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Sceptre Tours is offering packages at the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort in Ireland from $499 per person including air.

The Ireland Resort vacation package is for a three-bedroom villa on the grounds of the five-star Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort in Ireland.

The package includes accommodations for six nights in a three-bedroom villa, roundtrip trans-Atlantic airfare to Shannon, weekly manual car rental, entrance to Belleek Pottery Visitor Centre, and a Shannon Region Discount Booklet ($500 in savings).

This package is priced from $499 per person (based on four travelers) for departures Jan. 7 to March 10, 2010, from JFK, $519 from Boston, $549 from Chicago, and over 100 departure cities at slightly higher rates.

Rates for travel from June 16 to Aug. 23 are $949 from JFK, $969 from Boston, and $999 from Chicago.

This package is available from Jan. 7 to Aug. 23, 2010.

The luxurious 864-acre Adare Manor Villas feature three bedrooms — each with its own bath — a spacious kitchen, sitting room (which can be used as a fourth bedroom with its pull-out sofa and its own bath), living room, conservatory/sun room, and laundry room.

It is suitable for a group of couples traveling together, an extended family, or group of golfers.

Adare Manor is in the village of Adare, consistently named one of the prettiest villages in all of Ireland.

The location of the resort in County Limerick also affords the opportunity for easy day trips north to the Limerick, Killarney, Bunratty and the Cliffs of Moher, West to the Ring of Kerry, and South to Kinsale.

Other resort activities include horseback riding, fishing, archery, clay pigeon shooting, cooking demonstrations, and falconry.

Travelers can further enhance their trip by upgrading to Business Class airfare priced from $499 each way on Aer Lingus.

Based in Lynbrook, N.Y., and founded in 1981, Sceptre Tours is a family-owned and operated company providing travel to Ireland, Britain, Italy, as well as river cruising.

For more information, call 800-813-5297 or visit www.sceptretours.com