The Kitchen Counter Is Already Laid Out for You
Come down for breakfast at The Avenue Belfast and nobody hands you a menu. The counter is already laid out: a wholemeal loaf and a labelled basket of gluten-free bread beside it, cereal in clear tubs, boxed eggs in the fridge, juice, spreads, a bowl of fruit and a coffee machine at the end of the run, under a printed note asking you to help yourself and wash up after. It costs nothing extra, it is there at whatever hour you come down, and it is the single thing guests mention most often about staying here.
Pick it for a clean, good-value self-catering base ten minutes by taxi from the City Airport, where the kitchen is genuinely stocked and the parking outside is free. Skip it if you need a lift, a large room, or a cooked Ulster fry carried to your table, because the stairs are narrow and breakfast is strictly help-yourself.
The rest follows from that. Free on-street parking runs the length of Templemore Avenue and the Glider into town stops at the top of the avenue, so you can leave the car and still be at City Hall in ten to fifteen minutes. A few minutes up the same pavement, the restored Templemore Baths give you a 25-metre pool, an 80-station gym, a sauna and a café that no guest house of this size has any business having next door. The Avenue Belfast is the right choice if you want a warm, straightforward east Belfast base with a kitchen you actually use, and you would rather spend the difference on the city than on the room.
Which Room Type Gets a Private Bathroom?
Every room is compact, bright and recently redone, with white walls, a padded headboard, wall-mounted or bedside lamps and a flat-screen TV that runs streaming apps. Some sit under the eaves of the top floor with a sloping ceiling and a skylight over the bed; others look out over the roofs and back gardens of BT5 through a small sash window. Towels arrive folded in a wicker basket, and in a couple of rooms folded into swans, which tells you more about how this place is run than any facilities list will.
The decision that matters is the bathroom. Three of the five room types give you your own, opening straight off the bedroom, and two share a bathroom with other guests on the landing. That difference is easy to miss when you are booking quickly, and it is the one thing recent guests say caught them out. Floor space is the other honest limit: at roughly 12 square metres, and 14 for the triple, there is room for one open suitcase rather than two. Pack light, take an en-suite room type if a private shower matters, and the rooms do everything else well.
What Is It Like to Actually Stay Here?
You let yourself in. The host, Jim, sends entry instructions before you travel and asks for your arrival time, and the door opens to you any time between three and eight in the evening. Downstairs there is more shared room than the size of the place suggests: a lounge with a leather sofa, mustard cushions and a big television, a second sitting room with white tables set up for working or eating, a dining room in the bay window under a warm brass pendant, and a small back yard with a brick wall, hanging baskets and a chair for a quiet coffee. There is a washing machine for anyone travelling long enough to need it.
What you give up is the hotel apparatus. There is no front desk, no restaurant, no bar and no lift, and the staircase between floors is genuinely narrow. What you get instead is a house where the fridge is full, the parking is free, the Glider is at the top of the avenue, and a group turning up for a scooter rally could put their bikes in the locked yard at the back. It is a small, personal, unfussy operation, and it works because of that rather than in spite of it.
Why Guests Choose The Avenue Belfast
Four things do most of the work at this address, none of them costs extra, and together they are why solo travellers and couples pick it over a city-centre room.
Breakfast you help yourself to, at any hour
Bread, gluten-free bread, cereal, eggs, spreads, fruit and juice are laid out in the shared kitchen and included in every stay. Guests coming back from early flights and late gigs rate this above anything else about the house.
Free parking and the Glider at the top of the road
Free public parking runs along Templemore Avenue with no reservation needed, and the Glider stop at the top of the avenue puts you in the city centre in ten to fifteen minutes.
A Victorian swimming baths a few doors up
Templemore Baths reopened in 2023 after a £17m restoration with a 25-metre six-lane pool, an 80-station gym, sauna and steam rooms, a heritage centre and a café, all within a few minutes' walk.
