Accomodation for Irish Open - Portrush

redhill

carr6775 wrote: »

So just to be clear, you can do a 60 mile journey, on roads which have a 60/70 mph speed limit, in one hour "tops". That's fantastic, but either you have a Harrier jump jet or a defective watch.....

:rolleyes:

Yes, it is clear, crystal clear, from my house in Belfast near Fortwilliam golf club its between 55-56 miles to t'other pad in Aghermore Cresent in Portstewart, i won't give you the door number as its a small cul de sac and i don't want half the forum arriving at the end of June,
The first 36-37 miles are motorway/dual carriageway and driving at a conservtive 70mph( i have been known to cruise at 75 and touch 80 in my younger days)this will take 31 mins , the other 18-19 miles (travelled all on A roads) is comfortably done in 29 mins or less, there are a number of other pockets of dual carriageways in the 18-19 mile stretch as well.
As stated i regularly do this journey, if its totally quiet, nite time etc. i have done it in 50 mins putting the foot down. To put it bluntly my wife, who is a conservative driver can do this journey in 60 mins.

I'm a bit long in the tooth now, to be on this forum trying to start an argument but if people are going to write total crap like that post i made my original comments to then thats another matter.....:D

carr6775

Excellent!

More detail than needed but good for you!



I can understand why you would choose to do the journey at night time - not as much fun at 5.30pm!

Gophur

University of Ulster, Coleraine, are offering single en-suite rooms for £54 per night, minimum of 2 nights, for the Irish Open.

veetwin

redhill wrote: »

Yes, it is clear, crystal clear, from my house in Belfast near Fortwilliam golf club its between 55-56 miles to t'other pad in Aghermore Cresent in Portstewart, i won't give you the door number as its a small cul de sac and i don't want half the forum arriving at the end of June,
The first 36-37 miles are motorway/dual carriageway and driving at a conservtive 70mph( i have been known to cruise at 75 and touch 80 in my younger days)this will take 31 mins , the other 18-19 miles (travelled all on A roads) is comfortably done in 29 mins or less, there are a number of other pockets of dual carriageways in the 18-19 mile stretch as well.
As stated i regularly do this journey, if its totally quiet, nite time etc. i have done it in 50 mins putting the foot down. To put it bluntly my wife, who is a conservative driver can do this journey in 60 mins.

I'm a bit long in the tooth now, to be on this forum trying to start an argument but if people are going to write total crap like that post i made my original comments to then thats another matter.....:D

I'm sorry mate but I drive from Belfast to the north Antrim Coast pretty regularly. As far as I'm concerned it cannot be done in an hour. I drive pretty fast and best I could do it would be 1 hour 15 minutes with no traffic.

Google directions gives it at 1 hour 21 minutes which would be close enough. Add in regular summer traffic and Irish Open traffic during the tournament and I'd be allowing 2 hours at least from Belfast City centre to the course.

http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

limos

theres a hotel right beside belfast airport called ballyrobin lodge, looks good and has great reviews might be worth checking out.