"Cathy Kearns" wrote in message
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> "Rosalie B." wrote in message
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>> "Cathy Kearns" wrote:
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>> >Is there a way, before signing up for a cruise, you can tell where the
> ship
>> >is going to dock in each port. For instance, in Stockholm some ships
> dock
>> >in Stockholm, and others dock in Nynashamn. Can you tell where your
>> >ship
> is
>> >going to dock before you sign up for the cruise?
>> >
>> I don't know about Stockholm, but in some cases where the ship docks
>> depends on what other ships are there at the same time. So some ships
>> coming in to St. Thomas will be at Havensight, and some will not.
>>
>> Other factors are what arrangements the cruise line has made such as
>> some ships docking in Key West right downtown and some out by Fort
>> Taylor. Some of them pay the extra required to stay there until night
>> time (to see the sunset) and some do not.
>>
>> And it could change too.
>
> I understand that some ships end up with better berths than others. On my
> recent RSSC Baltic cruise our ship always ended up closer, or in town,
> when
> others were farther, sometimes much farther out. For instance, in St.
> Petersburg we were berthed in the river in the center of town near the
> Ascension church. The other RSSC ship was down at the Marine Passenger
> Terminal, while other ships, Costa's Magica, HAL's Amsterdam, were out at
> the commercial port. Our guide mentioned that the difference between
> where
> our ship was berthed, and the commercial port, saved us 30 minutes at the
> beginning and end of each day.
We were probably about 5-8 minutes away, not 30 minutes, where we docked.
I'd still rather have been where you were in St. Petersburg, but it wasn't
30 minutes.
--Tom
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