You don’t need to go on the show yourself to experience one of their missions. Instead, you can do one of the many activities that test your nerve, sharpen your senses and bring out your competitive streak – all with just the right amount of treachery. Like Boda Borg, in Lough Key Forest Park. Here, you will complete a series of 15 quests, with puzzles, riddles and problem solving – nothing like a bit of pressure to separate the Traitors from the Faithful.

If you like the look of the more physical challenges, head to Carlingford Adventure Centre, where you can try your hand at everything from zip-lining and rock climbing to laser combat and raft building. They even have the kind of competitive activities you might see on The Traitors Ireland, like Survivor, where you complete challenges inspired by real survival situations, or an outdoor version of the Crystal Maze.

If you’re after a hit of adrenaline, head to Borris in Co Carlow, where Go with the Flow has a variety of water-based activities, from white water rafting to gentler canoe trips, depending on how much of a thrill you’re after. Or make for Killary Adventure Centre in Co Galway, where you can tackle a bog obstacle course, swing through the treetops for an aerial adventure, or take on the Killary Challenge, a timed test of physical and mental endurance where only one team comes out on top…very Traitors-coded. If you prefer to keep things strictly cerebral, check out the Incognito Escape Room in Dublin, where you’ll have to solve a series of puzzles in order to escape.

Of course, you can always go and visit the actual Traitors Castle. While Slane Castle isn’t always open to the public (particularly when they are filming the show), they do offer tours by appointment and special themed events, like Afternoon Tea with a Traitorous Twist, where you can indulge in a decadent series of treats in the historic ballroom, before a familiar air of mystery and deception takes over. There are also public tours of the castle during Heritage Week, which in 2026 falls between August 5-23. Afterwards, settle your nerves next door on a tour of Slane Distillery, ending with a tasting in their cosy bar. 

If you want to fully embrace the atmosphere of The Traitors Ireland, there’s no better way than spending the night in a castle. Once darkness falls and the floodlights come on, Ireland’s historic fortresses take on an altogether more mysterious character.

Ashford Castle is perhaps the ultimate setting, with its dramatic arched windows, crenellated towers and richly decorated interiors. Settle into the sumptuous Billiards Room for a board game worthy of a secret alliance before enjoying a feast in the George V Dining Room the following morning.

For something equally atmospheric, Waterford Castle Hotel sits on its own private island just five minutes from the city centre. Inside you’ll find everything you’d hope for from a classic castle stay: rich burgundy furnishings, roaring stone fireplaces and dark wood-panelled rooms.

Meanwhile, Huntington Castle in Co Carlow offers elegant period rooms, castle apartments and gate lodges, but it’s the extraordinary dungeon that steals the show. Home to the Temple of the Goddess and an ancient holy well, it feels like the perfect backdrop for one of Siobhán McSweeney’s dramatic challenge announcements.

Over in Co Mayo, Belleek Castle combines lavish bedrooms with a wonderfully eccentric basement museum packed with medieval weaponry, Jurassic fossils and even Grace O’Malley’s four-poster bed.

Nothing says Irish castle life quite like an Irish wolfhound. At Ashford Castle, guests can accompany the resident wolfhounds on a stroll through the estate each morning. Throw on a tweed cape and you’ll feel like you’ve wandered straight onto the set of The Traitors Ireland.

At Kilkea Castle Estate, you can also walk a majestic pack of Irish wolfhounds around the grounds of one of Ireland’s oldest inhabited castles. The estate leans into the playful intrigue too, with escape rooms and a Knights Round Table that wouldn’t look out of place in the series.

If you’d rather spend time with these gentle giants without booking an overnight stay, Fiadh Irish Wolfhounds offers guided walks with its wolfhounds in spectacular locations including the Cliffs of Moher, Burren National Park and Galway city.  In the capital, you can take a wolfhound for a walk around St Stephen’s Green with The Wolfhound Experience, which also comes with a thick slice of mythology. 

If you find your eye drawn more to the food on the table than the morning debate between the Faithful and the Traitors, then you need to head for a banquet breakfast fit for royalty. Ballynahinch Castle has a lavish breakfast buffet, where you can carve your own ham and make a plate of Irish cheeses and homemade breads before taking a seat at the arched windows overlooking the Owenmore River.

In Adare Manor, breakfast is served in the magnificent Gallery, with stained glass windows, ornately carved wooden partitions and tapestries hanging from the walls. But the breakfast itself is just as special, with a generous buffet of warm pastries, charcuterie and fruit platters under the chandeliers. You can get afternoon tea in the same space, too.

Or go back in time with a trip to Victorian Tea Times in Arklow, where you can dress up in period costumes and hark back to a bygone era, with scones and pastries to hand. For a more medieval experience, head to the Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet, where you can feast like the nobility of old in a medieval banquet hall, sipping mead as singers perform.

For a similar experience without the theatrics, reserve your table at the Michelin-starred Lady Helen Restaurant at Mount Juliet Estate, for an elaborate eight-course meal served in the elegant dining room of this 260-year-old country manor. In Drogheda, Scholars Restaurant at Scholars Townhouse Hotel is a dramatic setting for dinner, with oak-panelled walls, a roaring fire and ceiling frescoes depicting the Battle of the Boyne. 

As evening falls, it’s time to gather with your fellow Faithful to decide who to banish – or, if you’re secretly a Traitor, who deserves to be ‘murdered’. Few settings are better suited to plotting your next move than a historic Irish bar steeped in atmosphere. At The Dungeon Bar at Kinnitty Castle Hotel, hidden within the castle’s thick stone foundations, you can settle onto old wooden pews beneath whitewashed walls and imagine you’re taking your place at the famous round table.

If your plotting takes you into the capital, Dublin has plenty of suitably atmospheric hideaways. The Cellar Bar, tucked beneath The Merrion in beautifully restored 18th-century wine vaults, is all old stone archways, brick-vaulted ceilings and secluded corners where you can nurse an Old Fashioned while quietly questioning everyone’s motives. Around the corner on St Stephen’s Green, 9 Below has a similarly intimate setting, with vaulted ceilings adorned with murals, exposed stone walls and an outstanding cocktail menu that’s perfect for post-round-table debriefs.

After all the emotional turmoil of living like a Traitor, you’ve earned a little restoration. Fortunately, Ireland has plenty of spas that feel as though they could have been lifted straight from the show. The Spa at Kilronan Castle Estate is hidden deep within the castle itself, where dramatic mood lighting, glittering chandeliers and a candlelit decorative pool create an atmosphere worthy of the most secretive alliance. Between the steam rooms, saunas and treatment rooms, there’s ample opportunity to unwind – or quietly plot your next tactical move.

For something that’s unmistakably Irish, immerse yourself in a traditional seaweed bath. At Voya Seaweed Baths in Strandhill, Co Sligo, freshly harvested Atlantic seaweed is added to hot saltwater in classic roll-top baths, creating a deeply relaxing experience that’s been drawing visitors for decades. Or head to Sólás na Mara in the Gaeltacht na nDéise (Waterford Gaeltacht), right on the fishing pier in Helvick, and you can practice your cúpla focal, just like the Traitors and Faithful did in the Ogham Stone challenge last season.

From mysterious castles and atmospheric bars to pulse-racing challenges and restorative spa escapes, you don’t need an invitation to The Traitors Ireland to experience its world. All you have to do is choose your side… Faithful or Traitor?