North Sea & Channel Cruise Route Guide: Southampton to the Continent
A complete guide to the short-break North Sea and Channel cruise route from Southampton, calling at Le Havre, Zeebrugge for Bruges, Amsterdam and Hamburg over five to seven nights.
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Northern Europe
Cruise route guides and port guides for the Northern Europe.
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Cruise Routes
British Isles Cruise Route Guide: Southampton Round-Britain
A complete guide to round-Britain cruising in 2026: the typical clockwise itinerary from Southampton, the twelve ports it strings together,…
Baltic Sea Cruise Guide: Copenhagen, Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki and the Hanseatic Capitals
Your complete guide to a Baltic Sea cruise: Copenhagen, Warnemünde, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Klaipėda, Gdańsk, Visby and Kiel. Itineraries,…
Port Guides
Amsterdam Cruise Port Guide: A Day Ashore on the IJ
The Passenger Terminal Amsterdam sits ten minutes' walk from Centraal Station and twenty from Dam Square, giving ship passengers an…
Belfast Cruise Port Guide: Terminals, Titanic Quarter & the Giant’s Causeway
Your complete guide to Belfast cruise port: which terminal your ship uses (VT3, Stormont Wharf, VT4), getting into the city…
Cobh Cruise Port Guide: Titanic’s Last Call, Cork City and Blarney by Train
Cobh was Titanic's last port of call, and the 123 passengers who boarded on 11 April 1912 left from the…
Copenhagen Cruise Port Guide: From Oceankaj to Tivoli, Nyhavn and the Little Mermaid
Your complete guide to Copenhagen cruise port: getting from Oceankaj to the city centre, Tivoli Gardens, Nyhavn and the Little…
Dublin Cruise Port Guide: Alexandra Quay, Trinity College and a Day in the Irish Capital
Your complete guide to Dublin cruise port: the Alexandra Basin terminal, the shuttle and Luas into the city centre, Trinity…
Edinburgh Cruise Port Guide: Four Berths on the Forth and a Day in Scotland’s Capital
Your complete guide to cruising into Edinburgh: which of the four Forth berths your ship will use (Newhaven, Leith, South…
Falmouth Cruise Port Guide: Pendennis, Truro and the Cornish Coast
Falmouth sits on the third deepest natural harbour in the world, which is why it has been a working port…
Gdańsk Cruise Port Guide: Long Market, the Main Town and Malbork Castle
Your complete guide to Gdańsk (Gdansk) cruise port: the Westerplatte berths 7 to 8 km from the Main Town, the…
Greenock Cruise Port Guide: Glasgow, Loch Lomond and the Firth of Clyde
Your complete guide to Greenock cruise port, the gateway to Glasgow: the Ocean Terminal arrangement, the train into Glasgow city…
Hamburg Cruise Port Guide: Speicherstadt, Elbphilharmonie and Miniatur Wunderland
Hamburg has three cruise terminals strung along the Elbe, and which one you berth at changes the day entirely: HafenCity…
Helsinki Cruise Port Guide: Suomenlinna, Senate Square and a Finnish Capital Day Ashore
Your complete guide to Helsinki cruise port: getting from Hernesaari and Katajanokka to the centre, Suomenlinna fortress, Helsinki Cathedral, the…
Holyhead Cruise Port Guide: Snowdonia, Caernarfon and the Edwardian Castles of North Wales
Holyhead is on Anglesey, and the island is a gateway rather than a destination: Caernarfon and Beaumaris, two of Edward…
Invergordon Cruise Port Guide: Inverness, Loch Ness and the Highlands
Invergordon is a working deepwater port on the Cromarty Firth with very little to detain you in the town itself,…
Kiel Cruise Port Guide: Ostseekai, the Laboe Memorial and a German Baltic Embark Day
Your complete guide to Kiel cruise port: the Ostseekai terminal a short walk from the city centre, the Laboe Naval…
Kirkwall Cruise Port Guide: Skara Brae, St Magnus and the Neolithic West
Skara Brae was lived in five thousand years ago and is older than both Stonehenge and the pyramids at Giza,…
Klaipėda Cruise Port Guide: The Curonian Spit, Old Town and Lithuania’s Baltic Front Door
Your complete guide to Klaipėda cruise port: the central Pempininkai quay, the foot ferry across to the UNESCO Curonian Spit,…
Le Havre Cruise Port Guide: Paris, Normandy and Perret’s Reconstruction
Le Havre was flattened in 1944 and rebuilt in reinforced concrete by Auguste Perret, and the result is now UNESCO-listed,…
Lerwick Cruise Port Guide: Jarlshof, Sumburgh Head and the Shetland Capital
Lerwick is closer to Bergen than to Edinburgh, and Shetland's Norse inheritance is plain in the street names and the…
Liverpool Cruise Port Guide: Princes Parade, the Three Graces and Albert Dock
Liverpool ties up at Princes Parade directly in front of the Three Graces, which makes it one of the very…
Portland Cruise Port Guide: Jurassic Coast, Weymouth and Beyond
Portland Port sits at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast, England's only natural World Heritage Site, where 185 million…
Reykjavik Cruise Port Guide: Hallgrimskirkja, Harpa, the Golden Circle and the Walk Into Town
Reykjavik berths ships at Skarfabakki, three kilometres from the centre, which makes the walk into town a genuine decision rather…
Riga Cruise Port Guide: Art Nouveau, the Old Town and a Latvian Capital on Foot
Your complete guide to Riga cruise port: the Riga Passenger Terminal beside the Old Town, the Art Nouveau quarter, the…
Stockholm Cruise Port Guide: Stadsgården, Gamla Stan and the Vasa Museum
Your complete guide to Stockholm cruise port: the central Stadsgården quay beside the Old Town, the Vasa Museum on Djurgården,…
Tallinn Cruise Port Guide: Old City Harbour, the UNESCO Old Town and a Day in Estonia
Your complete guide to Tallinn cruise port: the Old City Harbour beside the UNESCO Old Town, the new Tram 2…
Visby Cruise Port Guide: The Medieval City Wall, Gotlands Museum and the Hanseatic Old Town
Your complete guide to Visby cruise port on Gotland: a short walk into the UNESCO-listed medieval Old Town, the Ringmuren…
Warnemünde Cruise Port Guide: Berlin Day Trip, Rostock Old Town and the Baltic Beach
Your complete guide to Warnemünde cruise port: the Cruise Center berths, the S-Bahn to Rostock in 21 minutes, the long…
Zeebrugge Cruise Port Guide: Bruges, Ghent and the Belgian Coast
Zeebrugge is a container port with nothing to detain you, and everyone aboard is going to Bruges, 15 kilometres inland,…