Docking in Santiago de Cuba

[RTLS]

We will be on the Sirena next February and have an overnight there. We arrive at noon on day 1 and hoping we can take a walk off the ship for a couple of hours before going on an evening tour. I've heard that we may be docked in an "unsavoury" area. Can anyone tell me where we will dock and what we might see if we walk off the ship.

 

Thank you

[studebhawk]

1 hour ago, RTLS said:

We will be on the Sirena next February and have an overnight there. We arrive at noon on day 1 and hoping we can take a walk off the ship for a couple of hours before going on an evening tour. I've heard that we may be docked in an "unsavoury" area. Can anyone tell me where we will dock and what we might see if we walk off the ship.

 

Thank you

We were on Sirena for the New Year's cruise to Cuba. The ship was great, but, this port area was not. We did a ship tour of downtown Santiago. It was very nice, however, our own native tour guide, a resident of the city, told us not to walk off the ship in this area. There was nothing to see, and, it was far from the center of the city. Do an escorted tour. 

This cruise was excellent. Enjoy!

[RTLS]

Thanks studebhawk.

 

We will definitely been taking your advice. No wandering off by ourselves!

[RJB]

We took one of the O Life tours here and it was very good.   Did not get a chance to look around the dock area very much so I could not tell how it was.  The places they took us to were very nice and I would take one of these tours again.