MEET FLIP
Your Award winning driver guide
Top Rated Tour Guide for Game of Thrones Experiences, Giant’s Causeway and Private Guided Tours
Meet Flip, your guide and driver.
As a true local, Flip knows this coastline intimately. With a background in environmental science, years of volunteering with the RNLI and Coastguard Rescue Service, and professional experience as a Ranger and Guide at iconic locations such as the Giant’s Causeway UNESCO World Heritage Site and Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, he brings unrivalled local insight to every tour. This is not a scripted coach tour – it’s a journey shaped around you, led by someone who genuinely lives and breathes the landscape.
Custom Tours, Hidden Places, Real Stories
Giant Tours Ireland is built around bespoke itineraries. Whether you want a relaxed Causeway Coast day tour, scenic photography stops, coastal walks, or lesser-known locations away from the crowds, Flip designs each experience around your interests and pace.
A Local Guide with a Unique Story
Flip’s connection to Game of Thrones is part of his story — not the whole story. While working at Carrick-a-Rede during Season 6, he was invited onto the production and appeared in two episodes. Today, this insider experience adds depth for fans who wish to include filming locations as part of a wider Causeway Coast or custom tour. For non-fans, it’s simply another layer of storytelling woven into the journey.
Known affectionately by guests as the “XXL Stark”, Flip combines warmth, humour, and deep local knowledge to create tours that feel personal, relaxed, and memorable.
Trusted, Awarded, and Highly Rated
With over 100 five-star TripAdvisor reviews, Giant Tours Ireland has earned a reputation for excellence, authenticity, and outstanding customer care. Guests consistently praise the relaxed pace, hidden locations, and Flip’s ability to bring the North of Ireland to life.
Join Giant Tours Ireland and experience the Causeway Coast through the eyes of someone who truly knows it — on the road, off the beaten path, and far beyond the guidebook.
Your guide Flip Robinson was leaning his craft from a very early age actively exploring local cliffs, bays, beaches, forests, glens and islands on offer nearby with his parents and younger siblings. 1973 on Rathlin Island getting the lie of the land.
Teenage years were spent doing the same, exploring by bicycle with friends’, and then venturing off shore, learning to surf and joining a local sub aqua and sailing clubs; doing anything to get out into the elements. This keen interest in nature resulted in studying Environmental Science, developing his understanding of the amazing area’s geology and landscape formation that he is a part of.
Previous work history includes being a Wildlife Warden, a Ranger and a Visitor Experience Guide at both the Giant’s Causeway and Carrick a Rede Rope Bridge. Add to this, years of experience volunteering with the R.N.L.I. as an Inshore Lifeboat Helmsman and a member of Ballycastle’s Coastguard Search and Cliff Rescue Team.
He has a love and passion for the Causeway Coast and Glens so he enrolled in a tour guiding course, bought a lovely VW van, created a brand and has never looked back since.
Giant Tours Ireland was set up by Flip to showcase to the rest of the world how beautiful our coastline is by going off the beaten path with visitors who were more keen to avoid the more crowded tourism hotspots. But, when Game of Thrones Season 6 was in the making, Flip had the good fortune of being selected to be a body double and stand in actor on three episodes for two of the major XL characters, on ‘Oathbreaker’ and ‘The Winds of Winter’. Guests on his tours will hear the copious amounts of behind-the-scenes stories from Flip’s experience with the cast and crew. One of the characters was a much loved and Flip, in full costume, was involved in the actual scenes that led to his tragic and extremely sad end in ‘The Door’.
As a huge fan of the HBO Hit Series, Flip then developed his own Game of Thrones Private Tour so he can bring fans to the actual locations and spots where the iconic cast and talented crew worked to create the masterpiece which has enchanted people around the globe. This tour allows visitors to immerse themselves in the stunning places which have made Northern Ireland the ideal filming location.
During his tour our very own gentle giant will tell some behind the scenes stories and anecdotes from the show and will bring you to places which can’t be reached on large coach tours. His home in Ballycastle is at the heart of the many filming locations that are literally on his doorstep.
