nursinadream Posted November 13, 2023 #1 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Any reviews from these cruises this fall? We're interested in visiting these locations have done some land visits to the big Canadian cities ie Quebec City and Montreal but not the small Northeastern townships. The brochure promotions are lovely though the views are not always as promised according to weather and other factors. Would love to read some feedback for cruisers. Thanks. df Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Pandazoo Posted November 13, 2023 #2 Share Posted November 13, 2023 If you keep scrolling there to page 3 there is a vista ship post with lots of pictures by mvpinboyton of their cruise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursinadream Posted November 14, 2023 Author #3 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Thanks! I've just spent a couple hours on Mr Preisman's delightful review. Deb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britfan Posted November 17, 2023 #4 Share Posted November 17, 2023 We just returned a week ago from the Montreal-Boston cruise on Insignia. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at each port and on the ship. Montreal is definitely worth an extra day. It was the last itinerary before repositioning for the winter and we had expected to find the fall foliage well past peak and to have poor weather; but the price was very good with the ESS sale and we had never been to many of the ports before. The exchange rate was great for US $, too. While it was definitely cold in some locations (highs ranged from 30's in Quebec to 50's in Boston), there was a lot more leaf color seen and we only had a little rain once in 11 days; snow showers one other time. We missed one port, East Port, ME due to weather. We did a mix of ship excursions and exploring on our own. The one caution is if arriving after Oct 31, it's the end of the tourist season and many places then shut down. This caused several excursions to be cancelled although they did try to find some alternatives. We were the very last cruise ship to visit in several of the locations. Our one disappointment, other than the missed port, was that on an otherwise good excursion to the Anne of GG museum on PEI, the shop was closed. Of course, that was the one place where I had promised to buy gifts for some of my younger family members! There was no time afterwards in Charlottetown for shopping where I had spotted items earlier in the day but had decided to wait until we got to the museum shop. oh well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ORV Posted November 17, 2023 #5 Share Posted November 17, 2023 6 hours ago, britfan said: We just returned a week ago from the Montreal-Boston cruise on Insignia. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at each port and on the ship. Montreal is definitely worth an extra day. It was the last itinerary before repositioning for the winter and we had expected to find the fall foliage well past peak and to have poor weather; but the price was very good with the ESS sale and we had never been to many of the ports before. The exchange rate was great for US $, too. While it was definitely cold in some locations (highs ranged from 30's in Quebec to 50's in Boston), there was a lot more leaf color seen and we only had a little rain once in 11 days; snow showers one other time. We missed one port, East Port, ME due to weather. We did a mix of ship excursions and exploring on our own. The one caution is if arriving after Oct 31, it's the end of the tourist season and many places then shut down. This caused several excursions to be cancelled although they did try to find some alternatives. We were the very last cruise ship to visit in several of the locations. Our one disappointment, other than the missed port, was that on an otherwise good excursion to the Anne of GG museum on PEI, the shop was closed. Of course, that was the one place where I had promised to buy gifts for some of my younger family members! There was no time afterwards in Charlottetown for shopping where I had spotted items earlier in the day but had decided to wait until we got to the museum shop. oh well.... There's always the internet, just don't tell them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepherd really Posted November 18, 2023 #6 Share Posted November 18, 2023 17 hours ago, ORV said: There's always the internet, just don't tell them. I went to the Amazon but forgot to get some gifts. It turns out you can buy stuff from the Amazon online, I'll have to look for the name of that site if anyone has some Prime interest in it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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