Tours

Belfast Highlights

Half Day Private Driven Tour

Explore the main attractions of the capital of Northern Ireland.

This half day tour is a great introduction to Belfast and allows you to visit all Belfast’s top visual sites. Highlights of this driven tour of Belfast includes Central Belfast, with our magnificent City Hall, St George’s Market, the Albert Clock, and The Big Fish.

A drive past Queens University on to West Belfast to sign the Peace Wall, and learn about our troubled past, yet see how Belfast today is a vibrant city that people choose to live in and tourists love to visit,

We stop at Belfast Castle, nestled in the foothills of Cavehill, where we take a walk in the gardens, and stop at the café, and take in the views.

Drive up the one-mile-long road to Stormont, our Parliament Buildings, for a great photo opportunity.

At Titanic Building walk around the slipways where Titanic was built.

Afterwards, you can stay in the city longer or visit the Titanic Experience. Your driver can recommend places to eat and visit.

Pick up is from your arrival port, cruise ship or hotel, by private car.

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Causeway Coast

Full Day Private Driven Tour

Giant’s Causeway and North Antrim Coast drive from Belfast.

This is a full day tour, visiting the World-famous Giant’s Causeway UNESCO World Heritage site, with its breath-taking cliff top views.

This is a coast rich in amazing cliff top castles and Game of Thrones filming sites.

Depending on your time restraints and interests, our choice of places to visit may include Dunluce Castle, the picturesque Ballintoy harbour, the magnificent tunnel of beech trees of The Dark Hedges - famous in the Game of Thrones filming, Bushmills Distillery, and for those with a good head for heights - a walk over the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge,

Our lunch or on our return journey I may include a personal place of fun and interest!

This day can be designed around your choices, eg. active walking or less so, or if you are a Game of Thrones fan, we can include seeing some of the special filming sites, and of course most importantly around our unpredictable weather!

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Ards Peninsula

Full/Half Day Private Driven Tour from Belfast

Travel off the beaten track, only 30 minutes drive from Belfast

This is my home territory that I love to show off and share.

We follow less trodden routes along the Ards Peninsula, and become immersed in Irish history, heritage and crafts.

Depending on your interests, time restraints and your choices, the following are just some of our experiences and visits on offer.

Experience what it was like to work as a miller in the nineteenth century, at the only working windmill left in Northern Ireland. Take a walk through time with the farmer, the kilnsman and the miller, and climb the windmill to discover the incredible precision engineering of the inner workings of the mill.

Meet Christine at her cottage and learn Irish traditional craft skills of spinning wool, weaving and knitting.

Lunch in one of Ireland’s oldest pubs.

The extended full day tour also includes a visit to the grand estate of Mount Stewart house, and its outstanding gardens, and the quaint village of Greyabbey with its specialist antique shops and a Cistercian monastery dating from 1193.

Or if you prefer to hike on some rural and coastal walks and experience nature, we can guide you along some beautiful trails, steeped in history in this designated Area of Outstanding Beauty.

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Down Delights

Full/Half Day Private Driven Tour from Belfast

Travel off the beaten track, only 30 minutes from Belfast, to find hidden gems in the green rolling hills of County Down.

Follow along the east coast of Strangford Lough though the quaint village of Killyleagh with its fairy tale castle dating back to Norman times. Visit the grave of St Patrick at Downe Cathedral. Walk up to the Milenium Stone to a view over many of Strangford’s 365 islands and pladdies

Drive over a causeway to Mahee Island, to visit Nendrum Monastic site, a Christian Monastry, with the world’s oldest excavated tide mill, dating from 787AD.

There are a variety of choices of gorgeous and unique lunch and coffee stops.

As well as a variety of more choices of places to visit whether you want to follow in the steps of St Patrick or are a Game of Thrones fan, a sea bird enthusiast or castle enthusiast!

There is also the option, if available, to join a sea safari on the lough. This is a lot of fun.

Or to visit some wonderful local characters and their local craft skills.

This, as all my tours are, is customizable to your own interests and enquiring minds!

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Belfast Walking Tour

2/3 Hour Private Walking Tour

This is an historic walking tour of central Belfast, seeing key points of interest and learning its history.

We start our walking tour at Belfast’s City Hall and learn how Belfast grew from a small trading town into a world leading city in Victorian times. Learn about the creators of the Titanic, and about the people who influenced the growth of our city, particularly in Linen and Ship Building, and the legacy they left behind.

We stand where many Irish said their goodbyes and emigrated from. We walk through one of the entries to the old dockside, learn about the United Irishmen, and remember the Belfast Blitz over Easter weekend in 1941.

Walk down cobbled streets into Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter and view some of our fabulous Street Art.

This includes a coffee/drink stop in an old city bar.

This is a walking tour, but we can arrange pick up from your hotel, arrival port, or cruise ship.

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Genealogy Tours

Full Day Private Tour

Trace your ancestral homeland - The most bespoke of Tours!

This is a bespoke tour which will assist you in finding your ancestral home in Ulster.

Based on information supplied by you, we will:

Drive to relevant townlands, villages, museums, churches and graveyards.
Visit your ancestral home area, and introduce you to relevant people still living there.
Identify possible areas for further research eg. PRONI (Public Records Office NI).

We can facilitate meeting local historians who may have more detailed information on your roots and ancestral homeland.

This tour will have added costs dependant on prior research in order to customise the tour.

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