Our Club memberships with British Airways have different annual renewal dates and that can make it a little complicated when we're trying to retain status and this year Ian needed 45 points more to retain his Silver. So we decided to do a quick trip to the cheapest place we could fly to and secure the necessary points and up came Belfast which suited us well as neither of us had visited Northern Ireland before. Ian was to fly there business class and return economy and I'd do both legs, grudgingly, in economy.
I'd always wanted to visit the Giant's Causeway so that was a must and we also thought if we stayed in Londonderry one night we could cross the border into the Republic (although it's already ticked off as Ian did a golfing trip there). So a little bit of a plan came together and we booked 1 night stays in Belfast, Londonderry and in the appropriately named Causeway Hotel. George Best City Airport is only about 15 mins from the city centre so it was an easy bus ride once we'd landed.