Belfast & the Titanic Experience

Experience the story of the world’s most famous liner told in one of Europe’s fastest-changing, fascination-packed cities.

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© Titanic Belfast Day One – Fly to Belfast Following your flight to Belfast, meet your tour manager at the airport and board the coach for the short transfer into the city and your hotel. Depending on the time of your arrival, the rest of the day is free for you to get your bearings and to begin to soak up the atmosphere of what is truly a city fast shaking off its past reputation and embracing a new bright future, which is reflected in its youthful outlook and vibrant redevelopments. Your friendly tour manager will be on hand to point you in the right direction throughout your stay, should you wish to head out and explore the city centre, or find a restaurant to dine in this evening.

Day Two – Included Titanic Belfast visit and

guided city tour After breakfast at your hotel, join your tour manager for a visit to the Titanic Belfast, a wonderful visitor centre set on the site where RMS Titanic was constructed a century ago. Developed as much as a tribute to the days of shipbuilding in the city as well as in commemoration of the ill-fated liner that met her untimely end on her maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic Belfast is a dramatic, innovative and exciting presentation of the real story of the famous ship. It’s housed in nine fascinating galleries in one of the most eye-catching buildings to have been built in the UK for years. Through the use of audiovisual presentation, life-size reconstructions, interactive features and even a ‘Shipyard Ride’, the ship’s conception, construction, tragic sinking and its aftermath, as well as its rediscovery in 1985, are brought vividly to life, and you’ll leave the exhibition with a real sense of the enormity as well as the human cost of one of the 20th century’s most fateful episodes. After a fascinating morning and the opportunity for lunch (payable locally) enjoy this afternoon’s tour of the city of Belfast, with its turbulent past, thriving present and hopes for the future, all brought to life by your guide. Highlights will include the major landmarks such as City Hall, Queen’s and Stormont

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Fly direct (flight upgrades available). Prices from Fly direct from these airports. Prices from

• Heathrow £1,699 • Manchester £1,749* (UK connecting flights available – call us for details)• Aberdeen £529 • Birmingham £399 • Bristol £399 • Gatwick £395 Personalise your holiday • Glasgow £419 • Heathrow £529 • Inverness £509 • Liverpool £399 • New Orleans City Tour (half day) – from £21 • Bayou & Alligators Tour (half day) – from £25• Luton £395 • Manchester £399 • Newcastle £399 • Stansted £395 • Memphis: Graceland & Sounds of the South (full day) – from £89Personalise your holiday • • Studio B & the Country Music Hall of Fame (half day) – from £45Glens of Antrim & Giant’s Causeway (full day) – from £36

Room for Sole Use from £592 Please note: *Some departures from Manchester into the USA are via Houston instead of Atlanta and will follow a slightly different itinerary which can be seen on our website. All of the main tour highlights remain included. Tour Only without flights from £300 Make your own way to the airport or your hotel. The transfer time from the airport to your hotel is approximately three hours. Room for Sole Use from £99 Please note: Prices based on a four-day tour. We also offer a five-day tour, please see our website for further details. The transfer time from the airport to your hotel is approximately 45 minutes from Belfast International airport and 20 minutes from Belfast City airport.

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ESCORTED TOUR These hugely popular tours, enjoyed by countless happy customers over the years, have truly stood the test of time.

• Visit the spectacular Titanic Belfast, a glittering, futuristic development built on the site the ship was constructed more than a century ago • Take the opportunity to join an optional tour of the beautiful Antrim Coast and to visit the extraordinary Giant’s Causeway, returning along the stunning Causeway Coastal Road, one of the UK’s most scenic roads • Enjoy a fascinating half-day guided tour of

Belfast and its major landmarks • Free time to explore Belfast, with its vibrant culture, trendy shops and cafes, and traditional pubs • Three or four nights’ carefully chosen three-star bed and buffet breakfast accommodation at the Ibis, Belfast City

Centre (upgrade hotels available for a supplement) • Return flights to Belfast, with coach travel and transfers throughout

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We had a lovely time! Our tour guide was very informative, and our driver was brilliant. Newmarket Holidays helped arrange everything and ensured it ran smoothly. John

© National Museums Northern Ireland Giant’s Causeway City Hall, Belfast

Castle, seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and a stunning sight gradually revealed from the rising approach road. During the tour you’ll also see West Belfast’s celebrated Peace Wall, the political murals of the Shankhill and Falls roads, and the ultra-modern developments of the regenerated docks area, crowned by the glittering, breathtaking Titanic Quarter. Enjoy the remainder of the day and evening at leisure, perhaps spent soaking up the atmosphere in one of the many traditional pubs in the city centre.

Day Three – At leisure, or visit the Giant’s

Causeway on an optional excursion Today is free for you to enjoy the delights of Belfast under your own steam, although many will take the opportunity to join the optional excursion to the breathtakingly scenic Antrim Coast, with its fabled Nine Glens leading to the sea, and to the extraordinary Giant’s Causeway, which is Northern Ireland’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site. This astonishing collection of more than 40,000 basalt columns, packed closely together, and acting as stepping-stones into the Atlantic from beneath the wild, windswept cliffs is a remarkable sight. Though in fact formed 60 million years ago by a volcanic explosion, the stories of the giant Finn McCool – said variously to have built the causeway as a means to woo a female giant living on a Scottish island, or to have used it as a way of escape from a pursuing enemy – are much more interesting to non-geologists, regardless of truth. Your journey back to Belfast and your hotel takes you along the Causeway Coastal Road, past yet more spectacular views. Highlights of the wonderfully scenic drive will include bustling Ballycastle at the entrance to the two northernmost glens – Glentaisie and Glenshesk – followed by Carnlough, with its picturesque harbour and then finally a drive through the colour-washed village of Glenarm and past stunning Glenariff – aptly known as the Queen of the Glens. The evening is once again free to enjoy Belfast’s lively nightlife and wide range of restaurants which will appeal to every taste and pocket, as you reflect on a wonderful break.

Day Four – Fly back to your local airport

Depending upon the time of your return flight, you may well have the chance to spend a final few hours in the city, before transferring to the airport, bringing a truly wonderful few days to an end.

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your hotel choices extend your holiday

Ibis, Belfast City Centre

HHH Bed & Breakfast from £395 Located close to the heart of the city and its shops, bars and restaurants and City Hall. Guest rooms are simple and modern, offering free Wi-Fi, tea/coffeemaking facilities and satellite TV. Hotel amenities include a 24-hour restaurant serving hot and cold snacks and light meals, and a small bar.

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Ramada by Wyndham Belfast, HHH Belfast City Centre Bed & Breakfast from £434

A few minutes’ walk from many of Belfast’s cultural attractions and welcoming bars. Hotel amenities include the SQ Bar and Grill, a lounge with free Wi-Fi, 24-hour reception and lifts. Guest rooms are contemporary in style and boast a flat-screen TV, tea/ coffee-making facilities and a telephone. Titanic Hotel, Belfast Bed & Breakfast HHHH from £500

From the stunning Drawing Bar with its threestorey high barrel-vaulted ceiling, to the Art Deco maritime inspired décor featured throughout and memorabilia dating back to the Golden Age of ocean travel, the hotel offers a unique and truly unforgettable experience. One-night extension from £90

Stay an extra night in Belfast and visit the infamous Crumlin Road Gaol on Day Four, accompanied by a Matron’s High Tea. Your final afternoon is at leisure to explore more of the city under your own steam.

Crumlin Road Gaol