Cassidy Travel Swords
Information about Cassidy Travel Swords
Opening hours
- sunday: 12h-16h
- monday: 9:30-18h
- tuesday: 9:30-18h
- wednesday: 9:30-18h
- thursday: 9:30-20h
- friday: 9:30-20h
- saturday: 10h-17h
Established in 1985, Cassidy Travel is one of Ireland’s leading travel agents, with over 30 years experience in helping our customers personalise their holiday.
Winner of Ireland’s top travel agency in 2018, we're committed to offering value, choice and flexibility for our customers, with more than 100 travel experts offering advice on 200 different holiday destinations.
We can provide dedicated advice on how to make the most out of your trip, and whether you're a family, couple or a group of friends, we can help you find your perfect holiday.
Our comment from TraTraTravel Ireland about Cassidy Travel Swords:
Cassidy Travel Swords is a well-known travel agency in Ireland with a mix of reviews from satisfied and dissatisfied customers. The agency is praised for its knowledgeable and helpful staff, particularly Shirley, who has been noted for her expertise in travel planning. Many users have expressed their appreciation for the team's friendly and professional demeanor, making the holiday booking process easy and enjoyable.
Positive highlights include:
- Knowledgeable agents who provide excellent travel advice.
- Friendly and helpful customer service that often goes above and beyond.
- Efficient booking experience with low deposits.
- Good local knowledge of destinations and great travel deals.
- Support for various travel needs, including private transfers and excursions.
However, there are areas where the agency can improve, as some customers reported significant issues such as:
- Poor communication regarding bookings and travel arrangements.
- Instances of overbooking or hotels not being secured, leading to stressful travel experiences.
- Concerns about staff responsiveness and professionalism during the booking and travel process.
Although some reviews reflect negative experiences, the general consensus is that Cassidy Travel Swords has the potential to deliver fantastic trips with the right support. Overall, many customers continue to rely on them for their holiday needs.
Cassidy Travel Swords: Reviews
Fantastic experience: Would absolutely recommend Cassidy Travel Swords. A very knowledgeable and helpful team of travel experts. In particular, Shirley’s knowledge of a range of destinations and prompt communication was excellent. Will use again in future. 5 stars.
Negative experience: Awful experience. Waited over 10 years for a holiday. Nova apartments in Majorca "Family place" she said. Party's and loud music banging on doors staff and security couldn't cope. The rep was useless told us we would get a text regarding collection time by bus which was extra no text came. Flight delayed bags were on a different belt than the screen said and the rep couldn't understand why or have any information, really useless... Lots of people missed the bus because of her and then there rooms still were not ready. Had no faith in Cassidy travel swords.. some are too young and inexperienced.
Negative experience: I booked my honeymoon through this branch, and if I could give minus stars, I would. Below is the email I sent to the manager, Shirley, on May 13th, without even an apology in return. --- "Hi Shirley, I wrote to you last Thursday regarding my complaint about Cassidy Travel’s service. I haven't received a response, which I hope is a mistake rather than a lack of professionalism. We collected our tickets a week before our holiday. Our agent, Katie Leonard, wasn't there, so we dealt with Katie Keyes, who noticed our bags weren’t included in the internal flights. Despite explaining that Katie L had told us to add the bags during check-in, Katie K was worried about potential issues. She assured us she'd get back to us, which added to our concerns. Upon arriving in Nashville after 14 hours of travel, our hotel had no booking under my name. Despite an email confirmation from Katie K, we were overcharged $30 per night for a downgraded room. The hotel had no notes that it was our honeymoon, and neither were we given standard honeymoon perks. In Memphis, the booking confusion continued with a two-room switch that wasted our time and caused stress. Both Katie’s were unreachable during our trip, leaving us with no support. In Santa Monica and Las Vegas, the hotels had no record of our honeymoon. Our Las Vegas hotel even had no booking for us under our names. We ended up sitting separately on our flight from Las Vegas to London, an 11 hour flight, despite booking in January. This unacceptable service cost us over €5000. I expect a sincere apology, empathy, and compensation for these issues. This experience has made me vow never to use Cassidy Travel again." --- This remains unanswered, reflecting the unprofessionalism and incompetence we experienced.
Negative experience: Paid Cassidy Travel for flights and hotel accommodation in Orlando. Departed from Dublin on 4th June. Arrived at our stopover in Newark Airport to receive an email informing us that our hotel in Orlando was over booked and we had been transferred to the Avanti Hotel. Arrived at the Avanti Hotel to discover that our accommodation had not been booked. Cassidy Travel in Dublin were closed and uncontactable. Now we’re in Orlando without accommodation.
