Tag: new york city
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Make the Most of Your Port of Call in New York City
It can be overwhelming to plan shore excursions in a dynamic port of call like New York City. There’s so much to see and do, and it feels impossible to get a handle on how much you can accomplish in the time you’ll be there. These four tour types can help you make the most of it and leave you returning to your cruise ship feeling like you’ve seen it all. Hop a Bus Buses are a great way to tour Manhattan. Organized tours typically include cultural, shopping, dining, and entertainment venues, Read more […] -
Dining Cruises in New York City: A Guide
New York City, being a massive city that is in some ways built around water, has a number of different dining cruises – probably more than any other place in the United States, in fact. There are five major companies that offer dining cruises in NYC, and they offer them with regularity. Thus, on most days in New York, there are a number of different places to eat brunch, lunch, or dinner on a boat. Below we have compiled a concise guide to the dining cruises of New York City, listing the companies that offer them and what to expect on board. Read more […] -
Valentine’s Day Dinner Cruises in New York City
There are no doubt many things to do in New York City on Valentine’s Day. The city is loaded with first-rate restaurants and world-class entertainment opportunities, so a night could take any number of directions and still live up to the high romantic standards of Valentine’s Day. However, one of the more distinctive possibilities we have seen in NYC is a Valentine’s Day dinner cruise. These cruises are offered all over the world on Valentine’s Day, but there seems to be a particularly high concentration in New York City, and NYC also happens to be an especially good place to take a dinner cruise. We have collected details about the Valentine’s Day dinner cruises in NYC, and below we have organized them into a guide for easy reference. Read more […] -
Whale Watching Cruises in New York: A Guide
New York is known for many things, but one of them isn’t whale watching. However, thousands of people take whale watching cruises from New York every year, and in fact whale watching has become increasingly popular in New York thanks to a rising whale population off the coast. There is, as far as we can tell, only one whale watching company that operates out of New York – American Princess Cruises, which offers the “Whale and Dolphin Watching Adventure Cruise” – and they only operate out of one part of New York City: Riis Landing, which is on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. However, they operate for a good portion of the year, from late Spring to late Fall, and they generally offer multiple cruises a week on a large vessel, so there are plenty of whale watching cruises to be taken. Below we cover all the relevant details about these whale watching cruises in New York, giving you a guide to consult if you are interested in a largely unknown New York activity. Read more […] -
The Port City of New York: Things to Do and See Before Leaving on a Cruise
It is in many ways absurd to write about what you can see and do in New York before leaving on a cruise. One of the most famous cities in the world, bursting with culture and global significance, there is almost nothing you can’t do in New York City. For this reason, it is also somewhat questionable to refer to New York as a “port city,” as if the port is the reason New York is notable. (Then again, it is in fact a port city, and we’ve called other major cities “port cities,” so we’re comfortable Read more […] -
Cruises from New York
Cruises from New York? Is that possible? Indeed it is, as there are numerous cruises from New York every year, which are offered by at least six different cruise lines: Carnival, Norwegian, Disney, Holland America, Celebrity, and Royal Caribbean. In March alone, there were 13 cruises from New York, and there are even more leaving in the month of April. Cruises from New York travel to several different destinations, from the Caribbean to Canada, from the Bahamas to Europe. Since not many people associate New York with cruise ships (or really anything about the cruise industry), we figured it was high time for an article explaining the important details about cruises that depart from New York. (We’ll start with this one: by “cruises from New York,” we mean “cruises from New York City.” One port is in Manhattan, and there is another port for particularly large ships in Brooklyn. There is also a port in New Jersey called the Cape Liberty Cruise Port.) Read more […]