Ten minutes from the City Airport
George Best Belfast City Airport is 1.6 miles away, roughly a ten-minute taxi, and the Titanic Quarter rail halt is 0.7 miles on foot. Titanic Belfast and the arena are both inside a mile and a half.
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Interesting Points About The Avenue Belfast
- Templemore Baths, Ireland's only surviving Victorian public baths, sits a few minutes up the same avenue and reopened on 19 June 2023 after a £17m redevelopment funded by Belfast City Council and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Inside are a 25-metre six-lane pool, the restored Victorian Major Pool, an 80-station gym, sauna and steam rooms, a heritage centre and the Courtyard Café.
- Travel listings tag every room here with a private kitchen and a full appliance inventory. That is a listing error the property itself corrects: the cooker, microwave, washing machine and tumble dryer all live in one shared self-catering kitchen that every guest uses, which is exactly why the free provisions in it matter so much.
- The arena a mile north of the front door stopped being the SSE Arena on 1 July 2026 and now trades as The O2 Belfast, under a ten-year naming-rights deal announced in April 2026. Almost every accommodation listing in the city still uses the old name.
- Belfast Grand Central Station opened for buses in September 2024 and for trains on 13 October 2024, and is now the largest integrated transport facility on the island of Ireland with eight rail platforms and 26 bus stands. The station some older listings still call Belfast Central was renamed Lanyon Place back in 2018.
Rooms & Accommodation at The Avenue Belfast
Double Room with Private Bathroom
Sleeps 2 · 12 m² · Double bed · Private bathroom · City view
The most photographed room in the house, and the one that settles the bathroom question before you arrive. Twelve square metres, a double bed under a grey padded headboard with a wall-mounted cube shelf and lamp either side, a wardrobe, a desk and towels folded in a basket, plus a private bathroom of its own. Couples on a first Belfast trip tend to land here, and it is the safe pick if you would rather not gamble on a landing you share.
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Economy Double Room
Sleeps 2 · 12 m² · Double bed · Private bathroom · City view
You get a private bathroom at the cheapest end of the house here, which is unusual enough to be the reason to pick it. The trade-off is the outlook and the furniture: a plain, bright room of about 12 square metres with a small window over the roofs, a grey padded headboard, a luggage rack and a wall-mounted TV. Right for one traveller or a couple who will be out all day.
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Budget Double Room
Sleeps 2 · 12 m² · Double bed · Private bathroom · Top floor
Up under the roof, where the ceiling slopes down over one side of the bed and a small high window lets the morning in. Twelve square metres with its own bathroom through the door, patterned floor tiling, a double bed and a towel rack. The catch is the climb: this one is at the top of the narrow staircase, so it suits travellers with one bag rather than three.
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Double Room with Shared Bathroom
Sleeps 2 · 12 m² · Double bed · Shared bathroom · Skylight
The prettiest of the attic rooms and the cheapest way into the house, with a skylight set into the slope directly above the bed and a tall gold-framed mirror on the facing wall. Twelve square metres, a double bed, towels in a wicker basket. The bathroom is on the landing and shared, which is a fair swap for solo travellers who are out all day and only need somewhere good to sleep. Take one of the en-suite types instead if a private shower is non-negotiable.
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Triple Room with Shared Bathroom
Sleeps 3 · 14 m² · Double plus single bed · Shared bathroom
Three of you, one room, and the extra two square metres you will feel: a double against one wall and a single against the other, mustard cushions on both, grey throws, a lamp beside each bed and a cut-glass ceiling light in the middle. The bathroom is shared with other guests. This is the room for families with an older child, or for three friends splitting a weekend. Children of any age are welcome and a cot is free for under-twos on request, though from three years up they count as adults on the booking.
