Belfast International Airport, also known as Aldergrove Airport, is the largest in Northern Ireland handling around 4 million passengers each year. It is located around 15 miles to the northeast of the city which can be easily reached along the M2 motorway. If you’re thinking about hiring a car in Belfast you might also like to visit Bangor before you head for the city. It’s an attractive seaside town whose key attraction is a beautiful walled garden that’s open from April to November each year and is set in the town’s Castle Park.
Belfast is becoming a more and more popular tourist destination as an ever increasing number of attractions are opened or renovated. One of its biggest draws is the Titanic Visitor Experience in the Lagan district of the town where you can learn the full story of the ship. A more unusual visitor experience can be had at the Crumlin Road Gaol – the city’s largest prison that was opened in 1846 and was in use right up until 1996, 150 years later. There are 70 minute guided tours telling the stories of some of the 25,000 prisoners who passed through its gates.
