Belfast Bus and Taxi Tours

Belfast City Sightseeing runs an open-top bus tour through Belfast. The Belfast City Tour (£12.50) covers the City Hall, Albert Clock, Shipyard, Titanic Quarter, Shankill Road, peace line, and Falls Road, and goes past the Grand Opera House on Great Victoria Street. Tours leave Castle Place (opposite McDonald's) daily on the hour 10-4 October-February, and every 30 minutes March-September, and tickets are valid all day on a hop-on, hop-off basis. The entire route, without stops, takes about 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Allens Tours (028/9091-5613. www.allenstours.co.uk.)

Belfast City Sightseeing (028/9032-1321. www.belfastcitysightseeing.com.)

McComb's Coach Travel (22 Donegall Rd., Central District, Belfast, BT12 5JN. 028/9031-5333. www.mccombscoaches.com.)

Translink (028/9066-6630. www.translink.co.uk.)

Taxi Tours

More than 10 companies operate taxi tours of Belfast. Belfast City Black Taxi Tours do 75-minute tours in a London-style black taxi of either Loyalist or Nationalist sights. The cost is £25 for up to two people, £30 for three people, and £33 for four people. Black Taxi Tours provide a similar itinerary at £25 per taxi for one or two people and £8 per person after that. The Loyalist tours leave from North Street or Bridge Street and prices can vary depending on pick-up point; the Nationalist Tours pick you up at your hotel.

Contacts

Belfast City Black Taxi Tours (028/9030-1832. www.belfastcityblacktaxitours.com.)

Black Taxi Tours (028/9064-2264. www.belfasttours.com.)

Taxi Traks (028/9031-5777. www.taxitrax.com.)