Meet your guide, a working Belfast cab driver, and hear about their personal involvement in The Troubles on this car tour. Be welcomed to Belfast and dive into this facinating political conflict from a local perspective. Explore important locations from the conflict like the Falls Road and Shankill Road. See how two communities are still separated by the looming Peace Walls. View many telling political murals. Be transported back in time by stories from those who lived through the conflict. Take the same tour as notable public figures like Anthony Bourdain, Vince Vaughn, and George Negus. Experience unique insights from the past and present. Have your burning questions about the city's troubled history answered. Discover how the city has undergone changes and find out about its future. Get recommendations from a local about where to shop, eat, drink, or do for fun.

Learn the turbulent 20th-century history of Belfast on an award-winning sightseeing tour. Visit 8 sites in the city center where some of the most tragic events of The Troubles took place. Learn what it was like to live in the city when the threat of bombs was ever-present.  Walk through the developing Cathedral Quarter, with St. Anne's Cathedral at its heart, and hear about the peace process and regeneration that has taken place in the city since the ceasefires of the early 1990s. Get a feel for the real history of the city and be transported back in time through the detailed storytelling of your local expert guide. Born in the years the Troubles began, they weave their own stories and experiences into their tour and bring the history to life. Your guides are amongst the most knowledgeable conflict historians in Northern Ireland, and the tour is recognized as being unbiased, objective and historically accurate. It is suitable for all visitors, regardless of how much or little they may already know of the troubled past.

With this tour package, you will be given a personal tour from your guide about what life was like as a teenager living in Belfast during its troubled past. Hear how the city has turned a corner and is now looking towards a brighter future. Along the way there will be plenty of opportunities for taking photos and a chance to sign your name on the world famous peacewall, that has divided the city's communities for over 45 years. See the raw side of Belfast city on this tour. Your guide will take you to all the most important areas in Belfast.

Starting at Belfast City Hall, you’ll meet your guide, a local who knows not just faces and mainstays, but the ins and outs of this treasure of  a city. From the meeting spot, you’ll proceed to walk in a small group towards the world-renowned Peace Walls. Along the way, you’ll learn about the historical and political aspects of the ‘Troubles,’ as well as the day-to-day realities of life, told in human terms based on lived experience.  The tour wouldn’t be complete without a stop at the International Wall to view the political art and thought-provoking murals before returning to Belfast City Centre. As you return to Belfast City Centre, you’ll learn about another side to Belfast, too. You’ll come to appreciate modern Belfast, vibrant and full of creativity and hope. The tour finishes at a unique church central to Irish history and within sight of Belfast City Hall. The tour is objective, factually accurate and detailed with plenty of time for questions. You will be engaged, informed and undoubtedly entertained. Most importantly, you will leave with a lasting memory of the place we call home, a place we love so much we wrote a book about it, ‘The Little Book of Belfast’. We can’t wait to welcome you here in Belfast!

Join a tour of the distillery and Thompson Graving Dock in Belfast. Explore how the Pumphouse was once famed for its feat of engineering – now home to the distillery. Experience the new spirit of Belfast's docklands. Treat yourself to a tasting of award-winning Irish spirits at the distillery. Descend 66 steps into the Thompson Graving Dock to experience the conditions and scale of the engineering project that once produced the largest ship the world had ever seen. Travel back in time as you visit the dock and its adjoining Pumphouse. Clock in, as workers did a century ago, to experience the workings of the distillery. Hear the story of Belfast’s whiskey tradition, why it disappeared, and how it has returned to the home of Titanic Distillers – the city's first working distillery in almost 90 years. Finally, return to the state-of-the-art distillery to enjoy a tasting of both award-winning Irish spirits premium Irish whiskey and award-winning Vodka. At the end of the tour, savor a whiskey or vodka-based cocktail, and take home a collector's glass.

Discover the turbulent political history of Belfast on a black taxi cab tour. Explore the Shankhill Road and the Falls Road to learn about the events of the conflict which became known as The Troubles. Stop by various murals which give each community its own distinctive character. Start with pickup from your hotel in the city and meet your guide who will escort you on a journey to two different sides of Belfast. Learn about the origins of The Troubles from your guide who lived through the conflict, and gain firsthand insight into local history. First, travel up the Shankill Road, the heart of the unionist community in the city. See a variety of murals displaying tributes to the British monarchy and Union Jack flags. Continue onto the Falls Road, located only a short distance away, and see the Irish Republican murals and Irish tricolors that adorn the homes and businesses. Hear about the key events of The Troubles, the effect it had on the citizens who lived within Belfast and beyond, and how communities are dealing with its consequences today. Pass by Crumlin Road Gaol, which housed prisoners who were members of paramilitary organizations that characterized the conflict. Arrive at the so-called "Peace Wall" that was built between 1969 and 1971, and continues to separate both communities today. Finally, with a comprehensive insight into the conflict, be dropped back at your hotel to enjoy the rest of your stay in the city.

Take a fully guided tour of the distillery located within the historic Titanic Pumphouse and learn about its eventual transformation into a working distillery. After the tour, enjoy a sensory tasting experience of premium Irish whiskey and premium Irish vodka. Journey back in time and explore the former Pumphouse which was once famed as a feat of engineering. Discover how it has now become home to the first working distillery in Belfast in almost 90 years. Hear about the stories and heritage of the site where Titanic last rested on dry ground before her maiden voyage. Walk in the footsteps of the dock workers as you journey through the history of the Pumphouse. At the end of tour, try some premium Irish whiskey and premium Irish vodka produced onsite, and pay a visit to the gift shop.

On this 3 hour walk, you will discover some of the modern street art, by international street artists, for which Belfast is now becoming known. After meeting your guide, head into the west of the city to view some of the more controversial political murals. Hear how Northern Ireland is working with locals to create peace. You will also see a project called re-imaging murals, which aims to put street art or murals up that the local communities want to share with all that pass by. You will then pass through the loyalist Shankhill area. And the to the peace gates. And view the Peace wall. Taking in the international wall and political murals on the nationalist/republican falls road area. Before desending back into the city center again finishing not far from cityhall.

Find out why you like what you like through a series of sensory experiments and incredible cocktails that use only the best locally distilled spirits. Enjoy a total sensory cocktail experience at one of Belfast's oldest buildings with four cocktails or mocktails. Do some bizarre experiments, find out what kind of taster you are, and take a trip into the Inhibitor's audiovisual world. Then, enjoy some cocktails on the rooftop that have been chosen by your emotional memory and the sensory spectrum through which you experience the world. This experience is set over three floors in one of Belfast's oldest buildings and includes four cocktails.

On our Secret Food Tour of Belfast, you'll enjoy some of the best food in Northern Ireland. Your tour starts in front of Belfast City Hall. During the tour, you will dine on a freshly prepared breakfast with the locals, relax in historic pubs, and enjoy traditional home-cooked Northern Irish dishes. We'll introduce you to our street art known worldwide. At the end of your tour, you'll have sampled some of Northern Ireland's most delicious dishes and gained a better understanding of its local culture and history.