Crag Cave — Attraction in Tralee Municipal District

Visited on a weekday right at the end of tourist season. Pretty easy parking, though this would be much tougher in high season! We checked on the website and couldn't see anything about dogs not being allowed, but on checking on arrival dogs are NOT permitted inside.

Entering the main building there is a restaurant and a gift shop, and the main desk where you can purchase your tickets, and the staff will guide you through connecting to their WiFi and downloading the audio tour guide.

Once done, you walk down a covered sloping walkway to the entrance to the cave. Here you enter a vertical shaft with a steel staircase, descending down into the main cave system.

At the bottom of the first staircase, you enter the cave proper, and can start to walk along the cave path, listening to the tour and checking out the cave formations - motion activated lights will illuminate the various areas.

The path is very well maintained, being flat and level - though often wet due to the nature of the cave, and there is a sturdy handrail down both sides of the path. If you can manage the 70 odd stairs to reach the caves, you should have no problem inside.

The cave system is not that long - at least the tourist path part anyway, and terminates after the 7th narrated 'stop' - I was quite surprised we reached the end as quickly as we did. When you reach the end, you turn around and retrace your steps, walking along the same path, against the flow of people coming in behind you.

When it's nice and quiet this is no problem, but I can imagine this can get quite congested at peak times, even if they limit the number of people in the cave at any one time. If there are a whole bunch of people all listening to the audio tour at the same time, but at different parts of the tour, that could also be less than ideal.

Overall, I think I found the engineering of the access to the cave as interesting and impressive as the cave itself - imagining the effort and difficulties in getting the concrete and other materials that far underground gave my dad and I as much to talk about as the ancient limestone cave...

There's certainly nothing wrong with the cave, I was just expecting a little more than we got for our €15 each, especially when the cave boasts of having over 1.5 million visitors... sure there was a lot of up front investment to get it ready for the public, but now it doesn't feel like great value for money.

Toilets upstairs were clean and well kept, the gift shop was packed with the usual tourist tat, and I can't comment on the restaurant as we didn't visit.

Temper your expectations and this is a perfectly reasonable cave visit, especially if you've never been underground before. If you've visited other caves though, or been caving, then the title "Irelands most exciting cave" might feel a...

Do not recommend. Not worth the price. We were looking forward. Went out of our way to visit. Spent about 15 minutes here. First went inside and paid entry and was told to scan a Qr code to listen to the 22 minute audio while down in the Cave. I clicked on the link but it didn't load.

Proceeded to get the 2 kids, two 99 icecreams and they looked lovely. So we started going out down towards the Cave and I heard them whispering. They said the ice cream tasted very weird. So I tried a bit with my finger and it was disgusting. It was a very weird slimy after taste. I went back inside and said the ice cream tasted a bit off. And it was like I did something wrong for coming back complaining about it. A woman came out from the kitchen with a spoon and a bowl and said we have to try it. I said no problem. And she said oh its fine. She then proceeded to tell me maybe I'm used to different ice cream. I said no, ice cream is ice cream and explained the ice creams the kids got tasted weird and had a strange slimy after taste and then an other girl suggested maybe it tastes a bit strange after the chocolate? The kids ate the flake first as they always do but I didn't have any of the flake.

So I was left standing there like as if I was some sort of fool. There was some man hovering about the place also just looking important. I was then offered maybe a bag of taytos in exchange as the ice creams went in the bin. I paid 5 euro for 2 ice creams and a bag of tayto was probably a euro each. After paying 24 euro already to visit the cave. So I asked could they have a cookie each instead. Now the young girl working there was very nice. And friendly. And I did apologies saying I'm so sorry now but the ice cream was weird. I'd say it was after turning. The outdoor playground was closed off for construction, yet no work was being done. We went down to the Cave and were in and out in about 5 minutes.

If I could give zero stars for this place I would. Also as we were leaving, we walked back in and i must have walked the wrong way, and asked the kids how do we exit. And the man who was busy standing there, just out of no where said "your looking for the exit? Out there". Very ignorantly.

Rubbish experience and sickening ice cream with 2 unpleasant...

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