Belfast before ten. The Causeway by lunch.
Which coast day stops at the Dark Hedges, what a black taxi tour costs, and whether the Titanic ticket is worth a whole morning. Reviews of every tour you can book in Northern Ireland.
Four bookings a first trip to Belfast is built on.
The ship, the peace line, the sets and the open top deck. What each one costs and how long it takes.
01The shipTitanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS NomadicTimed entry to the museum on the slipway where she was built, with the tender that ferried her passengers moored outside.
02The peace lineCab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi ToursTwo hours in a cab along the Falls and the Shankill. What you hear depends on who is driving.
03The setsGame of Thrones Studio Tour Admission TicketThe studio north of the city keeps the standing sets, the costumes and the props. Admission runs on timed slots.
04The whole cityCity Sightseeing Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Bus TourThe open top bus is the cheapest way to work out where everything is on a first afternoon.
Every Causeway day leaves Belfast at nine. They differ after that.
The Giant's Causeway is an hour and a quarter up the Antrim coast and hardly anyone drives themselves. The day out is the product here, so the choice is really about what else gets fitted in around it.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Guided Trip
The guided coach dayNine hours, with the rope bridge and Dunluce on the way back.
Routed through the locationsThe same coast, taking in the Dark Hedges and Ballintoy harbour.
A car and a driverYour own timing on the coast road, priced for the whole car.
If you are off a shipBuilt around the Belfast berth, back before the gangway lifts.
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Belfast sells six kinds of day, and they barely overlap.
Basalt columns and a rope bridge. A cab through the peace line. Westeros in a beech avenue. The yard that built the ship, the city on foot, and a bowl of stew at the end of it.
Westeros is ninety minutes out of Belfast.
Winterfell is a walled estate in County Down. The Iron Islands are a harbour at Ballintoy where the fishing boats still work. The Kingsroad is an avenue of beeches a family planted in 1775 to give the house a decent approach. The standing sets are north of the city and open to the public.
What Northern Ireland actually sells most of.
Every Northern Irish review →These carry more travellers than anything else in the country. What each one is, and what it costs.
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Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Guided Trip
Review of McComb’s 9.5-hour Belfast tour to Giant’s Causeway, with castles, Dark Hedges, Bushmills, lunch, and practical tips.
From · $47
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Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS Nomadic
from $37
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Cab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi Tours
from $100
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A History of Terror – Belfast City Centre Walking Tour
from $36
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Game of Thrones and Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Tour from Belfast
from $48
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Private Black Taxi Belfast City Tour
from $110
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City Sightseeing Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
from $13
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Giants Causeway & Castles Tour from Belfast: Guided tour
from $33
The black taxi tours run along the peace line.
Drivers take you down the Falls and the Shankill, past the painted gables and the gates that are still closed at night, and talk about the street they grew up on. Most run about two hours. What you hear depends on who is driving.
What a day out in Northern Ireland costs.
Three price bands, and the whole catalogue inside them. Belfast is cheap to see. The coast takes a whole day and charges like it.
Walking tours, the open top bus, a distillery tasting, the Titanic ticket.
The full coast days, the studio tour, and most of the black taxi runs.
Private drivers, the whole car to yourself, and the long combination days.
Belfast has stopped apologising for the Titanic.
She was built at Harland and Wolff and the city has made a museum of the fact. The building stands on the old slipway at the height of the hull; the tender that carried her passengers out is still in the water beside it. The two yellow cranes behind it are the ones you can see from anywhere in Belfast.
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Four things here that need a slot before you land.
Almost nothing in Northern Ireland needs planning. These four do. They run on timed entry and small vehicles, and the good slots go weeks out.
- 01Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS NomadicEntry is by timed slot with a cap on each one, and the morning slots go first all summer.
- 02Game of Thrones Studio Tour Admission TicketThe studio sits north of the city and admission is timed. There is no turning up on spec.
- 03Game of Thrones Winterfell Locations TrekSmall groups, costumes handed out at the gate, and one departure a day outside the season.
- 04Giants Causeway, Rope Bridge, Carrickfergus Castle and Dark Hedges TourThe National Trust sells timed crossings and caps the number on the bridge, so the coast days that include it hold a slot.
Rain is the normal weather here. Plan the indoor half first.
The coast day runs whatever the sky is doing, and the Causeway in weather is arguably the better version. It is the city that needs an answer for a wet afternoon: a museum built into a slipway, a Victorian gaol, a working still, and two hours in the back of a cab.
By place, Belfast and the coast above it
Two days in Belfast, then the road north.
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