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Unless you are really stuck on NCL, I would suggest you look at other lines who might do similar cruises. In 2019 we visited the East coast of Ireland (Belfast, Dublin & Cork) and some Scottish ports - this was with P&O and we didn't have to use any tenders. Our last stop was meant to be Guernsey in the Channel Islands - that would've been a tender but our captain wouldn't let us off. He claimed the sea was too choppy for the demographic on the ship 🤣. It was annoying because a sister ship was anchored off our starboard side and they were tendering in 😕 We chose this cruise (we are on the 21st May clockwise version of this current one) because we hadn't visited the West coast. However, I never looked into it enough and if I'd have known about so many tender ports, I might not have booked this one.

9pm is posted time.

Obviously, we are simply bound by our arrival (due 1330hrs). As long as we arrive on time we then have the tendering process & transfer to town to consider. I'm hoping we can get into town by 1500hrs and our tour of the Waterford Crystal factory takes approx 1hr. IF, we do make good time, we hope to pop over to the Bishop's Palace but, their tour takes approx 45mins and it closes at 1700hrs so really, we will have to be in there for by at least 1600hrs (a bit of mooching on our own might've been nice too at least we'd see it all on the tour).

We're on the same cruise as you Jennjess. With reading this blog, I have been wondering whether to cancel our pre-booked tickets for the crystal factory tour - with timings for tendering, bus etc 🤔 I would've bought the multi ticket option for various attractions but, as you say, I think we'll be pushed to do more than 1 or 2 things before they close up for the day. It's a pity that Waterford & Dingle weren't the other way around for us 🥲but, I guess we'll just have to consider a 2nd visit.