Fantastic experience: Shirley was my holiday planner. Very professional lady and certainly knows what she's talking about.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful friendly staff. Very easy
Fantastic experience: Very professional great local knowledge of foreign destinations, holiday is booked no hassle, fingers crossed all goes well
Fantastic experience: Amanda was very prompt a d helpful with quote
Fantastic experience: Great staff, and great deals
Negative experience: Ripe off. Promised hotel is close to the seaside all ripe off, promised we will get separated double bed inwhich we paid hugely to get that but all was garbage,, paid to stay near the city but I find hotel in the middle of Bush and to get to the city is €50 a drop ,It's a shame and a huge disappointment, all we saw was swimming pool not seaside,( onyeorii) I don't recommend this travel agency to anyone unless you want to cry and spend more than your budget during your holiday , shame to you all in that office IT'S 419 Agency . This travel agency did not pay hotel tax also the hotel ask us to pay it on behalf of them it's a shame upon we paid hugely , THEY DON'T CARE, ONLY MONEY THEY'RE AFTER. Shame shame shame.
Negative experience: Severe lack of communication over changing of my flight by 14 hours! Overall very stressful experience with my booking with Cassidy Travel Swords. Lost out on bookings I had made so lost out on money too. Would never book with them again. Staff were very rude when I called before leaving for my trip.
Negative experience: To be honest I wouldn't use these again as they don't accept responsibility for the services they recommend which is no use to a family with disabilities. Nightmare situation in GDG wheb taxi didn't turn up, the taxi claimed it did, and it may have, however we instructed the girl at the purchase of the holiday that we wouldn't be going through baggage claim (as disability family! we travel light) they didn't listen to the instruction and then proceeded to try and shift the blame to the lovely taxi driver who followed their WRONG instructions. If you have a disabled family - don't boom services.
Fantastic experience: They go to no end to get you the best value and listen to your needs for your holiday. Always very pleasant
Fantastic experience: Super staff with great knowledge
Fantastic experience: Highly recommend
Fantastic experience: Difficult times have come, but the option of monthly payments for the dream vacation worked in our case. The professional staff will advise and select an offer for every budget. Greetings from Mallorca.
Fantastic experience: Very easy to search online for a holiday. Great choice of hotels, dates, flight options etc.
Fantastic experience: Lisa is always a pleasure to deal with. Highly recommend
Negative experience: I did not have a good experience with this company. I would neither use or recommend them to friends or family. Hard to get direct information from them about my booking. I had never used them before, and I would never use them again I have just been reading through the reviews on this page. Most of them have much the same experience as I did, some had good reviews I must have got them on a bad year because, I found them very unhelpful, didn't return calls when said they would. Passed blame for certain things booked with them onto the cruise company and gave me no information on the ship I was booked on. Also charged for restaurant onboard for 2 meals there was no such restaurant on the ship. . I personally think that both the manager and staff need to be retrained inTheir job and how to deal with the customer, after all we are paying for their service
Fantastic experience: Great staff very helpful
Fantastic experience: Fantastic service !! Booked few trips with them already . 100% recommended!! Special thanks for Lisa Walsh She looked after us recently in Swords Pavilions office . Helped choose the best deal always With smile and very knowledgeable. Exceptional service !!!! Give her rise Thanks a lot !!!! Maja&Piotr
Negative experience: Not good service and still using large screens from the Covid era so difficult to hear staff
Fantastic experience: Fantastic service. Highly recommended
Fantastic experience: Staff
Fantastic experience: Great service,really do look after there customers and cater for all your holiday needs,sound bunch
Fantastic experience: Always great service from the staff there! Cannot fault them at all.
Fantastic experience: Very polite staff and very helpful
Positive experience: Plenty of choice and well laud out website. Having said that I always like the face to face touch. Staff ib the pavilions of swords always nice to deal with.
Fantastic experience: Thanks for the help in booking another holidayso easy when you do all the work, if you are thinking of booking a holiday let cassidy travel swords help you with all your travel requirements and needs great friendly staff, thanks again
Negative experience: Terrible customer service, avoid all costs. In particular manager Shirley. Holiday booked and paid for then when going to collect tickets the booked hotel wasn't open as renovations meant no opening till later this year. As it was only a week till holiday we were ram roaded into a poor choice away from original hotel with downgraded rooms. Told enjoy holiday and sort something when back. Since return company put blame on TUI as they book through them and Shirley refuses to return calls . I'd advise anyone to avoid them and just book direct with TUI as thats all they do then blank you
Fantastic experience: Very helpful
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and very helpful
Negative experience: Just left Swords. Went into Cassidy at 16:15pm to book Florida with great intentions of spending a few pennies. 3 staff at the store. 1 serving a customer. Was informed by the assumed manager they were closed. Checked opening hours online and i5 states 6pm??? Who closes there doors to paying customers at 16:15pm on a Tuesday??!!!!! Shocking!! Wont be back ill bring my business elsewhere.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful information and service from Michelle .. Highly Recomend Clare .
Negative experience: I doubt I'll book here again. Several issues. First told balance due 6 weeks before holiday but got emails demanding balance way ahead of the 6 weeks. Thought holiday as per invoice was paid only to be told on collecting tickets, week before holiday, that a fee was due on arrival and not a small amount either (would have been nice to be warned in the weeks leading up to it). Seriously bad communication not only with customers but between staff. Getting wrong information, being told someone will get back to you only to have to chase them yourself. As if all this wasn't bad enough, one occasion I was on a phone call with someone trying to sort which would have seen me spending more money and I was told, "the queue is building here, you'll have to phone back". What makes a customer over the phone less important than a customer standing in a queue. The worst experience ever.
