Things to do

Whilst only 10 miles from Belfast, Helen’s Bay is conveniently situated to the Ards Peninsula and all it has to offer and also the seaside town of Bangor. It is easily accessed from the George Best City Airport and Aldergrove International Airport and the Belfast Ferry Terminals.

Helen’s Bay golf course is within walking distance and there are 7 other challenging courses within 5 miles including Royal Belfast, Carnalea, Blackwood, Clandeboye, Bangor, Holywood and Scrabo.

If you don’t want to spoil a good walk by playing golf then the Crawfordsburn Country Park is on the doorstep. The Sea Park takes you right along the North Down Coast towards Bangor or Belfast and when you get tired then you can just hop the train and come home. The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum is well worth a visit and it is just a train journey away or less than 10 minutes by car.

Another interesting walk is up to Helen’s Tower which was designed in 1848 by William Burn in the Scottish style and construction was completed in October 1861. it was part of an ambitious landscape project by Lord Dufferin covering the five miles between the Tower and the coast at helen’s Bay. The tower was named in honour of his mother helen, who was a granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the great Irish playwright,orator and politician

In Bangor there is a great Marina and there are also fishing trips from Bangor which can be arranged.

Close by are numerous good restaurants including The Dirty Duck, Fontanas, The Bay Tree, Wine and Company and Jeffers and we are less than 3 miles from the Culloden Hotel and Clandeboye Lodge and less than a mile from the Old Inn at Crawfordsburn.