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2-Day Northern Ireland Giants Causeway Private Luxury Car Tour
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This is a private two-day tour of Northern Ireland’s best spots, travelling in an air-conditioned vehicle with your own driver. Over two days you’ll cross the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, taste locally distilled whiskey, explore the Cushenden Caves, and walk the Giant’s Causeway - the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the north Antrim coast, declared in 1986 and woven through with myths and legends that go back centuries.
It’s a good choice if you want to cover a lot of ground without the hassle of driving or public transport, and do it at your own pace as a private group.
This is a private tour. It’s conducted in English and Spanish. Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller, specialised infant seats are available, and service animals are welcome. Suitable for all fitness levels.
Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge is weather-dependent - the bridge closes in high winds, and the Antrim coast gets its share. Being in a private vehicle means your driver can adjust the day’s order if conditions make one site better than another at a given hour. Ask early if the bridge is likely to be open.
Giant’s Causeway is busiest between 11am and 3pm. The private format means you can time your arrival to avoid the main coach rush. An early morning visit - before 9:30am - gives you the basalt columns in near-quiet, which is a different experience from the midday crowds. The visitor centre car park fills fast; arriving early solves that too.
The locally distilled whiskey on the itinerary is almost certainly Bushmills. The Old Bushmills Distillery on the banks of the River Bush holds the world’s oldest whiskey distilling licence, dated 1608. If the tour schedule allows, the proper distillery tour runs about an hour and includes a tasting. Ask your driver whether it’s built into the day or a stop you can add.
The Cushendun Caves are the Sea Dragon Cave from Game of Thrones (where the shadow creature was born, for fans of the series). They’re on the foreshore at the south end of Cushendun village and accessible on foot at low tide. The walk from the bridge takes five minutes; bring a torch and proper shoes - the caves are short, dark, and wet underfoot. The village around them is worth five minutes on its own terms: a cluster of whitewashed cottages designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, the same architect who later built Portmeirion in Wales, laid out in 1912 to resemble a Cornish fishing village for his client’s homesick wife.
For the Bushmills stop - book the distillery tour in advance in summer. The Old Bushmills Distillery in Bushmills holds the world’s oldest whiskey distilling licence (1608) and the proper tour runs about an hour including a tasting. In peak season it sells out by mid-morning; book online a day or two ahead. If the itinerary doesn’t include a formal tour, the village is worth a short walk - wide main street, a couple of pubs, and the Giant’s Causeway and Bushmills Railway narrow-gauge heritage line three kilometres up to the stones if the schedule allows.
Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge is on the coast east of the Causeway, closer to Ballycastle than Bushmills. Ballycastle is the town where the Glens of Antrim run out and the Causeway Coast begins - a working harbour, a ferry to Rathlin Island, and the House of McDonnell on Castle Street, a pub that’s been in the same family since 1766 and has a Grade A listed interior because nobody ever modernised it. If the itinerary has any time east of the bridge, the clifftop loop at Fair Head is a 4-5 km walk from a farm car park, with drops of 100 metres straight to the sea and views across to Rathlin and the Mull of Kintyre.