Newcastle Airport is a little under six miles from Newcastle city centre and is easily reached on the A1 road. Hiring a car from Newcastle Airport won’t just make it easy to reach the city, it will open up the whole beautiful area of Northumberland to you. Here you’ll be able to discover long sandy beaches overlooked by spectacular castles such as Bamburgh and explore border towns like Berwick-on-Tweed. There is also Hadrian’s Wall to visit - built by the Romans to guard against invading Scots from north of the border and many Roman relics can still be found there today.
Newcastle has a great many attractions including art galleries, museums and even Europe’s largest covered shopping complex at the Metro Centre – all accessible with car hire from Newcastle Airport. One of Newcastle’s oldest galleries is the Laing which was first established in 1901 by a wealthy industrialist Alexander Laing as a gift to the city. Today, its collection includes works by some of the world’s greatest artists including Henry Moore, Paul Gauguin and William Holman Hunt. At The Discovery Museum you can learn all about the history of Newcastle from Roman times right up to the modern day as well as seeing many examples from its long industrial past.
