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The ferries used are fast, modern and comfortable and have a full bar service. There are daily departures all year round to the three islands. The company offers great family and group rates and can organize all aspects of your trip - accomodation/tours of island etc.

Transport: You have a choice of : Minibus, pony and trap/sidecar, or bicycle hire to enable you to tour the island.

Food and Drink: You have Restaurants - some with a wine list and serving fresh seafood menus: also tea and coffee shops and fast food and various snack facilities. There are six pubs.

Leisure: There is a choice of Tours, as outlined above. Safe, sandy beaches exist for bathing: clear water for sail-boarding or boating.
Facilities are provided for deep-sea angling, or you can find many spots suitable for rock-fishing. For conviviality, there are the island's pubs, where you can often hear the best of music, instrumental and vocal. Dances (sometimes ceilis) are held in Halla Ronain - also a pretty cool disco. In the open air, Arainn is a paradise for bird watchers or the lover of wild flowers and plants. Many visitors like best of all to savour in total freedom the island's peace and quiet: walking our roads (there are two where no bus or car runs) or the myriad of small winding paths between stone walls or over open sandy dunes or by dizzying cliff heights. These walks are for many an enduring Arainne memory.

Antiquities: Another sight which stays in most visitor's memories is the 2,000 year old Celtic dry-stone fort of Dun Aonghusa. Its central wall, 13ft. thick by 18ft. high, perches in an immense semi-circle atop 300ft. of high sheer cliff. Elsewhere in Arainn we have three other stone dunes. Some Late Stone Age tomb sites show that Aran was inhabited 2,000 years earlier still. More numerous yet are the Christian monastic remains testifying to the eight centuries from St. Enda's arrival c.490, when "Ara na Naomh" ("of the Saints") was Ireland's great pioneering school of spirituality.