Fantastic experience: We have booked with cassidy travel for the past 10 yrs Why go anywhere else they are so helpful and do exactly what it says on the tin
Negative experience: Went in to get a quote, girl took my details gave me a provisional quote, and was supposed to email me with detailed one, but failed to do so, I rang and was told she was off and would be in the following day and they would get her to contact me, but that never materialised, so booked the same cruise with sunway does lightening strike twice was in pavilions August bank holiday sat, and enquired into getting a quote for a Thailand holiday for 4 adults for aprl /may next year, girl took all my details and she told me the online dept would have to quote when back in work on tues, two weeks later and they haven't bothered, extremely poor service, needless to say we won't be booking with Cassidy travel
Positive experience: Good place to book a holiday, I'd book with them again.
Fantastic experience: Excellent customer service
Positive experience: Lisa & Nicole in swords are great , always booked my holidays with them and only them
Fantastic experience: Booked a recent trip with cassidy travel. Always such nice staff. (Expecially girl called april). Went to swords pavillions. Its great the way that u can book with a small deposit and then pay it off as you go.
Positive experience: Good to deal with but very frustrating when you are so long waiting for the staff to answer the phone and there website tells different times to the actual opening times made a trip to swords website said open till 8but when we got there they were closed since 6
Fantastic experience: Most helpful staff and took all the stress out of booking a holiday. I would highly recommend this company. Thank you.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic amazing staff so helpful would highly recommend them
Positive experience: Very helpful staff
Negative experience: I called for information and spoke to two different people. Both said they'd call back and I am still waiting.
Positive experience: Good friendly staff been booking through them for the last 9 years nothing bad to say about them
Fantastic experience: Looked after very well
Positive experience: Very helpful and efficient
Fantastic experience: Great place to go to get great deals on holidays and staff who have a wealth of knowledge
Fantastic experience: Staff are friendly and very helpful and ensure to deal with
Fantastic experience: Super friendly and nice service
Positive experience: Good travel agents
Fantastic experience: Nicole was very efficient and friendly
Fantastic experience: Absolutely brilliant as always!!!!
Positive experience: I would highly advise to book with Cassidy in person with an advisor as we booked two years ago and had best holiday ever, this year we booked through online cassidy website and many things we have find out after we paid and wasn't happy enough... When Cassidy staff couldn't help to sort it after all...
Fantastic experience: I have been booking my trip with cassidy travel in swords for a number of years now. They provide such fantastic service and are really knowledgable on the best areas to visit for holiday. They organise everything from private transfers, insurance and excursions. I wouldn’t book with anyone else expect cassidy travel. All the girls are so helpful and Lisa who I deal with is one of the best.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful and staff are very friendly left with the holiday we wanted so was very happy
Fantastic experience: When travelling for holiday with the family we are choosing this place in Swords to help us.
Positive experience: Open till 8om and nobody's around at 630pm .Holidays must be in huge demand, as i was on the phone for 1/2 hour with no answer and again later poor customer service.
Fantastic experience: Excellent friendly staff no problem booking 'hols' and low deposit
Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff five star experience
Positive experience: Lovely people to deal with, friendly and do their best to find you best deal available
Fantastic experience: Brilliant to deal with was looking on line but went to cassidy travel for a price and they gave me a great deal.
Fantastic experience: Service is exceptionally good.
Fantastic experience: First class service. All the agents have a wealth of travel knowledge.
Negative experience: Very desapoited went to travel with my partner very bad comunication had to keep going back to get my tickets as they made mistake in name not once but twice . On the way to Miami they didn't give as seat together . And had to wait for a transfer from my cruise for 1 hour . For the money that I paid I expect something bit better
Negative experience: Bad customer service, I have rang and emailed about a booking we made months ago and still no reply.
Positive experience: It's efficient and people are friendly. I did expect notification that tickets were there but had to ring them to find out
Negative experience: I saved 600 euro from the Cassidy Travel quote by doing all the booking online myself. Travel consultant did not seem interested in my needs for my Disney Paris trip for my family. Bad experience.
Fantastic experience: Prompt and courteous service by Shirley and the team at Cassidys
Fantastic experience: Staff were very friendly and helpful
Negative experience: I was a bit disappointed. My daughter booked a holiday a lot cheaper on the internet.
Fantastic experience: We book all our holidays here and find the staff extremely helpful with a great knowledge of resorts and properties
Negative experience: Very bad customer service. Girl (don't know her name) wasn't helpful at all. We left without holidays booked.
Fantastic experience: You pay for what you get a really good service
Fantastic experience: Thanks to Janette for helping us book a holiday today you were amazing.
Positive experience: Good value and helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Cassidy Travel are great in the Pavilions Swords . They have booked many holidays for us over the years. We always get great advice from staff members there especially Janette. She is very friendly and helpful and always gets us great deals. Keep up the good work guys see you soon again for another great deal
Negative experience: Thanks Classify for the hotel booking. Hotel de California is a disgrace of a hotel. First night here and list of problems are long. We need our money back Asap and a new hotel. This is an absolute joke!
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