FROM IRELAND
26–29 MARCH 2027 · FOOTBALL 27–28 MARCH 2027
THE EASTER CUP FROM IRELAND
DOOR TO DOOR, ONE PRICE.
A coach from your own clubhouse, the ferry, three nights at Marine Holiday Park on the North Wales coast and the tournament — one per-person price, based on 40 people sharing the coach.
AGES U7–U16 · GIRLS & BOYS
from €429 per person (6 sharing)
5 sharing €482 · 4 sharing €574
door-to-door: coach from your region, ferry, 3 nights at Marine Holiday Park, stay & entry
Per person, staying at Marine Holiday Park (minimum 6 per home), based on 40 people sharing the coach. Fewer sharing a home costs more per person, as shown. All prices are subject to availability. Send us your group size and we will quote you.
THE EASTER WEEKEND
THREE NIGHTS ON THE COAST,
TWO DAYS OF FOOTBALL
You arrive on the Friday, the squad is on the pitch on the Saturday and Sunday, and you travel home on the Monday. In between there is a holiday park with a pool in it, a beach down the road, and a whole club in one place for three days.
Group games on the Saturday. Sunday is seeded from Saturday's results and finishes with medals and trophies at the finals — every squad plays on both days, whatever the Saturday did to them.
The tournament runs U7–U16, with girls' sections as well as boys'. Age groups are staggered across the two days, so a club bringing four squads is not trying to be in four places at once.
FOOTBALL
27–28 March 2027
THE STAY
Three nights, Friday to Monday
WHERE YOU STAY
MARINE HOLIDAY PARK, ON THE NORTH WALES COAST
Not a hotel and not a hostel — Marine Holiday Park, with the whole travelling party in holiday homes on the same site, a minimum of 6 per home. Pools, arcades, evening entertainment and the beach, all of it inside what you have already paid.
There is another option we can price for a larger travelling party. Golden Gate Holiday Centre is a Static Caravan Park, perfectly located in the beautiful North Wales area. Tell us how many are coming and we will put the squad, the parents and the siblings on one site.
OR MAKE IT A FOOTBALL PILGRIMAGE
STAY IN LIVERPOOL OR MANCHESTER INSTEAD
The park is the easy answer, and it sits on the road between the ferry and the pitches. But if the squad would rather wake up in a football city, we can put you in a hotel in Liverpool or Manchester and run the same coach to every fixture. Liverpool puts Anfield on your doorstep; Manchester gives you Old Trafford and the Etihad. Everything else about the trip is unchanged — same coach from your clubhouse, same ferry, same one price per person.
Ask for it when you enquire and we will quote it beside the park price, so you can put both in front of the parents.
PREFER A HOTEL?
HOTELS NEAR CHESTER AND LIVERPOOL
Some clubs would rather a hotel than a park — breakfast every morning, and closer to Chester, Liverpool and the stadium days. Same coach from your clubhouse, same crossing, same tournament. These are the hotels we use; a hotel stay is quoted separately from the park price.
WHERE WE START
Holiday Inn Express Chester Racecourse
Chester · where we start
Crowne Plaza Chester
Chester city centre
Village Hotel Chester
Chester · pool
Holiday Inn Runcorn
Between Chester, Liverpool and Manchester
Crowne Plaza Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Next to the airport
Or similar, named and confirmed with your quote.
THE JOURNEY
OFF THE FERRY, INTO THE PARK
- 01
FRIDAY MORNING
The coach is outside the clubhouse and the kitbags go under it. Nobody books a crossing, nobody drives, nobody counts cars in a car park at seven in the morning.
- 02
THE CROSSING
Dublin to Holyhead, the squad together on deck with the rest of the trip ahead of them. The coach crosses with you rather than meeting you on the far side.
- 03
FRIDAY EVENING
Off at Holyhead and about an hour up the coast. Keys, lodges, and the pool open before the football has even started.
Clubs in the south can travel Rosslare to Fishguard instead. It is the closer port for the south east and a longer drive once you are in Wales — tell us where the club is based and we will quote the route that suits you.
THE WHOLE TRAVELLING PARTY
WHOLE CLUB, ONE COACH,
NOBODY SPLIT UP
Bring one squad or bring the whole underage soccer section. Players, siblings and parents travel on the same coach and stay on the same park, and that coach stays with you all weekend for the runs between the park and the pitches. No convoy, no family left working out its own way there.
