Belfast Political and Game of Thrones Tours

We at Belfast Black taxi Tours offer professional, unbiased political tours in Belfast, covering the conflict in the North of Ireland from 1969 until the 2000s.
During these tours we encourage dialogue and questions from our guests and even a friendly debate from time to time.
We also offer our North Coast Tours Giants Causeway and Game of Thrones tours which normally last up to eight hours.

What's included:

• In-person guide

What to expect:

Duration: 8 hours

Titanic Belfast

Queen's Road, 1 Olympic Way, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, BT3 9EP

Glass of Thrones Trail Map
Find all six of Belfast's Game of Thrones® stained glass windows and follow the trail from the city centre to the very place the show was filmed at Titanic Studios.

To celebrate 10 years of filming in Northern Ireland, Tourism Ireland created giant, stained glass windows depicting some of the most iconic scenes from Game of Thrones.

The windows were unveiled to coincide with the final season of the show with each one representing a different house or legacy; including the Lannisters, Baratheons, Targaryens, White Walkers and the Iron Throne. The designs include the most talked-about scenes from seasons one to seven based on fans’ online searches.

Find the Glass of Thrones installations dotted throughout Belfast city centre and Titanic Quarter, forming a trail from Waterfront Hall to Titanic Studios. Take a stroll to rediscover the most iconic moments from the saga immortalised in stained glass

30 minutes

Ballintoy Harbour

Harbour Rd, Ballintoy, BT54 6NA

Ballintoy Harbour can be discovered in the picturesque village of Ballintoy. Known as a ‘raised beach’, it is located alongside the B15 coast road, 17 miles north-east of Coleraine and five miles west of Ballycastle.
The small fishing harbour can be found at the end of a small narrow steep road down Knocksaughey Hill, which passes by the entrance to Larrybane and Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge. The village itself, which is just one kilometre from the harbour, has a charming array of small shops, two churches, including the quaint white Ballintoy Parish Church on the hill above the harbour, as well as tourist accommodation, restaurants, commercial and social facilities.

For those looking to capture a true sense of Irish rural life, it is an ideal stop over whilst touring the coastal route.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The Dark Hedges

Bregagh Road, Ballymoney, BT53 8PX

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. In fact, the iconic trees have been used as a filming location in HBO's epic series Game of Thrones®, representing the Kingsroad.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Caves of Cushendun

Cushendun

Cushendun Caves were formed over 400 million of years of extreme weather conditions. Find them just beyond the beautiful coastal village of Cushendun, walking down next to the Cave House. TV fans will be interested to know that the caves provided the background for The Stormlands in Game of Thrones.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Carrick A Rede Rope Bridge

119A Whitepark Road, Ballintoy, BT54 6LS

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge was first erected by salmon fishermen in 1755.
Connected to the cliffs by a rope bridge across the Atlantic Ocean, Carrick-a-Rede Island (home to a single building - a fisherman's cottage) is the final destination.

Suspended almost 100 ft (30 m) above sea level, the rope bridge was first erected by salmon fishermen over 250 years ago.

In 2016 Carrick-a-Rede welcomed the highest number of visitors ever to this exhilarating rope bridge experience.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Dunluce Castle

87 Dunluce Road, Co. Antrim, Portrush, BT57 8UY

In the 16th Century when Sorley Boy McDonnell came over from Scotland to consolidate McDonnell territories in both Ireland and Scotland, his main base became Dunluce Castle. Dunluce Castle is one of the most iconic monuments in Northern Ireland situated as it is rather precariously on the craggy and treacherous Antrim coast and it provides a very important chapter in the history of the McDonnells of Antrim and North East Ulster.
It was Sorley Boy’s grandson, the 2nd Earl of Antrim, and his wife who finally decided to abandon Dunluce. In 1639 as they were waiting for dinner one evening the kitchen, along with kitchen staff, fell into the sea. This is thought to have been the final straw. Although the 1st Earl of Antrim had already built a fine house at Glenarm, this was burnt down in the 1640s by a Scots Covenanter army, so even though they still visited a wing of the house, the Antrim family based itself at a house near Dunluce called Ballymagarry until Glenarm Castle was rebuilt by the 5th Earl in 1756.

Dunluce Castle still belongs to the McDonnell family, however, it is currently managed under a deed of guardianship by the Northern Irish Environment Agency.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included