old Course. For an 'expert' on the local scene- we were never told that our trip fell over the University's move-in dates. This meant the best restaurants were booked and we were often scrambling to find any place that could accommodate our party of 8. The golf was exceptional- but it's Scotland. We knew the golf would be good.

Doc's did a great job setting up our trip. Golf courses and accommodations were fantastic. We will definitely use Doc's Tours for our next trip!