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Spanish Belfast And Giants Causeway Tour

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Spanish Belfast And Giants Causeway Tour

About This Tour

This full-day tour runs in Spanish throughout - your driver-guide is a native Spanish speaker, so you’ll be getting the stories and context in your own language from start to finish.

Departing from Dublin, you head north to the Giant’s Causeway and then into Belfast for a guided city tour. The route is planned so you’re never on the bus for more than 2.5 hours at a stretch, with proper stops along the way. The Giant’s Causeway visitor centre entry (valued at €14) is included in your price.

Maximum 55 people. Conducted entirely in Spanish.

What’s Included

  • Spanish-speaking driver-guide
  • Private vehicle transport throughout
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Local taxes
  • Giant’s Causeway visitor centre entry (€14 value)

What’s Not Included

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Gratuities

Itinerary

Dunluce Castle photo stop - On the way north you pull in for a photo stop at Dunluce Castle - a dramatic ruin on the Antrim coast that Game of Thrones fans will recognise as the home of the Greyjoys in the series.

Giant’s Causeway - You have around 1.5 hours to explore the prismatic rock formations that give the Giant’s Causeway its name. Your guide shares the legends behind this UNESCO World Heritage site and the natural forces that created it. The visitor centre entry is included.

Belfast city tour - A panoramic tour of Belfast by vehicle, taking in the political murals in the Catholic and Protestant working-class neighbourhoods, the Peace Wall, the prison, the courthouse, the Titanic Museum, the Albert Clock Tower (Belfast’s answer to the Leaning Tower of Pisa), and the City Hall. You’ll then have 1.5 hours of free time to explore the city at your own pace.

Meeting point: At the door of the Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham, Dublin.

Good to Know

  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals are welcome
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Group size: maximum 55 people
  • Conducted entirely in Spanish

Local Tips

The Giant’s Causeway path gets busy fast. Your guide will have the visitor centre entry sorted, but the 40,000 basalt columns themselves can fill up with visitors on the main lower path. If you have time to walk a little further around the headland - past the Shepherd’s Steps or along the cliff top - the formations thin out and the scale of the Antrim coast becomes clear. The visitor centre tells you the geology; the walk earns the view.

Dunluce Castle earns a longer look than a photo stop allows. The castle sits on a basalt rock stack above the sea, with a chasm running underneath it - a kitchen wing fell into the sea in a storm in 1639, reportedly mid-dinner. Even from the roadside you can see why it was chosen as a Game of Thrones filming location. If your guide can arrange a few extra minutes, cross to the far side for the view back toward the mainland.

In Belfast’s free time, the Cathedral Quarter is a short walk from the city centre and clusters food, bars, and street art. The political murals the tour takes in by vehicle are in the Falls Road and Shankill Road areas - if you are curious to explore those on foot during free time, a black taxi tour is the standard way locals and visitors navigate them, and your Spanish-speaking guide can point you toward a reputable operator.

The Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria Street in Belfast is worth a quick detour if you have time - it’s a Victorian gin palace owned by the National Trust and still a working pub, with original tilework, gas-lit snugs, and a pint poured properly. It’s across the road from the Europa Hotel, which was bombed 33 times during the Troubles and never closed - your guide will have the story.

The tour covers a lot of ground in 12 hours. Bring a proper lunch or pick up food at the Giant’s Causeway visitor centre café, since the Belfast free time is better spent walking the city than hunting for a restaurant. The trip back to Dublin is long - a snack for the road is sensible.

The Giant’s Causeway is three kilometres from Bushmills, the small village on the River Bush where the Old Bushmills Distillery has been making whiskey since 1784 (the licence itself dates to 1608). The narrow-gauge Giant’s Causeway and Bushmills Railway runs between the village and the stones along the old tramway bed - if the tour builds in any flexibility near the Causeway, the village is the quieter place to eat. Tartine at the Distillers Arms does modern Irish cooking from Wednesday to Sunday. Dunluce Castle, your photo stop on the route north, is on the same stretch of coast - five minutes’ drive west of Bushmills.

Nearby on IrelandMe

  • Belfast - linen, ships, the Troubles, and the recovery; the Titanic was launched here in 1911, the peace walls are still standing, and the Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria Street has been pouring pints through all of it
  • Bushmills - the village three kilometres from the Giant’s Causeway, with a distillery licence from 1608, a narrow-gauge heritage railway to the stones, and Dunluce Castle on its basalt stack a short drive west along the coast