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Shared Kitchen
- Free breakfast provisions laid out daily: bread, cereal, eggs, spreads, fruit and juice
- Gluten-free bread and cereal kept in a labelled basket
- Dairy-free and lactose-free milk alongside the fresh milk in the fridge
- Oven, hob and microwave for cooking a proper meal
- Coffee machine, kettle and toaster
- Fridge, freezer and full kitchenware
- Washing machine and tumble dryer, plus a drying rack
- Breakfast bar with stools and a second dining table
In the Room
- Flat-screen TV with streaming apps in every room
- Free Wi-Fi in all areas
- Desk, wardrobe or clothes rack and a socket beside the bed
- Fresh linen, towels and free toiletries
- Heating and carpeted floors
- Hairdryer
- Carbon monoxide detector and smoke alarms
Bathroom
- Private bathroom in three of the five room types
- Shared bathroom for the Double and Triple with Shared Bathroom
- Bath or shower, free toiletries, towels and toilet paper
- Extra towels and sheets available for a fee
Shared Spaces
- Lounge with a leather sofa and a large television
- Second sitting room with tables set up for eating or working
- Dining room in the bay window
- Sun terrace and patio at the back with outdoor furniture
- Iron and ironing facilities
Parking & Transport
- Free public parking on site, no reservation needed
- Free street parking along Templemore Avenue
- Accessible parking bay
- Glider stop on Templemore Avenue for the city centre
- Titanic Quarter rail halt 0.7 mi, Belfast Lanyon Place 0.9 mi
- No airport shuttle
Practicalities
- Private check-in and check-out, no staffed reception
- Family rooms and child safety socket covers
- Free cot for under-twos on request
- Non-smoking throughout, with a designated outdoor smoking area
- CCTV in the common areas and key access
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only, no lift
- Invoice provided on request
Templemore Avenue, BT5, Between the Baths and the Titanic Quarter
Templemore Avenue runs off the Albertbridge Road in BT5, the postcode that covers Ballymacarrett, Bloomfield and the working-heritage streets of inner east Belfast. It is a residential avenue of red-brick Victorian terraces, and The Avenue Belfast occupies two of them, at numbers 92 and 94. This is not the polished hotel quarter, which is precisely the point: you are staying in the part of the city that built the Titanic, produced George Best and C.S. Lewis, and gave Van Morrison the street name for Cyprus Avenue, a few minutes from all three stories rather than a taxi ride from them.
The single best thing on the doorstep is Templemore Baths, a couple of hundred yards up the same pavement. Ireland's only surviving Victorian public baths reopened in June 2023 after a £17m restoration, and a day pass gets you a 25-metre six-lane pool, an 80-station gym, sauna and steam rooms and the heritage centre in the old Major Pool. The Courtyard Café inside it is the closest thing to a hotel breakfast room you will find, open daily for coffee, cake and light lunches. For a pint, The Cock & Hen on Lord Street is about 300 yards, four or five minutes on foot.
Getting into town is easier than the map suggests. The Glider stops on Templemore Avenue and runs the Albertbridge and Newtownards Road corridor into the centre every nine or ten minutes through the day, in ten to fifteen minutes. On foot, City Hall is about 25 minutes. Titanic Quarter halt is 0.7 miles, Belfast Lanyon Place 0.9 miles, and George Best Belfast City Airport 1.6 miles, about ten minutes and £10 to £16 in a taxi. Northeast, the Comber Greenway gives you a traffic-free walking and cycling route along the old railway line, about twenty minutes away through CS Lewis Square.
- Templemore Baths: A couple of hundred yards up the avenue, about a 4-minute walk. Ireland's only surviving Victorian public baths, reopened June 2023 after a £17m restoration: 25-metre six-lane pool, 80-station gym, sauna and steam, heritage centre and the Courtyard Café.
- The Cock & Hen: 300 yd, about a 5-minute walk, at 3 Lord Street. The neighbourhood bar for a pint after a day on your feet, and the nearest place to eat that is not a supermarket.
- CS Lewis Square: Just under a mile northeast, about a 20-minute walk. A free public square with seven bronze Narnia sculptures, Aslan and the White Witch among them, where the Connswater and Comber Greenways meet beside the JACK Coffee Bar.
- Titanic Belfast: 1.3 mi north, a 30-minute walk or about 7 minutes by taxi. The hull-shaped museum on the slipways where RMS Titanic was built and launched, next to the SS Nomadic.
