Shore Excursion: Giants Causeway Tour From Belfast Port
Description
Realizing time is limited and the importance of arriving back to Belfast port on time for departure. Our tours depart earlier and travel straight to the Giants Causeway avoiding the crowds and the queues. This allows time to see Belfast City along with Giants Causeway and makes for a more relaxed tour. Our local tour guide’s commentary provides insider insight into life along the Antrim Coast.
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Itinerary
The Giants Causeway is a World Heritage site and is said to have been created as a result of a Volcanic Eruption over 60 million years ago.Legend has it that the Causeway was built by Finn Mc Cool a local giant who was over 12 feet tall.
We will stop in this Quaint little coastal town for approx 1 hour for lunch.Where there are many choices for lunch with local traditional pubs serving traditional Irish food at reasonable prices,or if you prefer a snack and a walk along the beach with its stunning scenery.
We will make a stop to let you see Dunluce Castle. This iconic ruin bears witness to a long and tumultuous history. First built on the dramatic coastal cliffs of north County Antrim by the MacQuillan family around 1500, the earliest written record of the castle was in 1513.
On our return to Belfast we will travel through the nine Glens of Antrim and your guide will tell you stories and Folklore from these amazing and magical Glens.
Our Journey will also take us along the coast road said to be one of the most scenic drives in Europe an area of outstanding natural beauty with amazing views of both land and sea.
On returning to Belfast we will take you around Belfast and its attractions.We will visit as many places as possible (time permitting) Falls road,Wall murals,Peace Walls.Shankil road etc.
We will visit the view point at Portaneevy with it spectacular views of Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge and Rathlin Island which is just six miles of the coast at Ballycastle.
Cushendall a quaint little coastal town at the foot of the "table mountain, with its historical Curfew Tower built in 1817. We stop for a 15 min comfort break.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
- Collapsible wheelchairs with removable wheels can be accommodated providing the passenger is accompanied by someone who can assist them board and disembark
- Only available for passengers arriving into Belfast port on a Cruise Ship
Reviews(699)
The picture for the excursion shows the rope bridge but you are not near that when you are dropped off. You have about an hour at the causeway which is just about enough time to walk down, or take the bus, and look around at the beautiful rocks and coastline.
Bad guide a lot a of talking about herself no interessant information. All nice prescribed villages were stoppen at far out from the these village. Ended up obligated at a hotel for lunch instead of the prescribed pups in village. Not worth.
Hello Henri Thank you for your feedback Sorry to hear you do not rate Amanda as a tour guide To say we are shocked to hear someone thought Amanda was a bad guide is an understatement. Amanda has worked with us for 12 years and has never received a review below 4 stars. Amanda recieved 13& 5 star reviews from the same tour on both tripadvisor and Google reviews, have a look at our previous review from the same tour. Sorry to hear you were disappointed about the lunch. At peak season we have to avail of many different places to eat in Ballycastle that can cater for groups depending on availability at the time. Ballycastle is one of the larger towns on the North coast with a population of 4,600 and its attraction is being small and quaint. Regards
Our tour was through Odyssey Tours. Amanda (Guide) and John (Driver) were outstanding. I would recommend Odyssey Tours for seeing the Giants Causeway. We had visited the Giants Causeway two years ago as an excursion through the cruise ship we were on. With Odyssey we saw so much more including a trip through the the part of Belfast with the wall. It was very moving. We appreciated seing this side of Belfast. Thank you.
We headed to Dunluce castle firat for a quick picture stop, then to Giants Causeway. We had a good amount of time there and then stopped in a cute little town for lunch and then another picture stop at a bridge, then drove through some pretty places including the Atrium forest area, the red arch, by 3 caves, and then a driving tour around the outskirts of central Belfast. Ours was a little quicker on some.of the stops because our cruise ship was leaving at 4:30. They got us back to the boat a little after 3pm. The tour guide was great and had a lot of good information and was entertaining.
Excellent trip . Pick up from port in a small coach waiting for us as we disembarked . Brilliant trip, driver full of information. Missed all the other caoches Easy to book direct and it was 1/3 of the cost of P and O indentical trip .
The drive for this, the views, amazing! Your guide was wonderful, I appreciated him. Wished we had a little more time for lunch and wandering is all.
Wonderful tour. Amanda(tour guide) & John (driver)were awesome. Amanda was very knowledgeable, knows the history of the area well and very entertaining. John played Irish music about a rooster! That was delightful. Giant causeway was awesome! Shows you God's wonder, beauty of creation! We drove through the beautiful Irish countryside. Lots of sheeps, cows grazing on the green pasture, green meadows & rolling hills. What an awesome site to behold! I just wish we were able to cross the Carrick- a- rig ? bridge. Just saw it from a distance. They said tour buses were no longer allowed to get close to the site. Belfast was ok. I felt sad when Amanda was telling us the history of political/religious divide, that still manifest itself in the city. Overall this a wonderful excursion. They were on time. There was plenty of time back to the ship. The tour bus was very comfortable with restroom on board. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone. Money worth spent.
This tour was truly one of the highlights of our trip. Amanda was extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and a pleasure to spend the day with. I highly recommend skipping the cruise ship excursion and booking this tour instead. We were picked up right at the dock and dropped back off on time after the tour. You will not regret booking your Giant’s Causeway tour with this company.
It was a wonderful excursion. Our driver Stephen was so knowledgeable and knew how to get us to the sight seeing before the tour buses arrived kudos for that!!!
Total misrepresentation. You cannot cross the rope footbridge at all anymore. Even so, the vendor and Viator knowingly use the picture and make you think that’s part of the tour! If you want to spend most of your day in a coach, with brief hop offs to use the bathroom and run through a small town unprepared for lunch crowds, this is your tour.
Hello Michael Thank you for your review Sorry to hear you misunderstood the itinerary. We have a photo of the Bridge because we stop at a view point to see the bridge, we do not state you can cross the Bridge. All tour buses have been denied access to the bridge from 2023. While we do our very best to avoid crowds on our tours, this is not always possible at peak season when visiting a world heritage site. Sorry to hear you were disappointed, never nice to hear Regards
