nooreen

Hi Nooreen, we sailed on the Breakaway week of June 16 and I can confirm that there were no separate lines once off the ship for NCL tours or Private tours. Same immigration/border control lines for all. We toured with SPB and they had multiple vans/mini buses departing for tours and it seemed that once one filled up, they would take off. We were in the Haven, so we were escorted to a staff elevator and were off within 3 minutes (a key reason why we booked the Haven). We ended up waiting for our SPB group to fill up for about a half hour on the first day. Second day was much faster through immigration. If I were not in the Haven, I would just ignore whatever grouping and announcements that the Cruise Director is announcing and get in line and get off. Enjoy St. Petersburg! We loved our 2 days there! Lynne

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Did anyone make use if the pedicabs? And how much did thry charge?

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Thanks for the responses. Captain John, were you on an ncl cruise as well? Did you have to wait for the ships tours to disembark first? I wonder if we could insist to disembark with them. The private tours are aware of this process but it seems the ship is treating us poorly because we are using private tours even though we have paid for the cruise same as other passengers. If RCL is changing their policy to allow all passengers to get off simultaneously then NCL will lose alot of potential cruisers to the competition.

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For those that went on the private tours in SPB did anyone manage to get off the ship earlier? Our tour group mentioned that they are not allowed to keep you on the boat. It looks like the ships just give priority to their own tours. I am sailing in just over a week and am a bit stressed about the SPB disembarkation.

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Contact the access desk (on the following link) and they will get you set up.

https://www.ncl.com/about/accessible-cruising

Thanks BirdTravels. I will do so.

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I dont think it will hurt to just ask NCL for some onboard credit or something. Our cruise to the baltic changed the port from stockholm to nynashamn and i believe those that that booked the cruise earlier when it still reflected stockholm will get free transfers to stockholm by NCL. This was however stated on the email sent to them by the cruise line informing them of the change.

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Hi its my first time with NCL. How do i arrange for wheelchair assistance for pensioners who will find the wait/walk a little difficult? Do we arrange beforehand or on the day of the cruise during check in? With RCL we didnt use wheelchairs but they allowed us into a shorter queue with ramps and there were no stairs.

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Stromma/City Sightseeing hop on/hop off buses are running a Baltic special...buy 3 get one free. We did Copenhagen, Tallinn and Helsinki (ordered online with 10% discount). Then used the free ride in Stockholm. We were on the NCL Breakaway. The hoho buses coming to the port wouldn't honor it so used the free shuttle and train tickets to get into Stockholm and there the buses honored it.

 

 

In Tallinn we got off at the old town, walked around quite a bit then got back on to the ship. In Helsinki we got off at the Market Square, then on and off at the Stone Church and again back to the ship. In Copenhagen it is a 48 hour ticket for one or three lines. We hopped on and off several times. We even used it to get to the cruise port from our hotel. You simply take the bus that says "mermaid" to the mermaid stop. There they have a shuttle bus to Oceankaj.

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