Options for cruise visitors in Venice, Italy Here is the scenario. You are a cruise visitor to Venice and you want to get from the Stazione Marittima to the sights of Venice. What do you do? How will you get around? Option 1: Cruise ship water transfer If you plan on going to St. Marks and…
Category: Shore Excursions
Information and articles about shore excursions.
Can cruising be the ultimate adventure travel?
Can cruising be the ultimate adventure travel? According to Wikipedia, adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas. Travelers that like to explore by ship have many opportunities to see remote areas while enjoying some of the finer comforts of life, such as a bounty…
River Cruise Buzz: Cruising the Rhine River, Koblenz via Uniworld Cruises
River Cruise Buzz: Cruising the Rhine River, Koblenz via Uniworld Cruises Cruising the Rhine River, Koblenz Featured Excursion: Koblenz walking tour and Christmas Market Snowy day in Koblenz could not keep me from exploring. Our ship cruised from Rudesheim and headed north through the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. When we arrived to…
River Cruise Buzz: Cologne, Germany Christmas Markets Review
River Cruise Buzz: Cologne via Uniworld Cruises Rhine Christmas Markets Cruise Featured Excursions: Cologne walking tour, cathedral visit, and Christmas Markets. I was glad that my Christmas markets journey on Uniwolrd Cruises’ S.S. Antoinette began in the smaller town of Basel, Switzerland and ended in the very large city of Cologne, Germany. During…
River Cruise Buzz: Mainz and Rüdesheim via Uniworld Cruises
River Cruise Buzz: Mainz and Rüdesheim via Uniworld Cruises Day 5: Mainz and Rüdesheim Featured Excursion: Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum, Rüdesheim Day 5 on my Uniworld Cruises Rhine Christmas markets cruise included stops at Mainz and Rüdesheim; a cooking demonstration about Black Forest Cake; a lecture about German Christmas traditions; and a music concert. Cruise…
River Cruise Buzz: Basel Christmas Markets via Uniworld Cruises
Basel Christmas Markets Uniworld S.S. Antoinette featured port excursion Basel – The Christmas City at the heart of Europe Basel, Switzerland’s second-largest city is located in the three countries corner of Switzerland, France and Germany. Our guide told us that the area of the river where Basel occupies is referred to as “the knee of…
Port Buzz: Canary Islands visit to Fire Mountains via Silversea
Port Buzz: Canary Islands visit to Fire Mountains via Silversea Port: Arrecife in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, Spain Silver Spirit made the first of three port calls in the Canary Islands to complete our 9-night Spain and Canary Island voyage that started 7 days ago in Barcelona. Our journey has taken a turn (a…
Port Buzz: Cadiz with visit to Jerez & Cellars of Bodega Tradición via Silversea
Cadiz with visit to Jerez & Cellars of Bodega Tradición via Silversea Port: Cadiz, Spain Today Silversea’s Silver Spirit called on what is considered Western Europe’s oldest inhabited city (circa 1100 bc). Our ship docked at the Alfonso XIII quay in the Port of Cadiz with enough time for me to take a two…
Pre or Post Cruise Ideas: Celebrating Aerospace near Seattle
Pre or Post Cruise Ideas: Aerospace Tours Near Seattle Aerospace Tours Near Seattle: Flying Heritage Collection, Future of Flight Aviation Center and Boeing Tour, Historic Flight Foundation. If cruise visitors staying in Seattle for longer than a night have some free time on their hands, take a trip to Snohomish County to enjoy an aerospace…
Pre or Post Seattle Cruise Excursion: Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour
Pre or Post Seattle Cruise Excursion: Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour Perhaps a little off the beaten track but well worth the effort is a pre or post cruise tour to the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour in Snohomish County. I got a chance to enjoy the center after…