Practical guides to cruise ports, destinations, and shore days around the world. We explain arrival arrangements and compare excursion options.
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Mariehamn Cruise Port
Mariehamn cruise port offers a rare Baltic day where the sensible plan is also the easy one. The western harbour places passengers beside Åland’s maritime story: the museum ship Pommern and the Åland Maritime Museum…
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Molde Cruise Port
Molde cruise port is a fjord call with a better local day than its excursion brochures sometimes suggest. The town sits on the Romsdalsfjord with the mountain panorama across the water, and passengers can reach…
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Mamoudzou Cruise Port
Mamoudzou cruise port is a gateway to Mayotte’s lagoon rather than a conventional walk-off resort call. Mamoudzou is the administrative and commercial centre on Grande-Terre, while many of the island group’s most memorable experiences involve…
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Kirkwall Cruise Port
Kirkwall cruise port is the point where many passengers discover that Orkney is not a single attraction but a collection of competing days. You can stay in the island capital for St Magnus Cathedral, the…
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Lerwick Cruise Port
Lerwick cruise port can be used in two completely different ways. One is a compact independent day around the Shetland capital: the waterfront, Commercial Street, Fort Charlotte, the Shetland Museum and Archives and the Broch…
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Helsingør Cruise Port
Helsingor cruise port brings passengers ashore within sight of Kronborg Castle, the waterfront fortress linked with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The ship normally anchors off the Danish coast and uses tenders, but this is not a remote…
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Invergordon Cruise Port
Invergordon cruise port places ships on the Cromarty Firth within walking reach of a small Highland town, but most passengers arrive thinking about places beyond it. Loch Ness, Culloden, Clava Cairns, Inverness and Dunrobin Castle…
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Ilfracombe Cruise Port
Ilfracombe cruise port is a tender call into a small tidal harbour framed by steep North Devon streets. Passengers arrive close to the quay, the harbour chapel and Damien Hirst’s towering Verity sculpture, but the…
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Horta Cruise Port
Horta cruise port sits on Faial, one of the central islands of the Azores, facing Pico across a narrow Atlantic channel. Horta is both a practical harbour and a destination with its own character: yachts…
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Kirkenes Cruise Port
Kirkenes cruise port is more than a sightseeing stop at Norway’s northeastern edge. It is also an embarkation and turnaround point for the coastal route, close to the Russian border and surrounded by seasonal Arctic…
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Ísafjörður Cruise Port
Isafjordur cruise port sits deep in Iceland’s Westfjords, where a compact fishing town occupies a narrow shelf beneath steep mountains. Many ships berth close enough for passengers to walk into town; others may tender when…
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Fishguard Cruise Port
Fishguard cruise port brings ships to a small harbour on the north Pembrokeshire coast rather than to a purpose-built city terminal. The reward is a day with genuine local character: wooded harbour slopes, Lower Town’s…