A cab through the west by ten. The Causeway by three.
Which Causeway day also takes in the rope bridge. What a black cab run costs and how long it really lasts. Whether the Studio Tour is worth the drive out to Banbridge. Reviews of every tour you can book in Northern Ireland.
The slipways, a black cab, and the road north.
1The long day northGame of Thrones and Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Tour from BelfastCauseway, Dark Hedges and the filming locations in one nine-hour run.
2The city, first-handCab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi ToursWest Belfast in a working cab, an hour and a half door to door.
3The first afternoonTitanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS NomadicTimed entry to the galleries built over the slipway. Two and a half hours.
4The cheap orientationCity Sightseeing Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Bus TourOpen-top loop past City Hall, the docks and the Titanic Quarter.
Belfast tells itself three ways: by cab, on foot, and down at the slipways.
The city is small enough to walk and complicated enough to want a guide. Three kinds of morning, what it costs to join each one, and what you actually see.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Best of Belfast Walking Tour
By black cabWest Belfast at driving pace, with the stops explained as you go.
Murals and peace wallsThe painted gables on the Falls and the Shankill, and the gates between them.
Down at the slipwaysThe drawing offices, the dock and the ship that was built on this water.
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Everything good on the Antrim coast fits inside one long day from Belfast.
Carrickfergus on the way out, the beech tunnel at Ballymoney, a rope bridge strung to a fishing rock, then forty thousand basalt columns dropping into the sea at Bushmills. Eight to nine and a half hours, and the coach does the driving.
What a day out of Belfast actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. The cheapest way to see the Causeway costs less than lunch in the Cathedral Quarter.
City walks, open-top loops, gallery tickets and the coach runs up the coast road.
Black cab hours, the Studio Tour with transport, and the full-day coast trips that add the rope bridge.
- 1Cab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi Toursfrom $100
- 2Private Black Taxi Belfast City Tourfrom $110
- 3Belfast black taxi toursfrom $55
Private drivers, small-group days with a guide to yourselves, and the trips that cross into Donegal.
Titanic Belfast, the Studio Tour and the rope bridge all run on timed slots.
Most of Northern Ireland can be arranged over breakfast. These four cannot: they sell entry by the half hour, and the coast ones close when the wind gets up.
- 01Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS NomadicEntry is sold in half-hour slots and the galleries cap each one. Weekend afternoons in summer go first.
- 02Game of Thrones Studio Tour Admission TicketThe sets sit out at Banbridge, admission is timed, and the transfer coaches from Belfast run to that timetable.
- 03Giants Causeway, Rope Bridge, Carrickfergus Castle and Dark Hedges TourCrossings at Carrick-a-Rede are timed and the bridge closes outright in high wind. There is no queueing your way on.
- 04McConnell’s Distillery Experience with TastingTastings run in small groups to a fixed schedule, and the last one of the day is usually the first to fill.
Carrickfergus, the Dark Hedges, Carrick-a-Rede, the Causeway: how the coast day runs.
Belfast
Carrickfergus
Dark Hedges
Carrick-a-Rede
BushmillsThe Causeway, the cab routes, the shipyard and Westeros.
Six things Northern Ireland is genuinely known for, each with the best day out attached. The coast ones run from Belfast; the city ones start where you are standing.
Belfast keeps its best rooms for the days the coast is unbearable.
Rain here arrives sideways and clears in twenty minutes, which is no help at all on an exposed headland. The city answer is indoors and close together: galleries over the slipway, a gaol, a distillery floor and a sound stage.
Titanic Belfast, a black cab and the road to the Causeway.
Every tour we have reviewed here →The days out more travellers take than anything else in Northern Ireland, and what earns each of them the slot.
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Titanic Belfast Entrance Ticket: Titanic Visitor Experience Including SS Nomadic
Review of Titanic Belfast, with interactive galleries, shipyard ride, SS Nomadic, practical tips, timing, price, and honest drawbacks.
From · $37
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Cab Tours Belfast Famous Black Taxi Tours
from $100
3
A History of Terror – Belfast City Centre Walking Tour
from $36
4
Game of Thrones and Giant’s Causeway Full-Day Tour from Belfast
from $48
5
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
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Belfast’s Political Mural Taxi Tour
from $48
By how long you have
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Belfast City Airport (BHD) to Belfast Accommodation – Arrival Private Transfer
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Belfast history of terror & mural 1 hr express private taxi tour
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Game of Thrones scene location inc Giants causeway from Belfast
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Experience the Antrim Coast and the Land of Giants – Private Tour
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Giants Causeway Tour From Belfast including Game of thrones sites
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Belfast & Giants Causeway Luxury Mercedes Private Tour for 6 pax
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2Day Private Tour Northern Ireland Top Sights Giant’s Causeway Belfast Adventure
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Belfast Cab Tour of Peacewalls, Murals and the Famous Titanic Slips
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