Category: Activities

Portrush

This walking map has details of the many different walking routes around the surrounding areas of Portrush. The distance and sections highlight different areas around the North Coast that consist of beautiful scenery and locations to visit on the way. 

Portrush, 5min walk

Portrush Coastal Zone is the Department of the Environment’s main coastal and marine centre. Discovery pools and tanks along with displays and activities give visitors the chance to learn more about Northern Ireland’s marine and coastal wildlife and heritage.

At the rear of the centre is a viewing platform which affords excellent views towards the sea. From here dolphins, seals and harbour porpoises can sometimes be seen.

Derry, 20min drive

Welcome to Game of Thrones Tours! The epic HBO series is filmed in stunningly beautiful places, most of which are remote and hard to find. We trek you deep into old growth forests, along wild sea cliffs, across rocky beaches, into caves and crumbling medieval ruins. We have Stark and Iron Born cloaks, swords, shields and banners available for use, at no extra cost. So choose Game of Thrones Tours, where every day is a Westeros day!

Although this is a coach tour, please note that this coach tour also includes two long walks, one in the morning at Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge (2kms), the other in the afternoon at the Giant’s Causeway (2kms). Accordingly, this tour is not recommended for anyone with limited mobility.

Portrush, 10min walk

Royal Portrush Golf Club is home to one of the best and most challenging links golf courses in the world, the Dunluce Links, and the hidden gem, the Valley Links. The only club in Ireland to have hosted The Open Championship, Royal Portrush is a members club which welcomes visitors all year round to face the challenges of its courses and to brave the testing conditions.  The former is one of the courses on the Open Championship rota and will next host the tournament in 2019.

Portrush Strand, 5min walk

Surfing Packages for beginners and advanced, all ages welcome. We believe surfing is a sport for absolutely everybody no matter age, shape, size or fitness. Our classes are suitable for kids from five years and upwards, there is no upper age limit, the record is a 77-year-old and we hope we can break that record this year!

Alive is the longest running surf school in Northern Ireland and we pride ourselves on our philosophy – ‘be safe and have fun’.

Portrush, 5min walk

Barry’s Amusements is the largest theme park in Northern Ireland. Barrys Amusements offers out of doors but largely under cover fun with options ranged across the board, so you should find something to amuse everyone, whatever their age!

There are 6 rides aimed at younger children including a miniature caterpillar train, wet roller coaster and towering helter-skelter slide. There are also mini dodgems, an express train through a land of make-believe, and Monte Carlo, which has a good variety of brightly coloured rides to enjoy.

Bushmills, 10min drive

Bushmills Irish Whiskey is made at Ireland’s oldest working distillery in County Antrim, Northern Ireland on the beautiful North Coast. The original grant to distil was signed in 1608 by King James 1st and there has been distillation on this site since then, using the unique water from their own stream and Irish barley.

The Bushmills Brand Experience encompasses guided tours around a working distillery with all the associated sights and smells, tutored whiskey tastings, a specialist whiskey shop and a well-stocked gift shop with exclusive Bushmills merchandise.