It depends on the distance for the taxi ride but remember if you travel via the lake you are cutting off a huge slice of land to the desired venue. Taxi rides are expensive in Killarney

It's not a loop so so you turn back. However there isn't an 'end' as such so it's hard to know when to stop and turn back. We walked for around an hour before turning. This brought us further than the jaunting cars but we could have gone further.

just seeing this--it cost us 30 euro per person and we only went half way up and back down the gap. (Actually, that was a lot but once we were in the cart, we were happy not to go all the way!!)

Hello Usually the mornings are the best time to do the jaunting car rides , if you arrive between 9 and 10 am there will be no waiting to do this

Hi in answer to your question we arrived a Kate Kearney’s cottage at 11.30 am on a Saturday and had no problem with getting jaunting cart you’ll see them just beyond the cottage we went for a coffee first beforehand most tourists like to walk it but it’s along way and its mostly uphill. You need to allow upto 2 hours for the cart trip depending on how far you want to go we paid €80 for the 2 of us that takes you up threw the gap . Only group tours go the full distance to the lake because they would have a bout waiting to take them back to Killarney. There is no other place to get a jaunting cart for the gap unless you book a group tour from Killarney and do it the one way by boat from Killarney of which would mean a large group ? I would recommend driving to Kate’s cottage and doing it that way to benefit the experience. Hope this is of help to you one more tip if you haven’t already booked your hotel I would highly recommend the heights hotel in Killarney it’s a great hotel 👍

Actually it depends on the mood of the jaunter, your negotiation and maybe the moon. We had a bad experience there and it seems they don’t have a transparent price policy as there are no pricing tables or something like this. They wanted to charge 50€ from me, 15 minutes later they demanded 80€. We rejected and walked there by feet as he came after us for further negotiations. It’s a tourist rip-off

The best time would be around 10am weather depending. The morning would not normally be any different to the rest of the day weather wise. Enjoy your holiday.