Docking location

[Lily'sMum]

Is there anything to do in the immediate vicinity to where the ships dock or tender? We'll be on the QM2 in Oct. We don't like to do excursions at each stop, so we like to know which ports you can just get off the ship and walk to something interesting for an hour or so, and which you have to travel by car to get something worth seeing/doing? Any thoughts?

 

Our other ports: Tortola, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, St. Lucia....any info. on these islands regarding the same issue is much appreciated!! TIA!

[Aplmac]

Is there anything to do in the immediate vicinity to where the ships dock or tender?

We don't like to do excursions at each stop' date=' so we like to know which ports you can just get off the ship and [b']walk [/b]to something interesting for an hour or so..

Right there in the Terminal building at Bridgetown Port are Duty Free shops,

and you haven't even stepped outside the Port, yet!

 

Outside the Port, walk another 300-400 yds. in the direction of the Bridgetown shopping area

and you'll find PELICAN VILLAGE on your left

(that's on the land side of the road, not the sea side).

Pelican Village has a restaurant and lots of handicraft and curio shops of varying content.

 

Still not happy?

Continue your walk in that same general direction

until you come to the city center and Broad Street

where you'll find more shopping,

Duty Free if you show your passport and/or ship-card.

 

At the far end of Broad Street you'll find Nelson's statue looking across Trafalgar Square.

It's been there since it was un-veiled on 23rd. March,1813,

some decades before the similar statue in London's Trafalgar Square!!

Right nearby, there's a bridge crossing the river with an Arch at its far end (see picture) -

Cross the bridge and take the short flight of steps down, to the right of the arch

and you'll be at WATERFRONT CAFE (with many stylish dress-shops nearby)

where you can have a drink after all that walking, or maybe Lunch.

 

On your way back, the boardwalk that runs along the river's edge is a nice stroll,

and you might notice helicopters taking off and landing near the Western end of the boardwalk.

They'll take you on a quick spin (20 mins.) island tour

and that'll really give you something to boast about at dinner time!

 

How's that for a boring day walking in and around Bridgetown?

 

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You asked about the same sorta day, in other islands.

St.Lucia: (the night before, I'd taken a seasick tablet,

so I wasn't feeling adventurous..)

so we got off the ship and just spent an hour or so

wandering thru the Duty Free shops of the Point Seraphine Complex,

right there at the dockside,

and then went back onboard to a near-empty ship, all our own!

 

Nice shops at Pt.Seraphine.. we bought several things!

 

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[MarriedInStThomas1807]

Is there anything to do in the immediate vicinity to where the ships dock or tender? We'll be on the QM2 in Oct. We don't like to do excursions at each stop' date=' so we like to know which ports you can just get off the ship and walk to something interesting for an hour or so, and which you have to travel by car to get something worth seeing/doing? Any thoughts?

 

Our other ports: Tortola, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, St. Lucia....any info. on these islands regarding the same issue is much appreciated!! TIA![/quote']

 

In Barbados there's only a shopping mall in the vicinity (of where we docked anyway, but you'll be on a much bigger boat) In St. Lucia I would go to Reduit Beach. It is so nice! There's this restaurant on the beach called Spinnakers Beach Bar. They have some of the best food I've ever eaten! And it's not that expensive either!