Belfast City Airport is only three miles from Belfast City Centre so you can be there within minutes of leaving the terminal building. Its full title is George Best Belfast City Airport as it was renamed in 2006 in honour of the famous footballer who played for Manchester United and Northern Ireland. Car hire in Belfast will open up the whole of the Northern Ireland to you and one of the first places many tourists head for is the Giant’s Causeway, a spectacular natural collection of granite columns that stretch out into the sea.
Belfast truly is a city that has reinvented itself in the 21st century to become a modern and vibrant place to visit. Undoubtedly its biggest tourist attraction is the iconic Titanic Visitor Experience. Designed to look like the prow of the great liner, it tells the full story from the ship’s construction in Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyards to the circumstances surrounding its sinking. Meanwhile, at Ulster Museum you will find an eclectic range of exhibits from a 2,500 year old Egyptian mummy to artefacts regained from a ship that formed part of the Spanish Armada.
