Two hours north of Belfast the cliff runs out and forty thousand basalt columns step into the sea.
Which Causeway day trip stops at Dunluce and the Dark Hedges. What an hour in a black cab through west Belfast costs. Reviews of every tour you can book in Northern Ireland.
The Causeway, the shipyard, an hour in a black cab, and Westeros.
The four bookings a first week in Northern Ireland is built around. What each one costs, and what the people who took it say.
01The coast in a dayGiant’s Causeway Day Trip from BelfastBelfast at nine, the north coast by noon, the castles and the beech avenue on the way back down.
02The Titanic morningTitanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS NomadicNine galleries standing on the slipways where the hull was laid, plus the tender ship in the dock outside.
03The city by black cabCab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi ToursThe Falls, the Shankill and the gates in the peace line, driven by someone who lives on one side of them.
04The Westeros dayGame of Thrones and Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Tour from BelfastFilming country along the Antrim coast, finishing at the stones. One long day, one bus.
Almost every Northern Irish day out finishes on the north coast.
The stones sit two hours from Belfast and hardly anyone drives themselves, because the coast road is the point and you want to look at it. Three shapes that day comes in, what it costs to board each one, and how much of it goes on the road.
Belfast first. Then the road north, and Derry after that.
A shipyard city with two hills behind it, sixty miles of coast road, the columns at Bushmills, a beech avenue that turned into a film set, and a walled city on the Foyle. Six places to start, and the best day out in each.
The days out Northern Ireland fills first.
Every review on the site →More travellers take these than anything else in the country, and what earns each one its slot.
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Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS Nomadic
Visit Titanic Belfast independently on the site where the ship was built, following ten interactive galleries from Belfast’s shipyards to the 1912 disaster. Your ticket also covers SS Nomadic, the last surviving White Star Line vessel. Allow about two and a half hours.
From · $37
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Cab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi Tours
from $100
3
Giant’s Causeway Day Trip from Belfast
from $48
4
A History of Terror – Belfast City Centre Walking Tour
from $36
5
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
7
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
Belfast keeps its recent history on the gable walls of the Falls and the Shankill.
The murals, the peace line gates and the streets either side of them account for most guided hours in this city. The tours below are the ones travellers rate highest, driven and walked by guides from the neighbourhoods they cover. Prices are per person and most run about ninety minutes.
Winterfell was County Down. The Iron Islands were a harbour at Ballintoy.
Tollymore Forest, Castle Ward, the Dark Hedges and the black basalt at Ballintoy, most of them inside an hour of Belfast. When the weather closes in, the studio at Banbridge holds the sets, the costumes and the throne indoors.
Derry is a mile of wall with a different story on every bastion.
The walls went up in 1613 and have never been taken, which is where the other name comes from. The circuit is about a mile and takes an hour at a walking pace, with the Bogside laid out below the western stretch. Guides run it in both directions and where you start changes what you hear first.
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What a day out in Northern Ireland actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. This is a cheap country to be a visitor in, and the best walking hours in Belfast and Derry barely register.
Walking hours, the walls at Derry, audio tours and the coach run out to the Causeway.
Full-day coast tours, the studio ticket with a transfer, food walks and the longer taxi tours.
- 1Cab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi Toursfrom $100
- 2Private Black Taxi Belfast City Tourfrom $110
- 3Belfast black taxi toursfrom $55
Private drivers, chauffeured coast days and the trips built around one car and one guide.
Three things that only happen in Northern Ireland.
Cliffs and old towns exist all over these islands. A basalt pavement of forty thousand columns, the slipways that launched the most famous hull ever built, and an unbroken seventeenth-century wall do not.
The Giant’s Causeway
A lava flow cooled slowly enough to crack into columns, most of them six-sided, and the Atlantic has been taking the cliff apart ever since. Roughly forty thousand of them step down into the water below Bushmills. The visitor centre sits at the top of a steep hill and the shuttle down is a separate ticket; the walk back up into a headwind is the part nobody warns you about.
- 1Giant’s Causeway Day Trip from Belfast★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,480 reviews
- 2Game of Thrones and Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Tour from Belfast★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,291 reviews
- 3Giants Causeway & Castles Tour from Belfast: Guided tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,432 reviews
Titanic Belfast
The building stands on the slipways where Titanic and Olympic were built, and its four angled hulls rise to the height of the original bows. Nine galleries run from the linen mills through the drawing offices to the launch, and the ticket takes in SS Nomadic in the dock outside, the last White Star vessel still afloat. Morning slots are quieter, especially with a cruise ship in.
- 1Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS Nomadic★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,698 reviews
- 2Giant’s Causeway and more including Titanic Experience Ticket Tour from Belfast★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 165 reviews
- 3Giant’s Causeway and Titanic Experience from Belfast Port★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 119 reviews
The Derry Walls
Built between 1613 and 1619 and never breached, which is where the city gets its second name. Seven gates, a mile of circuit and cannon still pointing out over the Bogside from the western stretch. The Guildhall and the museum sit just inside the gates, so the walls and the story below them fit into one morning.
- 1Private Guided Walking Tour in Derry City★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 635 reviews
- 2Derry City: The troubles Bogside walking tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 503 reviews
- 3Derry City: The Bloody Sunday Story – Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 186 reviews
It rains here roughly one day in three. Plan the indoor half first.
The coast is wide open and weather arrives off the Atlantic with very little notice. Everything below has a roof on it: the yard galleries, a working still house, a museum, a studio full of sets. Book one for the afternoon and let the morning decide itself.
Belfast is small enough to walk, and worth a cab for the west of it.
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The centre, the Cathedral Quarter and the yard make an easy morning on foot. West of the motorway the distances stretch out and a driver earns the fare. These three carry more travellers than anything else in the city.
The centre, in about two hours
City Hall, the entries off High Street and the Cathedral Quarter, at the pace of somebody talking. The cheapest useful hour in Belfast.
West Belfast, with a driver
The Falls Road, the Shankill Road and the gates in the peace line, stopping wherever you ask. Most run a fixed route and take four or five passengers.
The yard and SS Nomadic
Nine galleries on the slipways where the hull was laid, and the tender ship in the dock outside. Entry is timed, so the slot is chosen before you arrive.
Four Northern Irish bookings that will not wait.
Most of this country can be arranged the night before over a pint. These four run on timed slots, studio sessions and a cliff rope bridge that answers to the wind, none of which care when your flight lands.
- 01Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS NomadicEntry runs on timed slots and the morning ones go first, especially on a day with a cruise ship in the dock.
- 02Game of Thrones Studio Tour Admission TicketThe studio at Banbridge sells admission by session and closes on filming days. There is no turning up on spec.
- 03Giants Causeway, Rope Bridge, Carrickfergus Castle and Dark Hedges TourThe rope bridge is ticketed by time slot and shuts outright when the wind gets up, which on that headland is often.
- 04Cab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi ToursThe best-known drivers are booked days ahead through the summer, and a cab takes four or five people at a time.
Belfast, the coast road, the Causeway, Derry: the week almost everybody does first.
Belfast
Derry
Filming countryBy place - city, coast and border
By kind of day - cab, walk, coast or set
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