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Planning Your Time
With a car, you can visit the Giant's Causeway, Old Bushmills Distillery, Carrick-a-Rede
Rope Bridge, and Dunluce Castle in one busy day. Call ahead to reserve the Old Bush-
mills Distillery tour, and get an early start. Arrive at the Giant's Causeway by 9:00, when
crowds are sparse. Park your car in the visitors center lot (opens at 9:00; parking is in-
cluded with your entry fee). Early birds will find that the trails are free and always open.
Spend an hour and a half scrambling over Ireland's most unique geology.
Then catch a late-morning tour of the Old Bushmills Distillery. Grab a cheap lunch
in the hospitality room afterwards. A 20-minute drive east brings you to Carrick-a-Rede,
where you can enjoy a scenic cliff-top trail hike all the way to the lofty rope bridge (one
hour round-trip, 1.5 hours if you cross the rope bridge and explore the sea stack). Hop in
your car and double back west all the way to dramatically cliff-perched Dunluce Castle for
a late-afternoon tour. From here, you're only a five-minute drive from Portrush.