Flip has the the valuable content for his tours which has seen his visitors rate Giant Tours Ireland so highly on Google and TripAdvisor. All of the reviews of these tours are five star rated and this is something Flip is extremely proud of. It’s Flip’s authentic experiences which enables him to bring private small groups of dedicated Game of Thrones fans to see and stand on the exact locations which most visitors do not get to reach.
Flip takes many people on these tours as well as being the tour guide for Game of Thrones journalists, bloggers and film crews who visit Northern Ireland from around the world who travel to Northern Ireland specifically to immerse themselves in this captivating experience which they then share with their audiences globally.
Not only that but Flip also gets to meet incredible Game of Thrones professional fans where he shares stories and information but never spoilers!
This is a must for any Game of Thrones fans’ bucket list so make sure and tick it off. Not only can you stand on the exact spot as the actors, you will also have the chance to explore the North Coast of North of Ireland with a man who is passionate about his place.
Flip Robinson also takes visitors on the Causeway Coast and Antrim Glens Tour where visitors can take in the breathtaking scenery at the world famous Giant’s Causeway and also experience the thrill of the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge. Visitors will also travel along the equally famous and dramatic Causeway Coastal Route that was recently recommended by Lonely Planet. You can view our impressive cliffs, long, sandy beaches, meet friendly locals along the route, experience the tranquility and charm of our off-the-beaten-path North Coast including our famous Glens of Antrim from which you can look across to the landscapes of our neighbours in Scotland, on a clear day.
And of course if you are a tourist in Ireland and want something specific, Flip can also take you on a custom muti-day tour so if you have something in mind simply contact Flip and he will work with you to ensure you leave the with a great story to share and lasting memories.
Take a trip with Flip and go on a tour with Giant Tours Ireland
“Best experience I had in Ireland, and I have been on every continent except Antarctica!”TOURS ARE INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED BY GIANT TOURS IRELAND. THEY ARE NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR AFFILIATED WITH HBO OR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH ‘GAME OF THRONES’.
“Can’t say enough positive things about Flip and his wonderful tour”
“We learned so much beyond the series and we could not have asked for a better guide than in Flip”
Your Gateway to Iconic Filming Locations
The Tourist Boards partner with Flip for tour guiding and transportation services for “Game of Thrones” journalists, bloggers and film crews visiting Northern Ireland from around the world. These visitors come specifically to immerse themselves in this captivating experience and share it with global audiences. Flip has the privilege of meeting and guiding notable incredible “Game of Thrones” enthusiasts and authors, including Elio and Linda from Westeros.org , who are close personal friends’ of George R. R. Martin!
A private tour of this calibre is a definite must for any “Game of Thrones” fans’ bucket list. Ensure you visit and check it off, as you’ll have the opportunity to spend time with a ‘friendly giant of the north’, hearing behind-the-scenes stories and background details.
If you don’t know your Dragonstone from your Dothraki and you are not a fan of the biggest TV show worldwide then you can also have the chance to explore the North Coast of the island of Ireland with a local man who is passionate about his place. Flip takes his many global visitors along the world famous and dramatic Causeway Coastal Route, a road that follows the shore through the bays and coves of the Antrim Glens to the northern shoreline and Causeway Coast , as recommended as a must-see destination by Lonely Planet and National Geographic. With a man who understands the geography, geology and landscape formations. Including impressive cliffs, long, sandy beaches and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Giants Causeway. Get to meet the friendly locals along the way, experience the tranquillity and charm of the landscapes and the views of neighbouring Scotland, on a clear day.
If you’re in Northern Ireland and seeking something unique, Flip can also arrange Customised Tours or Multi Day Tours tailored to your preferences. Simply contact Flip and he will work with you to ensure you leave with a memorable experience to share.
Explore the real-world Westeros in Northern Ireland, known as “Game of Thrones” territory. Book your private and specialist tour with Flip at Giant Tours Ireland.