The evenings on the park are put on for the whole travelling party, not just the squads — which is how a club comes home having had a holiday as well as a tournament.
WHILE YOU'RE HERE
THE BIT THEY TALK ABOUT ON THE WAY HOME
You are an hour from Liverpool and Manchester and twenty minutes from Chester. Plenty of clubs add a day to the trip and go and stand in a ground they have only ever seen on the telly. Any of these can be built into your itinerary and priced into your quote.
Anfield stadium tour & LFC museum
The Anfield tour and LFC Museum, from the players' tunnel to six decades of silverware, on a day the stadium is free of matches.
Old Trafford tour & museum
The stadium tour and museum at Old Trafford, on a day it isn't hosting a match. A morning or afternoon slot fits either side of festival football.
Everton's new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock
A tour of Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium on the Liverpool waterfront, where public tours are on offer, worked around match-day closures.
National Football Museum, Manchester
Four galleries and interactive exhibits covering the whole history of the game, a straightforward half-day in Manchester city centre.
Premier League or EFL match tickets
A live match added to your stay where the fixture list allows and tickets are available — we check the calendar and build around it.
Coaching session with a local professional club
A session run by coaches from a local professional club's academy set-up, added to your stay on the right dates and built around your squad's level.
Chester Zoo
One of the UK's largest zoos, an easy half or full day out for a squad with some energy left after football.
Zip World, Eryri (Snowdonia)
Zip lines, forest adventure and underground slate-cavern activities in Eryri National Park, a change of pace from the pitch.
Chester city and its Roman walls, the Liverpool waterfront, Conwy Castle, Cheshire Oaks and a bowling evening on the park are all on the list too. Tell us what the squad would like to do and we build the itinerary, the transport and the timings around the football.
ONE PER-PERSON PRICE
WHAT'S IN THE PRICE
- ✓Coach from your club, there and back
- ✓Ferry crossing for the whole group
- ✓Marine Holiday Park for the full stay, minimum 6 per home
- ✓Festival entry, every age group
- ✓Your coach for park-to-pitch transfers
- ✓Every family books and pays through its own link — the organiser never collects money
Not included: meals, travel insurance — a condition of booking for every traveller — and any days out you choose to add.
YOUR OWN WAY
Driving to Holyhead yourselves?
Plenty of clubs do. If you are making your own way over, you want the UK package — the stay and the festival entry, without the coach and the crossing. It is priced on the tournament page.
SEE THE TOURNAMENT PAGETHE ADMIN
BOOKING IT IS THE EASY PART
You will not be standing at training with an envelope. Every family gets its own booking link, books its own place and pays for it directly — so the organiser never collects the money, never chases it, and is never left carrying a shortfall for a family who dropped out in February.
Send us a message and you get back a pick-up point, a crossing, a park and a per-person price — with no obligation and nothing to sign. The four steps below are the whole of it.
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The long version of this trip, written out day by day, is in the Ireland guide.
HOW BOOKING WORKS
FOUR STEPS, START TO FINISH
From the night you send the link round to the week you travel — what happens, who does it, and when the money is due.
- 01
Get your quote
Tell us your club, your age groups and roughly how many are travelling. We come back with a price per person and a booking link for your club.
- 02
Share the link with the group
Drop the link in the club WhatsApp group. That is the organiser's job done — nobody collects money, keeps a spreadsheet or chases a family who hasn't paid.
- 03
Families book their own
Each family picks the park and the unit that suits them and pays its own deposit to secure its place. Units go in the order families book, so the clubs that share the link early get the widest choice.
- 04
Balance 10 weeks before you travel
Each family pays its balance 10 weeks before you go, on its own booking. Both dates are on your quote and on every family's confirmation from the start.
BEFORE YOU TRAVEL
THE THREE THINGS WE WALK YOU THROUGH
Taking an underage squad out of the country comes with a short list, and it is short. We send it to you as a checklist when you book and work through it with you — nothing on it has ever stopped a club travelling with us.
Passports
From 28 September 2026 the Dublin and Rosslare crossings will need a valid passport, or an Irish passport card, for every passenger of any age. A passport card is quicker and cheaper than a book. Worth checking expiry dates over the winter, because spring renewals run long. A player who is neither Irish nor British will also need a UK ETA.
Permission
Your club's Honorary Secretary starts the SFAI Rule 28 request, your league stamps it, and it needs to reach the SFAI at least 21 days before you travel — 60 days for a newly formed squad. The permission itself is the FAI's to give, not ours; we send you the tournament dates, venue and organiser details in the form the SFAI asks for them.
