What an experience. From the ferry trip to the tour. Paul our tour guide was brilliant. Full of enthusiasm an knowledge. He really made the tour interesting. We all learned stuff we didnt know. My son hasnt stopped talking about it. He has a love for Irish history thanks to his grandad. I would definitely recommend.

This place is so interesting! Gorgeous views of the harbor. We took so many photos! Kevin was our tour guide and he did a fantastic job at telling us the history of the island and why it is still important. The museums in the fort are informative and thought provoking.

Unplanned trip by my wife and I as we had a weekend in Cork and had not done the trip the previous time we were in Cobh. Very surprising how good the setup is and the history of the Island is intriguing. Well worth the visit but would watch the weather we got out and back before the weather turned into a horrible day..

We were on a Princess cruise that called at Cobh. We booked a tour of Spike Island and had an outstanding tour guide named Hannah! She was knowledgeable and very enthusiastic. The day was lovely; the island was quite interesting and the ferry ride over was calm and relaxing. Highly recommend!

Eye opening experience to how the Irish prisoners were treated. It was impactful and we enjoyed our tour guide, Anna, for the first 40 minutes before we were sent to explore independently. You have about a 15-20 minute boat ride there and back then about 3 hours on the island itself. Time flys by! Be mindful of the spiders on the ceilings they are huge and not visible in the dark!!!!!!!

Finnian was a great tour guide, he had a sweet personality and was very helpful when we had questions. He was very knowledgeable about the island and its history and was very patient with my young granddaughter, 16 months, who was pretty fussy towards the beginning as she wanted to get down and just explore! The beginning of the tour was guided and then we were set free to explore the island in its entirety. Very cool experience and well worth the visit!

Heard so many good things about Spike island! It definitely lived up to expectations, very historical and interesting island! The tour was half guided which was very good, Paul our tour guide was brilliant, he was witty and constantly kept he group paying attention! Highly recommend it to anyone visiting Cohn!

Did the day tour with a school group, our guide was Kevin. Did the After Dark tour with friends, our guide was Adam, and I enjoyed both tours immensely. The two tours were so different and I'd love to return to do them again! The café and gift shop have lovely souveniers and all members of staff was welcoming and helpful. Thank you for two wonderful tours!

AFTER DARK TOUR Absolutely blown away!! I'll start off the review by saying if like the American in the most recent comment complained about not learning alot of "history" on the tour. Great!! Its not a history tour we wanted, its a scary after dark tour through the scarier parts of the prison the general public don't go. Calling the mentalist who was performing there a waste of time because it didn't suit what you expected is horrendous!! Myself and my friends had seen him advertised and accidentally booked the wrong dates to go it was only after the booking did we see he wasn't there those dates, so to get there and have a surprise performance from him was great it broke up the walking around we had comfy seats and an spectacular mind reading show!! The rest of the tour was spooky but definitely not anything like a horror jump scare thing, regardless we had never seen that guy perform before we were happily surprise we did he was great. Rob our tour guide was very informative. The only downside was the rain waiting for the boat for so long. Although it was clearly not the staffs fault as they were waiting to catch the same boat with the rest of us! All in all a great way to spend afew hours, the mentalist show was top notch. 110% recommend!!

A really fascinating place to visit. Felicity gave us a great introduction tour when we arrived and then we spent the rest of the afternoon exploring. We could have spent much longer looking around. Lots of different stories and history. A great day out.