Isafjörður, Iceland: Small cruise ships can dock instead of tender

[fstuff1]

I'm in Ísafjörður today on celebrity summit.

Island princess is also here.

We are both tendering in the harbor.

 

Then comes little Azuma strutting pass us into port and docking!

 

[nansi]

1 hour ago, fstuff1 said:

I'm in Ísafjörður today on celebrity summit.

Island princess is also here.

We are both tendering in the harbor.

 

Then comes little Azuma strutting pass us into port and docking!

 

You get what you pay for?

 

[fstuff1]

47 minutes ago, nansi said:

You get what you pay for?

 

 

dont know what you mean?

azuma is a luxury cruise line compared to celebrity + princess

[CruiserBruce]

1 hour ago, nansi said:

You get what you pay for?

 

The port is pretty small. The dock could probably handle the larger ships, but moving around in the port would not be easy...not sure any of those larger ships could safely spin in the harbor, so the larger ships would have to either back in, or back out.

 

Also, the channel in is not very wide.

[nansi]

7 hours ago, fstuff1 said:

 

dont know what you mean?

azuma is a luxury cruise line compared to celebrity + princess

you just answered your own question.

[Cruise Wonderland]

It is simply because of the ship's size.

 

Also I believe there are only 1 berth for medium size ships and 2 berths for tiny ships. If 2 Azamara ships arrives on the same day, then 1 of them still has to anchor at sea.

 

I was there on Aug 3rd. Even as large as Holland America Zaandam could moor at the pier. Our Norwegian Star was at anchor.

 

[CruiserBruce]

6 hours ago, Cruise Wonderland said:

It is simply because of the ship's size.

 

Also I believe there are only 1 berth for medium size ships and 2 berths for tiny ships. If 2 Azamara ships arrives on the same day, then 1 of them still has to anchor at sea.

 

I was there on Aug 3rd. Even as large as Holland America Zaandam could moor at the pier. Our Norwegian Star was at anchor.

 

We were there about 10 days before you on N. Statendam. We were the only ship there, and we anchored out. Too large to get into the harbor. Its a smalltown with limited tourism infrastructure. I can't imagine 2 or 3 ships there.

[fstuff1]

7 hours ago, CruiserBruce said:

We were there about 10 days before you on N. Statendam. We were the only ship there, and we anchored out. Too large to get into the harbor. Its a smalltown with limited tourism infrastructure. I can't imagine 2 or 3 ships there.

 

when i was there, 3 ships with 2 anchored.

The restaurant I went to for lunch opens at 11:30am according to google.

I got there are 11:20 and they were allowing people in.

 

at 11:45 they were completely full.

there were only 2 waitresses and 1 cook for like 20 tables!

they didnt expect so many people (weekday) nor did they know 3 ships were coming today.

 

fortunately, most of us were waiting for our 1pm 3rd party tour and ordered beer, soup, and/or a burger.

 

When I left, there was a 3rd waitress.

 

[thehowlingroad]

Enchanted Princess was the only ship in harbor on 7/30 and we still anchored off-shore due to size. Beautiful little port on a sunny day, but with very limited harbor infrastructure, so it makes sense that the large ships have to run tenders.

[IWantToLiveOverTheSea]

Viking Ocean's ships dock there, too.  They're larger and with more passengers than Azamara.  It was great docking there, especially if a person wanted to take a boat trip to Vigur Island or somewhere else.  It was about a block long walk to the little pier for that.  

 

If you want to see ships docked in Isafjordur (and the little pier I'm talking about), there's a great webcam that shows where they dock. 

[Capt_BJ]

link to the cam might have been nice . . 

[Nitemare]

41 minutes ago, Capt_BJ said:

link to the cam might have been nice . . 

Easily googled.  I'm sure anyone who wants to see it can find it