Supervision
Your own vetted adults travel with the squad, to the FAI's ratios of one adult to eight players under 12 and one to ten over 12, under a named head of delegation. No adult shares a room with a child — we plan the unit allocation with you before anything is confirmed, so the club's room plan holds.
The permission forms and the current wording live with the FAI, and the permission address is permission@fai.ie. A trip risk-assessment template is available on request, and it is worth telling the club's insurer about the trip before you travel.
FROM NORTHERN IRELAND
FROM THE NORTH, IT IS JUST AS EASY
Wales is a domestic trip from the North. We pick up from Belfast and Newry, the coach crosses with you, and clubs travelling from Northern Ireland are quoted in sterling.
If the sailing times suit your squad better, we can run you down to Dublin and cross from there instead — same coach, same one price. Worth knowing that the Dublin route is one of the ones where every passenger needs a passport or passport card from 28 September 2026, while the Belfast sailings are unchanged. Tell us your numbers and we will price whichever works.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
QUESTIONS IRISH CLUBS ASK
- How long is the crossing?
- Dublin to Holyhead takes about three and a quarter to three and a half hours, and it is the sailing most clubs travel on. Rosslare to Fishguard is the southern alternative, with a longer drive at the Welsh end. Your coach is on the same sailing as the squad, so nobody is left waiting at either port, and the exact sailing is confirmed with your booking.
- Do the parents travel on the coach?
- Yes. The coach is for the whole travelling party — players, siblings and parents — and everyone stays on the same park. It is the same coach out, back, and between the park and the pitches all weekend.
- Can we take more than one age group?
- Yes, and most clubs do. The tournament runs U7–U16, with girls' sections as well as boys', and age groups play at staggered times across the two days, so a club travelling with several squads is not trying to be in three places at once.
- What is there to do between matches?
- The parks themselves carry the weekend — pools, arcades, evening entertainment and the beach — and they are included. On top of that we can build in a stadium tour, a match, a session with professional coaches or a day out, priced into your quote. Tell us the kind of trip you have in mind.
- How does paying work?
- A deposit when the club commits, then the balance ahead of travel. Every family books and pays for itself through its own link, so the organiser never collects the money and is never left carrying a family who drops out. Irish clubs are quoted and pay in euro — by card, SEPA transfer or Revolut.
- Can we pay in euro?
- Yes. Irish clubs are quoted per person in euro and pay in it. Clubs travelling from Northern Ireland are quoted in sterling.
- What if a child has no passport?
- They will need one. From 28 September 2026 the Dublin and Rosslare routes will accept only a valid passport or an Irish passport card, for every passenger of any age — no birth certificates and no driving licences. An Irish passport card counts and is quicker and cheaper than a book. Apply as soon as the squad is confirmed, because spring renewals run long. A player who is neither Irish nor British will also need a UK ETA. The Belfast routes are unchanged.
- Do we need permission to travel?
- Yes, and it is the club's to obtain rather than ours to give. Under SFAI Rule 28 your Honorary Secretary starts the request, your league confirms it and stamps the form, it reaches the SFAI at least 21 days before you travel — 60 days for a newly formed squad — and the completed FAI permission form goes to permission@fai.ie with both the league and affiliate stamps. We send the tournament details in the form the SFAI wants them.
- Who supervises the children?
- Your club's own vetted adults, to the FAI's ratios of one adult to eight players under 12 and one to ten over 12, with a named head of delegation. No adult shares a room with a child, and we plan the room allocation with you so the club's own plan holds. Revel's staff are on site all weekend and hold UK checks, but they are there to run the tournament and the park — they do not replace your club's supervision.
- When do we have to commit?
- As early as you can. The coast parks sell out before the football does, and the SFAI needs your permission request at least 21 days before you travel — 60 days for a newly formed squad. Tell us your numbers and we will hold what you need while the club decides.
NO COMMITMENT
GET A DOOR-TO-DOOR QUOTE
Tell us where the club is based, roughly how many are travelling and which age groups. We come back within one working day with the pick-up, the crossing, the park and a per-person price. Coach-and-ferry packages are priced by hand, not by a calculator — which is why we ask.
Prefer to type it into WhatsApp? That works too — the same team answers.
SEND US THE CLUB AND THE AGE GROUPS.
WE'LL DO THE REST.
Or email football@revelfootball.com