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Shore Excursions

A port day is short and the brochure is long. These are the excursions we genuinely recommend — what each one is really like, who it suits, and how to avoid booking the wrong version of it.

Port day, done properly

Excursions Worth Your Day

Difficulty, what to bring, and whether to book through the ship or independently.

Belize Cave TubingFloating a jungle river through the Maya underworld by headlamp.Read the guide Stingray CityStanding waist-deep on a sandbar with wild southern stingrays.Read the guide Dunn’s River FallsClimbing 600 feet of living waterfall, hand in hand, in Ocho Rios.Read the guide Mendenhall GlacierVisitor centre, guided ice trek, helicopter landing or dog sled.Read the guide Juneau Whale WatchingHumpbacks in Stephens Passage — near-guaranteed, bubble-net season.Read the guide Rome & the VaticanOne port day, the Eternal City — and realistic timing rules.Read the guide SantoriniOia without the crowds, Bronze Age Akrotiri and volcanic assyrtiko.Read the guide Cozumel Reef SnorkelingPalancar and Columbia reefs, and El Cielo's starfish sandbar.Read the guide Mayan RuinsTulum's clifftop temples, Chichén Itzá, and cenote swims.Read the guide White Pass RailroadThe cliff-hanging climb out of Skagway — and which side to sit on.Read the guide Hobbiton & RotoruaMiddle-earth and geysers in one very full New Zealand day.Read the guide Great Barrier ReefOuter-reef pontoon days from Cairns, and Whitehaven from Airlie.Read the guide
The best excursion is the one you are still talking about a year later.
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