Day excursion to Seville from Cadiz

[seapals2]

What are your experiences of doing this day trip.  It’s an 8 hour excursion with an estimated 1 1/2 hour journey each way and also includes a lunch stop.  Does this leave enough time to see the main sights on foot?  We have looked at trains as an alternative but the journey time is similar with the added responsibility of getting back to the ship on your own.  

Edited September 13, 2021 by seapals2

[elmsliebev]

On 9/13/2021 at 1:16 PM, seapals2 said:

What are your experiences of doing this day trip.  It’s an 8 hour excursion with an estimated 1 1/2 hour journey each way and also includes a lunch stop.  Does this leave enough time to see the main sights on foot?  We have looked at trains as an alternative but the journey time is similar with the added responsibility of getting back to the ship on your own.  

I've not done this trip from a ship but the main sights in Seville are close together and are well worth seeing. That said, Cadiz is a lovely little city and worth exploring in it's own right. We had 4 nights in Seville as part of a self-arranged train trip round Andalucia, and I'd go back in a heartbeat. And to Cadiz as well. 

[John Bull]

We rarely use ships' tours, but sometimes they make sense - and to us, Seville from Cadiz would be one of those times.

 

As you appreciate, by train is no quicker.

.And when using public transport for that sort of distance on a port-of-call day, we always aim to take the second-to-last suitable train (or bus or ferry), leaving the very last one in hand for any problems with the transport - or with our own map-reading, timetable-reading etc. That caution paid dividends for us once in Rome, when we fouled-up getting to the station for the train back to port.

By train may also mean relying on local transport for some sights in Seville, which will cost time.

 

To us, a guide accompanying a ship's tour group is only a small bonus & not worth the big difference between excursion fees & train fares, and an over-long lunch stop loses valuable time.

But the krunch is getting back to the ship on time, because it's a long swim to the next port. 

 

JB 🙂 

Edited September 16, 2021 by John Bull

[mskaufman]

We did a ship tour and found it well organized.  We saw just about all of the main sights and had some free time to boot.  The guides were great and we did not feel that we overpaid.