Attractions

Our local beaches are some of the most picturesque and best kept in Great Britain, miles of golden sand and blue water. One of our main local golf courses to our site is the Royal Portrush Golf Club, which is within ten minutes drive. There are many amusement arcades around Portrush also one of the most renouned is Barry's Amusements. There are too many pubs and restaraunts, to name them all are great in there own right though. There are lots of local nightclubs, Soi, and the world known Kelly's of Portrush, LUSH, which recently has been renovating the hotel and has opened a new restaraunt Atlantis.

Also along our coastline there are many tourist attractions such as Bushmills Distillery and in form of area's of oustanding natural beauty, from old castles, temple ruins right up to rope bridges and the world renound Giants Causeway hexagonal rocks. Carrick-a-rede rope bridge is a historic bridge which started off as a way and means in years gone by for the fishermen to reach the rock. Due to the popularity amongst tourists it has since been developed and redeveloped to increase safety as it was quite an unsafe setup then. There Are also lots of old castle's ruins,such as Dunluce Castle, Musseden Temple etc.

Local Events:

There is the motorbike road racing spectacular bike festival week leading up to the world event of the NW 200. It is really a wonderful week for the enthusiasts and the trials take place the tuesday and thursday evening prior to the main race day which is a saturday.
For moredetails go to, NW200.

Also is the Air Show, which attracts lots of tourists and locals to watch lots of varieties of air craft, old and new. There are usually, weather permitting , helicopter rides which take off from various areas around the Portrush area. The Red Arrows, always put on a spectacular stunt filled air show.

Portrush Raft Race weekend is always a funday for both old and young, spectators and compeditors. It attracts an extremely large crowd of spectators, and is supported by the RNLI, greatly.

The north west coast is also host to many other festivals, parades etc, one of the best parades with one of the largest family crowds, is the Pipe Band Championship.

For other events please visit the local 'Whats On,' page.

Northern Ireland Tourist Board Approved.