# Things to do Family Days Out

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Places that hold children's attention for more than twenty minutes, with notes on buggy access, toilets and how long you will realistically last.

## Places

### The Giant's Causeway

Forty thousand basalt columns where the Antrim plateau meets the sea, and Northern Ireland's only UNESCO World Heritage Site. The thing almost nobody tells you: walking down to the stones is free. What the National Trust charges for is the visitor centre and its car park.

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Cost: The stones themselves are free. The causeway sits on a public right of way and you can walk down to it without paying anyone. The National Trust charges for its visitor centre experience, and its car park is tied to that ticket - which is the part people mistake for an entry fee. Trust members go in free. | How long: Two hours is comfortable for the walk down, time on the stones and the walk back. Half a day if you take the clifftop route as well. | Parking: The National Trust car park is the obvious one and is bundled with the visitor centre ticket. If you only want the stones, park in Bushmills or at one of the small pay-and-display options nearby and walk in. Do not park on the Causeway Road verges - it is a busy coach route and you will be moved on.

### Titanic Belfast

A nine-gallery museum standing on the slipways where Titanic was actually built. Entirely indoors, which makes it the default answer to a wet day in Belfast - and the free thing outside it is the part most visitors walk straight past.

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Cost: Paid admission, and one of the more expensive days out in Northern Ireland. The ticket includes SS Nomadic, the last surviving White Star Line ship, berthed a few minutes' walk away - a good many people never use that part of the ticket, which is a waste of what they have already paid for. | How long: Two to three hours for the galleries, plus another forty minutes if you do SS Nomadic properly. | Parking: A large pay car park beside the building, and it is the easy option. It is often cheaper and barely slower to leave the car in the city centre and take the Glider, particularly at weekends.