Cruise Ship Excursions

Our Special Excursions are from Belfast to the famous Giants Causeway & Beyond

The beautiful Antrim Coast is awash with breath taking views of the Atlantic Ocean.

We will take you through the Glens of Antrim and its beautiful scenery before arriving at the popular Giants Causeway.

We will give you the opportunity to visit the most popular sites of outstanding heritage and beauty and stop at the famous landmarks ranging from Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge to Dunluce Castle and visit other castle ruins along the way.

Do you like Whisky? I hope so because there is also the option to visit the Bushmills Distillery while on our Coastal Tours.

Featured Tours

Giant's Causeway

Coastal Tours

Full Days Excursions

Visit the most popular sites of outstanding heritage and beauty. We will also stop at the famous landmarks of the Game of Thrones TV series including The Dark Hedges (Kings Road), Carrick-a-Rede, Ballintoy Harbour and Dunluce Castle, and other castle ruins along the way.

Oh! and did I mention stopping at the Bushmills Distillery. (Optional)

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Belfast Peace Wall

Mural Tours

Half Day Tour

Why not try our famous murals tour. Starting at your pickup point. We will endeavor to give you as much information as we can and share with you our experiences of the troubles.

We will take you to the Shankill Road and the Falls Road to two great communities on either side of the famous peace wall.

Take stacks of photos, write on the wall and learn about its history.

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Titanic Museum Belfast

Titanic and Castles

Half Day Tour

Experience the beauty and heritage of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Here at Belfast Private Tours we can arrange both full-day and half-day tours.

We will take you to the Titanic Museum for your 2 hour tour of the wonderful Titanic Building.
We pick you back up and take you onward to Carrickfergus Castle.
Next stop is to Belfast Castle were you will indulge fine dining for lunch and afterwards taking a leisurely strolling through the beautiful grounds of Belfast Castle.

We collect you from your Ship/Hotel and drop you back at the end of the tour.

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Game of Thrones Studio Tour

Banbridge Studios

Prepare to step behind the scenes of The Seven Kingdoms and beyond. Prepare to experience the world of Game of Thrones like never before...

Delve into the world behind the screen, from the earliest concepts and designs to the jaw-dropping final cuts. Learn from the award-winning artists who helped bring it all to life.

FROM SCRIPT.....
TO SCREEN.........
Your journey through the making of Game of Thrones begins at The Wall in the vast and frozen North and all that lies in the darkness beyond............

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Giants Causeway

Stepping Stones

According to legend, the columns are the remains of a causeway built by a giant. The story goes that the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology, was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Fionn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet.

The Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge was first erected by salmon fishermen over 200 years ago and is suspended almost 100 ft (30 m) above sea level. It is now a major tourist attraction on the North Coast.

Trace the line of coast over windswept grasslands and winding rocky paths to the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge.

As you cross the bridge, you’ll get a bird’s-eye view of the clear green water and ancient caverns far below.

Will you dare to look down!

Dark Hedges

This beautiful avenue of beech trees was planted by the Stuart family in the eighteenth century.

It was intended as a compelling landscape feature to impress visitors as they approached the entrance to their Georgian mansion, Gracehill House. Two centuries later, the trees remain a magnificent sight and have become one of the most photographed natural phenomena in Northern Ireland.

GoT Featured Scene: Season 2, Episode 1: The North Remembers - On the King's Road, Arya Stark has escaped from King’s Landing, disguised as a boy. She is with Yoren, Gendry, Hot Pie and others who are to join the Night’s Watch, in a cart, travelling north on the Kingsroad.

Dark Hedges Northern Ireland Belfast Private Tours

Ballintoy Harbour

Ballintoy Harbour can be discovered in the picturesque village of Ballintoy.

The small fishing harbour can be found at the end of a small narrow steep road through the middle of the village which includes the quaint white Ballintoy Parish Church on the hill above the harbour.

GoT Featured Scene: This picturesque coastal nook is where Theon Greyjoy arrives back in the Iron Islands and where he later admires his ship, the Sea Bitch. This is also where he first meets his sister Yara.

Bushmills Distillery

Bushmills Distillery is the oldest working distillery in Ireland. In 1608 King James 1st, granted Sir Thomas Phil the Licence.

In 1805 the Old Bushmills building was destroyed by a fire.

The only time it stopped distilling was when the Allied troops were billeted during World War II from 1939 to 1945. In 2008 it celebrated 400 years

The Bank of Ireland put the picture on its new Banknotes.

IT STILL DISTILLING TODAY - BOOK A TOUR!

Titanic Museum

On 31 May 1911, The Titanic slid down the Slipway at the Queen’s Yard of Harland and Wolff and settled on the waters of the Belfast Lough.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.

The largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, the RMS Titanic was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

Belfast Castle

Belfast Castle is set on the slopes of Cavehill Country Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland in a prominent position 400 feet (120 m) above sea level. Its location provides unobstructed views of the city of Belfast and Belfast Lough. The original Belfast Castle, built in the late 12th century by the Normans, was located in the town itself, flanked by the modern-day High Street, Castle Place and Donegall Place in what is now Belfast city centre.

It was his son, The 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, who presented the castle to the City of Belfast in 1934. In 1978, Belfast City Council began a major refurbishment over a period of ten years at a cost of over two million pounds. The architect was the Hewitt and Haslam Partnership. The building officially re-opened to the public on 11 November 1988

Carrickfergus Castle

Carrickfergus Castle is a Norman castle in Northern Ireland, situated in the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, on the northern shore of Belfast Lough.

Besieged in turn by the Scottish, native Irish, English and French, the castle played an important military role until 1928 and remains one of the best-preserved medieval structures in Northern Ireland.

It was strategically useful, with 3/4 of the castle perimeter surrounded by water (although in modern times only 1/3 is surrounded by water due to land reclamation).

Marshal Schomberg besieged and took the castle in the week-long Siege of Carrickfergus in 1689.

This Castle was also used as a landing point for King William III on 14 June 1690 as he proceeded to defeat King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Game of Thrones Studio Tour

Discover The Detail
Immerse yourself in the expansive collection of costumes, props, sets and weapons, seeing first-hand the exquisite craftsmanship and skills that turned fiction into reality.

Setting The Scene
Step behind the scenes and explore everything from the iconic real-life sets to the final layers of visual effects which made Game of Thrones a favourite with viewers across the realm.

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