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Belfast Day Tour From Dublin: Including Titanic Experience
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This full-day tour brings you from Dublin to Belfast and back, with the Titanic Experience included in the price. It’s a proper 10-hour day that mixes the ancient and the modern - you’ll stop at Monasterboice on the way up before diving into Belfast’s world-class Titanic exhibition.
Your guide covers the history and culture of Northern Ireland as you leave Dublin behind and the countryside opens up around you.
Dublin departure. You set off from Paddywagon Tours on O’Connell Street Lower. The drive to Belfast takes about two hours - enough time to get your bearings on Northern Ireland’s history before you arrive.
Monasterboice (20 minutes). Halfway to Belfast you’ll stop at the haunting ruins of Monasterboice. A 10th-century stone round tower stands here in remarkable condition, and the hand-carved Celtic crosses - some standing for over 1,000 years - are among the finest in Ireland. Your guide explains how the monks here sought refuge from Viking raids in the area.
Titanic Belfast (approximately 120 minutes). The entrance fee (GBP 19.00) is included in your tour price. Titanic Belfast covers nine interactive galleries, with dark rides, full-scale reconstructions and immersive features. You’ll explore the shipyard, travel to the ocean floor and trace the full story of the ship in the city where it was built.
Free time in Belfast (approximately 120 minutes). You can join an optional Black Taxi tour of the Falls and Shankill Roads, taking in the political murals and the Peace Lines that separate Nationalist and Loyalist neighbourhoods. The Black Taxi fare is GBP 12.50 per person (approximately EUR 15.00) and is paid directly to your driver. Alternatively, use the time for lunch and a wander around Belfast’s downtown shopping area - the Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria Street is worth a look if you fancy a glass of Bushmills.
Return to Dublin. The group regroups around 16:00 and heads back through County Louth, arriving in Dublin at approximately 18:30.
Meeting point: Check in 5-10 minutes before departure at Paddywagon Tours, 34 O’Connell Street Lower, Dublin 1, D01 EY17.
Monasterboice is a 20-minute stop, so focus on the crosses. The site has a 10th-century round tower and several Celtic high crosses, with Muiredach’s Cross widely considered the finest of its kind in Ireland. Your guide will point out the carved biblical panels, which have survived over a thousand years in the open air. The site is compact and open ground, so the 20 minutes is enough to see the main crosses and the tower without rushing.
Monasterboice sits within the orbit of Drogheda, a few kilometres south. If you ever return to this corner of County Louth with more time, the Boyne Ramparts walk follows the south bank of the Boyne from Drogheda town toward the Battle of the Boyne site at Oldbridge, with Monasterboice just inland. The town itself has St Laurence’s Gate - the best-preserved medieval town gate in Ireland - and the shrine of Oliver Plunkett in St Peter’s Church on West Street. Scholars Townhouse on King Street is the place to eat if you stay the night.
At Belfast’s Titanic museum, the queues are longer mid-morning. The nine galleries take most visitors around two hours, which is roughly what the tour allows. The dark rides and shipyard reconstruction are the highlights that tend to slow people down in the best way. The tour price includes admission (value GBP 19.00), so you walk straight in - no need to queue at the ticket desk separately from the main entrance queue.
The Black Taxi tour is worth the extra cost if you have the time. At GBP 12.50 per person paid directly to your driver, a Black Taxi tour of the Falls and Shankill Roads and the peace line murals is a genuine add-on, not a tourist gimmick. The peace walls went up in 1969 as a temporary measure and are still standing - a black taxi driver who lived through the Troubles gives you context the museum can’t. Your guide can point you toward where to pick one up during the free time. The two hours of free time is tight if you do both the taxi tour and a proper lunch, so pick one or plan ahead.
The Crown Liquor Saloon is across from the Europa Hotel - your free time in Belfast and the return pick-up point are likely nearby. It’s a Victorian gin palace owned by the National Trust and run as a working pub, with original tilework and private snugs. Worth seeing even if you only go in for one. The Europa Hotel next door is famous for being bombed 33 times during the Troubles and never closing, which your guide will almost certainly mention.
Kelly’s Cellars is five minutes’ walk from the Crown. On Bank Street, it’s been open since 1720 - one of the oldest pubs in Belfast. If you want a quick pint somewhere without the tourist crowds before the return pickup, it’s a better shout than the Crown at peak hours.