Belfast, Northern Ireland Port Reviews

We visited titanic museum

Visited: Sep 21, 2019

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We took a private tour here and the company took us around to many areas of attraction and it was a wonderful time. We ended up eating in an authentic Irish pub.

We did a private tour. This was a very unexpected tour. Saw so many things that blew our minds. The area where the Troublesoccured, giant causeway, beautiful ocean views. Beautiful area of the country

We did the Titanic excursion. It was way too short. Got to museum and the place was packed. Only saw about a 1/2 of the museum and that was rushing through it. Would have liked a least another hour.

The excursion in Belfast was through Allens Tours and booked through getyourguide.com. This company also assured us that we would have no trouble getting back to the ship before departure, and was true to their word. The only problem was hooking up with them. We were sent plenty of information regarding arrival time before the cruise began, downloaded the tickets, and came to the meeting point as scheduled--10 minutes before the tour was to begin. The hitch came when our ship changed its arrival time to earlier. I double and triple-checked the tour information, and although we received an email stating that the bus would be at the port at 7:30, it didn't mention specifically to adjust our meeting time. We just thought they were giving plenty of time for participants to get there. Silly us. We took them at their original arrangements and showed up at 8:20 for our 8:30 tour. They had already left. Thankfully the tourist information center was on top of their game and since I had all the company information downloaded on my phone, were able to call and make arrangements for us to meet up with the group. We hurriedly caught a taxi and rushed to the last stop they were making before leaving Belfast. We missed seeing the city and hearing about its history, the partition into 2 Irelands, and the IRA, which we would have found very interesting, but we were at least able to join them for the visit to the Dark Hedges made famous by Game of Thrones, Bushnell Whiskey Distillery (oldest in the world--built in 1608), and the Giants' Causeway--a fascinating area of 40,000 interlocking columns formed by an ancient volcanic eruption. If you do this, make sure to take a coat, hat, and gloves since it was VERY cold. It's also a quite strenuous walk to and from the ocean to see the formations, but you can take a shuttle bus if you'd rather. Either way, don't miss it.

Probably one of my favorite ports. We did a cruises.com excursion as it was less expensive than the Princess version. Giants Causeway was very interesting (and very windy). We took the tram/bus as there was definitely not enough time to walk back and forth the long walk. Most of these short excursions (this one was 9 hours) are basically long rides on buses albeit interesting. It was rainy, windy and cold. They stopped for lunch on our own, however, it was a Sunday and we had very limited options in the small village we stopped.

Another beautiful day!! We explored the rope bridge and the Giants Causeway. Definitely worth the hikes.

Visited: Jul 12, 2017

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Great Causeway excursion

Visited: Sep 15, 2019

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enjoyable

Visited: Jul 12, 2019

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We loved Ghiant Causeway

Visited: Sep 24, 2019

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