Our Tour Guides
Meet a few of our 34 tours guides!
MEAVE
Taste & Tour Guide Since 2016.
Leads our Belfast Food Tour & Private Tours.
Hailing from Kildare, Meave has lived up here for nearly 20 years and has led over 1,000 tours for us!!
Meave has a great passion for learning and holds the highest tour guide accreditation available – she even lectures on the topic.
You’ll find Meave sporting a fedora and genuinely just being effortlessly cool.
“Meave was an excellent tour guide, she was full of interesting facts, great craic, and plenty of jokes!”
PAUL
Taste & Tour Guide Since 2020.
Leads our City Cocktail Circuit, Gin Jaunt, Whiskey Walk & Private Tours.
Paul is from Waringstown, but don’t hold it against him.
He spent over 20 years working in hospitality before donning a suit and joining the Civil Service.
Paul shakes a mean cocktail, is a big Manchester United fan (for his sins) and loves a pint of Guinness in The Garrick.
“Our guide Paul was a mine of information and such good fun”
OLIVIA
Taste & Tour Guide Since 2018.
Leads our Belfast Food Tour, Holywood Food Tour & Private Tours.
Olivia’s hometown is Holywood and her other half is Ali (see below!).
She’s all things marketing for a Belfast 5 star hotel by day and loves eating out, sipping cocktails and travelling the rest of the time.
ALWAYS full of energy, bubbly and just a brill person to be around.
“Olivia is so genuine and personable, a great guide who made sure we all had the best time possible.”
ALI
Taste & Tour Guide Since 2017.
Leads our Belfast Food Tour, Gin Jaunt, City Cocktail Circuit, Latin Spirit Safari, Whiskey Walk & Private Tours.
Ali is Belfast born and has been part of the fabric of the hospitality scene in Belfast for over 20 years.
When he’s not wining and dining Olivia, he’s caring for people as an orthopaedic sister or sipping a cider on his boat!
You’ll often find Ali having a wee drink with groups afterwards because you just can’t help but be friends with him.
“Our guide Ali was amazing he kept us all entertained!”
PHIL 2
Taste & Tour Guide since 2022
Leads our Wine Wander, City Cocktail Circuit, Whiskey Walk, Gin Jaunt & Private Tours.
Phil 2’s main focus is The Spirit Circle, but he likes to pop on his shorts and take groups around Belfast on tours too!
He has attained WSET Level 2 and is a little wine obsessed, in a good way – promise.
His other passion is cars, just ask him about his beloved BMW Frank the Tank!
“Phil was super passionate about all things wine and Belfast and a great tour guide!”
RAE
Taste & Tour Guide since 2021
Leads our Belfast Food Tour, 5 Stop Brunch & Private Tours.
Rae, Rach, Rachael, Kathleen – the tour guide of many names (and many accents!) who speaks French and Spanish.
When Rae isn’t tour guiding she’s with a different kind of tour – on stage as the wicked witch on a panto!
Rae has lived all over the place, but has settled back in Belfast and is very proud of how the city has transformed.
“Our tour guide Rae (Rachael) was amazing, she was so knowledgeable and delivered the tour in a really engaging, humorous, and informative way. “