Going Ashore on Your Cruise Ship Vacation

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Melissa Schenk on behalf of expertvillage.com today we’re discussing cruise traveling tips. Now let’s discuss shore excursions, when you board the ship there’s a shore excursion desk and if there’s something you really want to book, book it as far in advance as you possibly can when you get on there because I can assure you all of the good things that you’ll want to book they do book up fast. There’s always a shore excursion talk a really good idea is if you’re interested in something but you don’t quiet know there are shore excursion experts. They will have talk throughout the cruise when you’re at sea before you get into the port of call you can go and you can also ask questions at the shore excursion desk. Keep in mind too depending if you like to go with the shore excursions with the ship they tend to be a little bit more costly because of the ship is taken care of you. Sometimes if you wait till the port of call and you walk probably about a few feet off of the gangway and down the plank where the ship is docked there are other excursions there. Now those the ship probably won’t recommend to you because one, they’re not making any money but those excursions are usually a lot cheaper and the ship the shore excursion desk will tend to tell you that, well they don’t back up and guarantee that because you won’t get back on time or if you don’t get back on time they’re not going to wait for you. This is of course true but the shore excursions deal with guests everyday, thousands of them usually in a port of call you get 5,000 guest a day and they want to make their money too, so they will drastically drop their prices for shore excursions. "