Can I stop you there.Thinking of heading to Derry next Summer. Looking for acc recommendations.
Not arsed about being in the city centre. We want to base ourselves somewhere in or near Derry and tour around from there.
2 adults, 2 kids - self catering preferably.
Anyone got any recommendations?
Thanks for the reply. We have a place booked in Belfast now, post marching season though!Probably way too late but we stayed in Jacksons hotel in Ballybofey a few years back.
Nice hotel, nice location handy for exploring Derry, Donegal and the North plus the added advantage of being in the south during marching season.
From Belfast head up the coast road, beautiful scenery just don't stop until you hit at least Glenarm. Stayed in Cushendall myself and loved it. Lovely coast walk there and good craic at night in the sailing club. There's a waterfall in the area that was recommended but it was behind us so we left it off.Thanks for the reply. We have a place booked in Belfast now, post marching season though!
Any places to visit that you would recommend in particular?
Brilliant, thanks a million!From Belfast head up the coast road, beautiful scenery just don't stop until you hit at least Glenarm. Stayed in Cushendall myself and loved it. Lovely coast walk there and good craic at night in the sailing club. There's a waterfall in the area that was recommended but it was behind us so we left it off.
Visited caves in Cushendun which featured in Game of thrones. Drove on to Torr head for views of Scotland and on to Ballycastle from where you can get a passenger ferry to Rathlin or even Islay for a tour of the distilleries but we didn't do either.
The rest of it was the usual north coast tourist circuit of the rope bridge(need to book in advance) and the Giants Causeway.
If I went back I'd do some more game of thrones locations like the dark hedges, Portballantree? harbour and Dunluce castle.
Stayed on the coast and away from the Bible belt mostly.
No problem. On reflection I took the direct route to Larne from Belfast and skipped the staunchly loyalist areas of Carrickfergus etc at the lower end of the coast road. It's the Glenarm coast road out of Larne is worth seeing.Brilliant, thanks a million!
We watched all of GOT when our kids were babies, so I feel they should have some subliminal memories of those places ;-)
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