- The O2 Belfast: 1.1 mi north, a 25-minute walk or 5 minutes by taxi. Northern Ireland's largest indoor arena at 11,200 capacity and home of the Belfast Giants, renamed from the SSE Arena on 1 July 2026.
- Ormeau Park: 1.1 mi, about a 22-minute walk. One of Belfast's oldest municipal parks, and the closest proper green space for a run or a morning loop.
- Big Fish and Custom House Square: 1.1 mi, about a 22-minute walk into town. John Kindness's printed-ceramic Salmon of Knowledge on the Lagan waterfront beside the weir footbridge.
- Albert Memorial Clock: 1.2 mi, about a 25-minute walk. The city's famously leaning Victorian clock tower in Queen's Square, four feet off the perpendicular on its wooden piles.
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Templemore Baths
4 min walk
A couple of hundred yards up the avenue, about a four-minute walk, Templemore Baths is the reason this address beats most budget stays in the city. Ireland's only surviving Victorian public baths reopened in June 2023 after a £17m redevelopment, and behind the 1893 red-brick frontage there is now a 25-metre six-lane pool, the restored Victorian Major Pool, an 80-station gym, sauna and steam rooms, a heritage centre and the Courtyard Café. It is a public leisure centre, so a swim or a gym session is a four-minute walk from your bed.
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Titanic Belfast
7 min drive
About 1.3 miles north, a thirty-minute walk or roughly seven minutes by taxi, Titanic Belfast stands on the very slipways where the ship was designed, built and launched. The nine galleries run from the shipyard boom of the 1900s through the fit-out and the maiden voyage to the wreck on the seabed, and the building's four silver shards are the same height as the original hull. The SS Nomadic, Titanic's last surviving tender, is berthed alongside.
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CS Lewis Square
20 min walk
Just under a mile northeast, about a twenty-minute walk, CS Lewis Square is a free public space with seven bronze Narnia sculptures set around it, Aslan, the White Witch and Mr Tumnus among them, honouring the author who was born a few streets away. It sits where the Connswater and Comber Greenways meet, so it doubles as the gateway to a traffic-free walking and cycling route along the old railway line. The EastSide Visitor Centre and the JACK Coffee Bar are right there for a stop on the way back.
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- From George Best Belfast City Airport, take a taxi: The airport is 1.6 miles away and a taxi takes about ten minutes, typically £10 to £16. There is no shuttle from the property. If you would rather not take a taxi, the Airport Express 600 runs into the city centre in about ten minutes for around £2.30, and you pick up the Glider east from there.
- From Belfast Grand Central Station, take the Glider east: Grand Central opened for trains in October 2024 and is now the city's main rail and bus hub. Walk through to the city centre interchange, board a Glider heading east towards Dundonald, and stay on for roughly ten minutes. Services run every nine or ten minutes through the day.
- Get off at the Templemore Avenue stop: The stop is on the Albertbridge and Newtownards Road corridor at the top of Templemore Avenue. It is signed, and the avenue runs south from it.
- Walk down Templemore Avenue to numbers 92 and 94: Head down the avenue for a few minutes. The property is a pair of red-brick terraced houses on the left, one with a blue door at 92 and one with a white door and a rendered white frontage at 94. Templemore Baths is on the same stretch, so if you reach the baths you have gone too far.
- Let yourself in between 15:00 and 20:00: There is no reception desk. Send the host your arrival time before you travel and entry instructions come back to you. If your flight lands outside the 15:00 to 20:00 window, message ahead and arrange it rather than turning up and hoping.
Get to Know Belfast
Belfast rewards a short stay more than most cities its size. The shipyard cranes, Samson and Goliath, still stand over the Titanic Quarter a mile north of Templemore Avenue; the murals and peace walls of the Falls and Shankill sit a couple of miles west; and between them is a compact centre of Victorian bar interiors, St George's Market at the weekend and a food scene that has grown teeth in the last decade. May to September gives you the mildest weather and the fullest events calendar, with daylight past ten in June.
