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Belfast: Full-Day Tour with Titanic Experience
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This is one of the most convenient ways to do Belfast as a day trip from Dublin - everything is taken care of, from the train tickets to the Titanic entry, so you can just show up at Connolly Station and go.
You’ll depart on the 06:50 Enterprise Express from Dublin Connolly Station. Snacks are available to purchase on board. The train crosses into Northern Ireland at Milepost 59, arriving at Belfast Central, from where you transfer by local train to Belfast Great Victoria Street Station in the heart of the city.
From there, you join the hop-on hop-off sightseeing bus for a loop around the city. This takes you through the Titanic Quarter, where your complimentary admission to the Titanic Visitors Centre is included. The building itself was constructed on the 100th anniversary of the ship’s fatal voyage and sits right at the former shipyards where Titanic was built. You’ll also drive the Falls and Shankill Roads to see the political murals that tell the story of the Troubles. There’s free time in Belfast city centre for shopping.
An optional visit to Crumlin Road Gaol - built in 1845, closed in 1996, and now an immersive visitor attraction - lets you see its historic cells and gallows. Return trains to Dublin depart at 16:00, 18:00, or 20:00 depending on your preference.
Take the 20:00 train back if you can. Belfast rewards the extra hours. The 16:00 return means you’re leaving the city at peak afternoon, before you’ve had a chance to eat properly, sink a pint, and let the place settle. The hop-on hop-off bus covers the main sights; the evening is when the city shows you something else.
The Titanic Quarter is more than the museum. Once you’ve done the Visitors Centre, the waterfront walk along the Maritime Mile is 3 km, flat, free, and runs past the SS Nomadic (Titanic’s tender, the only surviving White Star Line vessel), the old Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices, and the Glass of Thrones stained-glass windows. The Titanic Hotel is built inside those Drawing Offices and you can walk through the lobby. Harland & Wolff slid the Titanic down the slipway on 31 May 1911; the yellow Samson and Goliath cranes you can see from the museum are from the 1960s and 70s, but the dock itself is original.
St George’s Market is the better lunch than the Titanic museum café. It’s on May Street, covered, free to enter, and the Saturday market (9am to 3pm) has coffee, fresh baps, sourdough, and live music. Half the price and more of the city in it. The Friday market runs 8am to 2pm if your day falls on a Friday.
If you want the black taxi tour, sort it yourself. The hop-on hop-off bus drives the Falls and Shankill Roads, but the murals and the peace walls are a different thing at walking pace with a driver who was there. Kelly’s Cellars on Bank Street - trading since 1720 - is a five-minute walk from Great Victoria Street and a better choice for a pint than any of the tourist-facing bars near the station.