Pier transfer-shuttle charges: Dubrovnik etc.

[woodofpine]

We're hitting a few ports that may require town shuttle... Dubrovnik, maybe Izmir, Bari...

 

I understand that MSC doesn't provide these free. Does anyone have experience with these ports and the shuttle charges to expect?

[AmoMondo]

i haven't been to Izmir. When we called at Dubrovnik (on the Opera) it anchored ofshore and tendered us in to the heart of the city so we did not need a shuttle. In bari we were booked on a shore excursion.

From my experience of various other Med cruises (and elsewhwere) where they provide a shuttle, the cheapest has been 6 euros, some 8 and one (Marseille) 10.

 

Hopefully someone else will have called at these ports recently and be able to give you the exact prices.

[Gelbel]

We were on the Opera last October and we docked at the port. We got a shuttle bus into the old town and I think it was about €6 each return (may have been less though as we'd doubled up with a lovely couple we met and shared a cab).

 

There was loads of shuttles going backwards and forwards all day.

[woodofpine]

The transfer charges can tip things in favor of a line excursion at times if one is strictly 'bean counting' (never a good idea to be too strict).

 

Curious...

 

In Bari, the old town appears to be directly adjacent the port - piers. Granted piers can be several hundred meters, but did MSC use the pier branching out from old Barivecchia - or was it the piers further to the north a half mile or so...?? Do you recollect?

 

In Izmir - there appears to be a pier/terminal right adjacent Konak square then the larger industrial port with heavy mixed use facilities is further away. Anyone with insight as to where the cruise ships dock?