Time your trip carefully in early August. Belfast hosted Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, the world's biggest Irish traditional music festival, from 2 to 9 August 2026, and the city recorded 1.65 million visitors across that week. It returns to Belfast from 1 to 8 August 2027, the first place in Northern Ireland to host it twice, so book far ahead for those dates or pick a different week.
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Is The Avenue Belfast worth it?
Yes, if you want a clean, good-value east Belfast base and will make use of the kitchen. The free provisions laid out daily, including gluten-free bread, cover breakfast properly, the parking outside costs nothing, and the City Airport is a ten-minute taxi. Skip it if you need a lift, a spacious room or a private bathroom in every room type, because two of the five share one.
What Guests Say About The Avenue Belfast
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Good
The kitchen is what guests come back to talk about. Review after review names the provisioning by hand, the bread and the gluten-free basket, the cereal, the eggs and the milk that meant nobody had to go out for a carton before their first coffee, and several call it an unexpected pleasant surprise rather than a listed amenity. Cleanliness, comfortable beds, the host's communication before and during a stay, and the value for a base this close to the airport and the Glider all come up consistently. The honest counterweights are floor space, the narrow staircase with no lift, traffic noise through an open window on a warm night, and the shared bathroom on two of the five room types, which is the detail people most often say they wish they had noticed at booking.
The kitchen was properly supplied, right down to a gluten-free bread option alongside the milk, spreads and cereal. The only downside was traffic noise carrying up from the street, and I was not sure the window sealed as well as it should.
Errity
Twenty to thirty minutes on foot into the centre, with a bus stop very close by. The room was clean and warm, and there were groceries for breakfast waiting in the kitchen.
We came over as a group for the scooter rally, so being minutes from the venue and a short drive from town suited us, and the bikes went into a locked compound behind the house. Rooms were clean and well presented with comfortable beds and wall-mounted televisions, the kitchen was always stocked with cereal, fruit, eggs, bread and milk, and the communal rooms had proper seating plus tables for eating or working.
I liked the homely feel of the place and having the kitchen to use, and my room had its own bathroom. Less good: the TV remote had no battery in it, the stairs are tight for carrying a suitcase up and down, and there is not much space in the room to leave one open.
The host stayed in touch well before we arrived and during the stay. Plenty of choice at breakfast, the bus stop is not far, the place was clean and the bed was comfy. In the hot spell the room held the heat, and opening the window let the traffic in.
A pleasant host and honestly good value for what we paid.
The communal rooms were laid out well and kept clean, and the kitchen had enough food in it that I did not have to go out for milk for a cup of tea, which I had not expected. The bedroom furniture is basic though it does the job, and I had nowhere secure to leave my motorbike.
Comfortable bed and a kitchen with a decent amount in it. Ours was one of the rooms with a shared bathroom, and there is a washing machine but no dryer we could find for clothes.
Good to Know Before You Book
Breakfast is included, and you make it yourself
The shared kitchen is laid out daily with bread, gluten-free bread, cereal, eggs, spreads, fruit and juice, all included and available whenever you come down, which is genuinely useful before an early flight. There is no cooked breakfast and no service, so do not arrive expecting an Ulster fry brought to a table. Guests are asked to wash up after themselves.
Three room types have their own bathroom, two share
The Economy Double, the Budget Double and the Double Room with Private Bathroom all have a bathroom off the bedroom. The Double Room with Shared Bathroom and the Triple Room with Shared Bathroom use a bathroom on the landing shared with other guests. Check which one you have selected before you confirm, because it is the single most common surprise here.
No lift, and the staircase is narrow
Rooms on the upper floors are reached by stairs only, and the flights are tight for a large suitcase. Rooms are compact too, at roughly 12 square metres and 14 for the triple, so there is space for one open case rather than two. Accessible parking is available outside; if stairs are a problem, contact the property before booking to ask what is on the ground floor.
