excursions

[vicreg]

Does anyone have suggestions and favorites for shore excursions on the Scandanavian & St.Petersburg cruise in July on Prinsendam? Thanks.

[jtl513]

There's so many in St Petersburg it's hard to make a choice! I'd suggest Glories of St Petersburg ($189 pp) which gives you Catherine's Palace in the morning, a nice lunch, and the Hermitage in the afternoon. If you're still able to do more that night, we enjoyed the Evening Folkloric Spectacular ($39).

 

Or, you could do the Peterhof and Folk Show ($159) the first day and do just Catherine's Palace at Pushkin ($149) the second day.

 

If you're interested in just a 1/2 day excursion, try Murder on the Moika River ($72), which is a nice canal ride and a visit to Yusupov Palace, where Rasputin was killed.

 

Other than in St. Pete, the only ship's excursion we did was in Estonia: Tallinn's Old Town - A Walking Tour. ($59) This is good because a bus takes you up very close to the top of Toompea Hill (just a little further walk up to the top) and then the rest is all downhill to the shopping area! I know if we had tried to walk up the hill all the way we would have given up and missed the beatiful Nevsky Cathedral at the top.

[RuthC]

Best thing in St. Petersburg is to take a private tour. I went with Red October and in two days and one night saw everything that was on all the HAL tours! Expensive, yes. But worth it.

I hope you have glorious weather in Stockholm. The sail in/out is spectacular. Sailing in that morning was the only time in my life I've regretted not having a balcony. HAL had a party on the bow as we sailed away. I stayed out there for most of four hours---long after everyone else had gone inside. It was one of the three prettiest rides in my cruising life.