Car Hire Wicklow - Mini guide to Wicklow

Travel to Wicklow in Ireland

Wicklow is a beautiful county located on the eastern coast of Ireland. Completely blessed with natural beauty, Wicklow is also known as the garden of Ireland. It has magnificent hills and beautiful beaches. In short, it has every element to make it an ideal holiday-destination. It is the perfect place for every excursion trip whether a family holiday, a honeymoon or just a short weekend trip.

The main attractions of this place are the Clogga beach, Meeting of the waters, Mount Usher gardens and the Blessington lakes. All these places are marvelous examples of natural beauty. Wicklow has many historical monuments to boast of like Baltinglass Abbey and Dwyer Macalllister cottage.

Wicklow’s architectural heritage needs to be seen and to be believed. Wicklow was founded by the Vikings tribe in 870 A.D. and its name is derived from the word “Vikinglow”. Wicklow was established as a county in 1606 from Dublin and Carlow and was the last county to be established.

Wicklow is also known as the Hollywood of Europe with the shootings of popular English movies like Excalibur, Brave heart and I love you. When visiting this place, you can enjoy a tour of all these sites where these blockbusters were shot. You can enjoy the rich arts and culture of this place which is shown in festivals like Arklow music festival and Bray Jazz festival.

Wicklow offers a plethora of accommodation facilities to the tourists to suit their pocket. For elegant five star hotels to nice and clean two –star hotels, Wicklow has lodging facilities available for each class of tourist. Enthusiasts can also go for high-class horse-driven caravans and just get a new kind of experience.

It is very easy to travel to this place as it is just 16 kms south of Dublin and you can easily commute through bus and car. You can also avail rail from Dublin to travel to this place.

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We rent the following types of cars: Economy (Vauxhall Corsa or equiv.), Mini, Small family (Ford Focus or equiv.), Medium family (Toyota Avensis or equiv.), large family (BMW 5 series), 4x4, SUV, Convertible, Van, Sports car, Luxury cars.

Hire cheap cars from the following suppliers, Ebookers, Opodo, Avis, Expedia, Sixt, Thrifty and budget rental prices from EasyCar, Budget, Holiday Autos, Economy, 121carhire.

The major suburbs in Wicklow are: Broomhall, Ballyguile, Ballynerrin, Dunbur and Sea Crest.