Cancellation terms vary, and a £50 deposit is held
Cancellation and prepayment conditions depend on the rate and room type you pick, so check the terms shown against your dates before confirming. Payment is taken at the time of booking. A refundable £50 damage deposit is charged to a credit card seven days before arrival and returned after check-out subject to an inspection. Keep some cash for anything you need on site.
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The Avenue Belfast FAQs
Breakfast is included and it is entirely self-service from the shared kitchen. The counter is laid out daily with bread, a labelled gluten-free basket, cereal, eggs, spreads, fruit and juice, and there is dairy-free milk in the fridge alongside the fresh. Nothing is cooked or served to a table, and there are no set hours, so you can eat before a 5am flight or at eleven on a Sunday. Guests are asked to wash up after themselves.
Free public parking is available on site with no reservation needed, and free street parking runs along Templemore Avenue. An accessible bay is listed too. There is no dedicated, guaranteed car park, so on a busy evening you may end up a little further along the avenue. The locked yard at the back has been used for motorcycles and scooters by arrangement, but it is not a guaranteed facility, so ask the host in advance.
Three of the five room types have a private bathroom and two share one. The Economy Double, Budget Double and Double Room with Private Bathroom each have their own; the Double Room with Shared Bathroom and the Triple Room with Shared Bathroom use a bathroom on the landing. Every bathroom has a bath or shower, towels, a hairdryer and free toiletries. Check the room name carefully at the booking stage.
It is one shared kitchen used by all guests, not a private kitchen in each room. Some travel listings tag every room type with a private kitchen and a full appliance list, which is a listing error: the oven, hob, microwave, washing machine and tumble dryer are all in the communal kitchen downstairs, along with the free breakfast provisions and a breakfast bar with stools.
Check-in is private and self-service between 15:00 and 20:00, with check-out until 10:00. There is no staffed reception, so you tell the host your arrival time in advance and entry instructions come back to you. If your flight lands outside that window, message ahead rather than turning up and hoping. You need to be 18 or over to check yourself in.
The airport is 1.6 miles away, roughly a ten-minute taxi at about £10 to £16. There is no airport shuttle from the property. Belfast International is 13 miles out, best reached by the Airport Express 300 into the city centre and then the Glider east. The nearest rail halt to the City Airport is Sydenham.
Titanic Belfast is 1.3 miles north, a thirty-minute walk along the river side or about seven minutes in a taxi. For the city centre, the Glider stops at the top of Templemore Avenue and runs every nine or ten minutes into the middle of town, taking ten to fifteen minutes; on foot it is about 25 minutes. Titanic Quarter halt is 0.7 miles away and Belfast Lanyon Place 0.9 miles.
There is no lift and the upper floors are reached by stairs only. The staircase is narrow, which several guests mention when carrying suitcases, and rooms are compact at roughly 12 to 14 square metres. Accessible parking is available outside. If stairs would be a problem, contact the property before booking to ask what can be arranged on the lower floors.
Children of any age are welcome and a cot is free for under-twos on request, though children aged three and over are counted as adults on the booking and there are no extra beds. Pets are not allowed and smoking is not permitted indoors, with a designated outdoor smoking area provided. House rules also rule out hen and stag parties, and quiet hours run from 22:00 to 07:00.
Templemore Baths is a four-minute walk up the same avenue, with a 25-metre pool, an 80-station gym, sauna and steam rooms and the Courtyard Café since its £17m restoration reopened it in June 2023. The Cock and Hen on Lord Street is about 300 yards for a pint. CS Lewis Square with its Narnia bronzes and the Comber Greenway are a twenty-minute walk northeast, and Ormeau Park is a little over a mile.
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Big Yellow Door in Queens Quarter
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Ready to Book The Avenue Belfast?
A pair of renovated townhouses on Templemore Avenue with one well-stocked shared kitchen, free breakfast provisions including a gluten-free option, free parking outside and the Glider into town a few steps away. The right base for solo travellers, couples and small groups who want east Belfast, the City Airport and the Titanic Quarter within easy reach.
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