Murmansk info, please..

[Mexfolkart]

We will be going to Murmansk on our 2014 cruise. Do you have to get Russian passports to just go on shore on your own? Or do the tour companies provide them like they do in St. Petersburg? Is it worth getting off in Murmansk?

Thanks for your help!

Sherry & Kimber

[LHT28]

You will have to get a VISA for independent touring ..that is if you can find a taxi at the port (if you can call it a port)

Not sure there are even any private guides there to do private tours

It took us several hours for the ship to be cleared ...good thing we had booked the 3 hr tour, other did not get the longer tour because of the delay from the Russian authorities

It is much worse than SPB disembarkation

 

Yes it was worth getting off the ship despite the cost of Oceania's tour

 

Lyn

[Mexfolkart]

Thanks, Lyn..we will do the ships 3 hour tour too when we go. Good advice.

Sherry & Kimber

[LHT28]

Thanks, Lyn..we will do the ships 3 hour tour too when we go. Good advice.

Sherry & Kimber

Book ahead of time as they did fill up and some people could not get on a tour

 

We did the one with pancakes involved ;)

 

Lyn