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Eight hours with a local guide in a fully licensed and insured luxury vehicle, covering the highlights of Belfast and the Antrim coast up to the Giants Causeway. The tour takes in a lot of ground and the itinerary is flexible - if something catches your interest along the way, there’s room to explore it.
Belfast Titanic Quarter - The tour starts in Belfast at the birthplace of the Titanic, where the famous ship was built. Your guide will bring the history of the shipyards and the city’s industrial past to life.
Belfast Peace Walls and Murals - You’ll visit the peace walls and murals that divide parts of the city - a vivid, honest look at what Belfast went through and how far things have come. It gives real context to the place.
Dark Hedges - One of the most photographed roads in Ireland, and a filming location used for Game of Thrones. The ancient beech trees arch overhead to striking effect.
Ballintoy Harbour - A beautiful, tucked-away harbour on the north Antrim coast, also used as a filming location for Game of Thrones.
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge - A rope bridge connecting the mainland to a small island, established hundreds of years ago by salmon fishermen. It’s weather permitting - the bridge closes in high winds - but if it’s open, it’s a memorable crossing.
Giants Causeway - Around two hours to explore the 40,000 interlocking basalt columns of the Giants Causeway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your guide will tell you about Fionn Mac Cumhaill, the legendary giant said to have built it.
Dunluce Castle - The final stop is Dunluce Castle, the medieval ruins perched dramatically at the very edge of the Antrim cliffs. Another Game of Thrones filming location, and genuinely worth seeing in its own right.
Belfast is a city that rewards a bit of time before you head up the coast. The Titanic Quarter waterfront walk - from the Lagan Weir past Titanic Belfast and the SS Nomadic - is flat, free, and takes about an hour if you want to stretch your legs before boarding. For a proper breakfast before the tour, the Saturday food market at St George’s Market on May Street is a short walk from the city centre and far better value than the cafés inside the Titanic building itself.
When you reach the Giants Causeway, your guide will handle the history - but the quieter, less-photographed section is the Shepherd’s Steps path that climbs above the columns. The view from above gives you the whole formation in one sweep before the afternoon coaches arrive. It’s worth the extra ten minutes.
The peace walls visit is one of the most affecting parts of the day. The Falls and the Shankill run parallel for about a mile in west Belfast, and the walls between them have gates that still close at night. If your group wants to understand the Troubles properly, the Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria Street - a National Trust-owned Victorian gin palace - is a good spot for a quiet drink after you return to the city, and the context your guide gives you makes everything around you more readable.
For the return journey, coming back into Belfast along the M2 as the light drops over the Lough is one of those views that stays with you.
If you’re spending the night on the Causeway Coast, Bushmills is the village three kilometres from the stones. The Old Bushmills Distillery has been on the same stretch of water since 1784 and does tours all day - book ahead in summer. The Bushmills Inn on Main Street has a gas-lit snug and peat fire, and gets you the coast after the coaches leave. It’s a better base for the Causeway than the Causeway Hotel itself if you want to walk the Shepherd’s Steps at 8am with no one else on the path.
Ballycastle is the eastern anchor of the route, about 11 miles from Bushmills. Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge is 8km west of Ballycastle, and Ballintoy Harbour sits between the two. The House of McDonnell on Castle Street has been a pub in the same family since 1766 - Grade A listed interior, trad session on Friday nights, and the bar hasn’t been redecorated since the mid-1800s. If the rope bridge closes in high winds, walk out to Fair Head instead - the clifftop loop is short and the drop is not.
The Dark Hedges, that famous stretch of arching beech trees, are 12 km by road from Ballymoney - out through Stranocum on the Bregagh Road near Armoy. Ballymoney itself is the inland market town with the train station if anyone in your group is travelling independently. Go before 9am or after 6pm if you want the hedges to yourself.