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Thanks to everyone on their comments about the Crown Princess. I can't
wait to do my Baltic cruise. My wife and three-year-old will be with us. We'll be doing Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Talinn, Gdansk and St. Petersburg. Ok guys...what are your suggestions for shore excursions? Thanks! ~Rick www.greenlight-travel.com |
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we're doing the same itinerary next summer. it's a very full day port
intensive itinerary. having cruised with our son since he was 2 I would be a bit concerned about full days with a 3 yr old. especially in st petersburg. i would try to do a private tour and not make it as packed as most will. usually it's a 8am to 5pm day both days!! in and out of museums, churches etc. the other ports you can do on your own on tailor to how your child is reacting sheree "Green Light Travel" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks to everyone on their comments about the Crown Princess. I can't wait to do my Baltic cruise. My wife and three-year-old will be with us. We'll be doing Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Talinn, Gdansk and St. Petersburg. Ok guys...what are your suggestions for shore excursions? Thanks! ~Rick www.greenlight-travel.com |
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On Sep 25, 6:40 pm, Steph Peters
wrote: (Jeff Gersten) of WebTV Subscriber wrote: (Green Light Travel) wrote: Thanks to everyone on their comments about the Crown Princess. I can't wait to do my Baltic cruise. My wife and three-year-old will be with us. We'll be doing Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Talinn, Gdansk and St. Petersburg. Ok guys...what are your suggestions for shore excursions? I got back a couple of weeks ago from a Baltic cruise with Fred Olsen which did some of those ports. St. Petersburg----use one of the private tour companies. We used Alla and were very happy with the service. DenRus and Red October also seem to get very good reviews. Seconded. We used Denrus and were very pleased, got to do at least twice as much as people on ships excursions. St Petersburg is very much museums, palaces and churches. One exception is a canal boat trip, about an hour. Unfortunately it was cold and raining when we did ours, but if you have better weather it would be worthwhile. Helsinki---the Temppeliauko Church was impressive. It is a church carved out of rock with a roof that is a 13 mile long coil of copper. It is impressive, but not so sure it's for a three year old. The Sibelius monument probably would interest a child, and it's set in a park where he can run around. Don't miss coffee and cinnamon rolls at the Regatta cafe on the shore on the far side of the road from the Sibelius monument. If you decide to go out to the island of Suomenlina then make sure you set off early in the day; the sailings around lunch time were jam packed full on a Saturday. Day public transport tickets are 6 Euros for adults from the tourist information office. Oslo---I would recommend the sculpture park, Frogner Park. I also enjoyed the sculpture park, but the outdoor museum of culture with lots of old buildings was even better. Some of the buildings have the interiors set up too, your child would probably like the old sweet shop. For kids the best attraction is probably the Viking boat museum, which is pretty much adjacent to the culture museum. Buy a public transport day ticket in the 7-11 store, no need to pay excursion fees as everything is in easy reach. And the ATMs are in the same stores (weird setup, couldn't find ATMs at the banks!). Gdansk Are you docking at Gdynia? If so then it's about 20 miles to Gdansk. Our ship had a shuttle bus from the dock into Gdynia town. Get some currency from an ATM, buy some sweets in the covered market to get some change, then go to the station and put an extortionate 4 zlotys (bit less than a pound) into the machine to buy your train ticket into Gdansk. The machines have Awesome suggestions, guys! I appreciate it! English, you just need to spot 'billetje' or something like that to find them. We wandered around the rebuilt town centre looking at replicas of the old buildings, including a very interesting '15th century' crane. There are boat trips up the river which goes to the place where the first shots were fired in the second world war, and past where Solidarity began. Unfortunately commentary was only in Polish, I'd been hoping it would be in German too. -- Those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have learned when to say yes, when to say no and when to say whoopee. W.S. Krabill Steph Peters delete invalid from Tatting, lace & stitching page http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm |
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Stockholm has an amusement park that might be fun. Hard Rock Cafe for
t-shirts. In Copenhagen, walk to see the Little Mermaid, then wander down to Nyhavn, and then walk to Tivoli Garden. Grab a taxi back it it's too much walking. Tivoli Garden has a Hard Rock. Tallin was just a fun walking around place. Old timey city. Oslo has a beautiful port area and you can wander the streets and find some nice stores. Get a nice Norwegian sweater. Also has a Hard Rock. St. Petersburg... unless you do either Red October or Denrus, just stick with the ship excursions. Helsinki... didn't care for Helsinki. Found it kind of boring. --Tom "Green Light Travel" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks to everyone on their comments about the Crown Princess. I can't wait to do my Baltic cruise. My wife and three-year-old will be with us. We'll be doing Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Talinn, Gdansk and St. Petersburg. Ok guys...what are your suggestions for shore excursions? Thanks! ~Rick www.greenlight-travel.com |
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On Sep 24, 9:38?pm, Green Light Travel wrote:
Thanks to everyone on their comments about the Crown Princess. I can't wait to do my Baltic cruise. My wife and three-year-old will be with us. We'll be doing Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Talinn, Gdansk and St. Petersburg. Ok guys...what are your suggestions for shore excursions? Thanks! ~Rick www.greenlight-travel.com Helsinki has a wonderful zoo on Korkesaari Island, just a short ferry ride from the harbor. Your little three-year-old may enjoy both the zoo and the ferry! ~Anka |
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