In-depth guides to the world's best cruise ports: things to do, shore excursions, beaches, restaurants and getting around.
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Fuerteventura's greatest draw is simple: the dune landscape at Corralejo in the north, protected as a natural park, has the quality of a small corner of the Sahara deposited on an Atlantic island. The quiet historic interior around Betancuria offers…
Lanzarote's centre is covered by 51 square kilometres of black and red lava fields formed in eruptions between 1730 and…
Your complete guide to Saranda (Sarandë) cruise port, Albania: walking the Lungomare promenade, reaching the UNESCO site at Butrint independently,…
Tenerife is the most varied of the Canary Islands as a port day, and the first choice shapes everything. Teide,…
Your complete guide to Koper cruise port, Slovenia: walking the Venetian old town, the practical realities of a Piran or…
Las Palmas gives you a proper city: Playa de las Canteras, a three-kilometre reef-protected beach in the north, and Vegueta,…
Everything you need for a Cadiz port day: walking the old town from the dock, the cathedral and Torre Tavira,…
Venice no longer allows large cruise ships into the historic lagoon. Ships now dock at Porto Marghera on the mainland,…
Lisbon spreads across seven hills above the Tagus, and moving between the Alfama, Belém, and the historic centre takes longer…
Kotor's medieval old town sits two minutes from the gangway, enclosed in walls that climb the cliff face behind the…
Split's Diocletian's Palace is not a museum — it is a living neighbourhood where restaurants, apartments, and a cathedral converted…
Dubrovnik's Old Town sits behind limestone walls built in the 14th century, and walking the 1.9 km circuit along the…
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