Are Royal Caribbean Excursions good value for money?
You will rarely get a discount on any ship excursion, whether you pre-book or leave it to the last minute. The cruise ship excursions are expensive and you can get them a lot cheaper by using a port company. Try looking at the port tourist information sites, you will usually find adverts for tours and excursions and links to the company websites. When we were in St Petersburg, we booked a tour from a website. It went to all the same places as the ships tour, the meals were good and you got exactly what it said on the web-site. In fact we met a lot of people from the ships tour as we were travelling around. Our tour was £100 a head cheaper than the ship’s excursion. The reason that people spend the extra money to take a ships tour, is that, if something goes wrong on the tour and you are delayed getting back, the ship will wait on you. If you doing it yourself, the ship won’t wait, you’re on your own. It’s entirely up to you, it depends on how confident you are on getting around in a st
