Galveston Post Cruise Tour through Princess?

[Sunny AZ Girl]

In the past we have enjoyed post-cruise tours through the cruise line (Seattle, Ft. Lauderdale) with airport drop off. I do not see anything on Princess' website regarding this kind of tour. I know it is a new port for Princess, so I checked Carnival's website and did not see any excursions listed for Galveston, either. Does anyone know if this type of tour is ever offered? We will be flying out of Hobby.

[ssb]

Do it on your own!

With a couple of days only

There is plenty to do in Galveston/Kemah/Nasa area

There are special events in Galveston

area almost every weekend

See:

www.galveston.com (what to do)(calendar of events) your vacation calendar dates

Sign up on Galveston.com for email of weekly events

see also:

www.galvestonhistory.org -------Galveston Historical Foundation !!!!!!

www.moodygardens.com ------ just look at site !!!!!!

www.thegrand.com – 1894 Grand Opera House !!!!!!

 

 

Clearlake

Nasa Space Center

Kemah board walk – www.kemahboardwalk.com

Galveston:

Beaches Beaches Beaches

Old town Galveston *- Strand To Post Office Street NEXT TO PORT TERMINAL(1 block)

(lots of shopping, ice cream, old army surplus store, nautical shop, fine restaurants) Restaurants, Antiques, Shops, Bakery and Coffee shop

Wineries and wine festivals

Restaurants overlooking gulf and on port

Two first class convention centers

Many live theater venues

Many live music venues

Free concert nights - old town Galveston *- on strand

Free film nights -old town Galveston *- on strand

Free band nights-“family/kids” oriented-summer outdoor Tuesdays 24th & Sealy

1894 Grand Opera House * (a must seetour, and/or performances of many types)

Chess park

Artist festivals

Museums

Antique stores and art Galleries

Horse drawn carriage rides

Swimming in Gulf

Fine restaurants

Night scene

Galveston Historical Foundation properties*

Many Historical and Victorian homes

Galveston has second largest preservation membership in United States

Wooden Carved Trees Tour (wonderful)

Bishops palace (wonderful)

Moody mansion(wonderful)

· Ashton villa (wonderful)

Moody gardens *(lots and lots and lots to do) (massive, fun and family oriented)

Schlitterbahn water park www.schlitterbahn.com/gal

Restored tall ship schooner Elisa NEXT TO PORT TERMINALwww.tsm-elissa.org (wonderful)

1900 storm and pirate jean Laffite documentary films at port NEXT TO PORT TERMINAL

Pirates Store and program - Old town Strand

Maritime museum- NEXT TO PORT TERMINAL www.tsm-elissa.org

Airplane museum (Lone Star Flight Museum)- www.lsfm.org/

Railroad museum - NEXT TO PORT TERMINAL http://www.galvestonrrmuseum.com

Oil drilling rig museum - NEXT TO PORT TERMINALwww.oceanstaroec.com

Sea wolf park – WWII submarine and destroyer - www.cavalla.org

Large souvenir shop over gulf water - Murdochs

Walks and shelling on the beach

Cruise ships (RCCL, Carnival, Princess, Disney)

Fishing (piers, wadefishing and charters-offshore & inshore))

Golfing

Skateboard park - large

Kayaking trails

Surfing and children surf camps

Kite flying on beach

Marine life and children marine care educational camps at Moody Gardens

Marine life and children marine camps at Texas AM University - Sea Camp Programs

Various Running events with major Triathlon event

Sand castle building event

Shopping shopping shopping

Dolphin watching and port water tours

Turtle rescue farm behind San Luis Resort

Carved damaged trees tour from storm

Free ferry ride and a short cruise to Bolivar

Duck tour (amphibious boat)

Galveston.com/ interact and discover/cams

Many major weekly events and festivals not mentioned

as example :

Spring Break Events

Confederate Reenactment

Sanctioned and Fun Runs(some large)

Triathlon Events

Art Walk (every 5 or so weeks year around)

Dickens on Strand (Dec) ----LARGE - http://www.dickensonthestrand.com

Lone Star Motorcycle Rally (Nov) ---LARGE - www.lonestarrally.com

Mardi Gras Galveston (Feb) ----LARGE - www.mardigrasgalveston.com

October Fest

Beach Events

Beer Fests

Wine Events and Fests

Greek Fest

Epicurean Evening of all restaurants

Shrimp Fest

Yega’s Wild Game Cook Off large

County Fair - LARGE

Children’s Fest

Feather Fest - Large

Old Timey Bathing Beauty Fest

And many many more !!

Trauma 1 Emergency Hospital on Island – Univ. Texas Medical Branch/Sealy Hospital

 

[jonbgd]

1 of the drawbacks of cruising out of Galveston

 

I think the cruiselines dont do it since the airport is so far away.

 

It takes about an hour to get to HOU

[Sunny AZ Girl]

Do it on your own!

 

 

Thank you for the extensive list. I am sure there will be many on these boards who will benefit from it. However, at this point we plan to go right from the ship to the airport. It would be nice to be able to see some of the area along the way. We will not be renting a car or staying overnight post-cruise. However, we are over a year away and we may change our minds down the road.

 

1 of the drawbacks of cruising out of Galveston

 

I think the cruiselines dont do it since the airport is so far away.

 

It takes about an hour to get to HOU

 

Too bad. I know they run a shuttle. It would be great to see some of the sights along the way. I would book a later flight to accommodate a post-cruise tour if one were available. I don't like worrying my luggage and those tours handle it all for you. Most of the time on a cruise we do private tours, but post-cruise is one of those exceptions, unless we are staying overnight.

[jonbgd]

 

Too bad. I know they run a shuttle. It would be great to see some of the sights along the way. I would book a later flight to accommodate a post-cruise tour if one were available. I don't like worrying my luggage and those tours handle it all for you. Most of the time on a cruise we do private tours, but post-cruise is one of those exceptions, unless we are staying overnight.

 

I agree,that is what we do the first time we cruise out of a port. I dont know why one of the locals doesnt have a post cruise tour contract with any of the cruislines.

They could easily do a drive thru The Strand, along the Seawall and than up Broadway and all those historic houses to the 10 and on to the airport.

 

While Its a great drive to port........ it could be better port if they had one way rentals for people flying in. Something like what Orlando/Port Canaveral does

One of the reasons we always chose to cruise out FLL or MIA was lack of transportation between airport and port. Also it expensive to fly to Houston from anywhere.