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Travel Tip: New Cruises That Stay in Port Overnight

Locations in this article:  Barcelona, Spain Cape Town, South Africa Florence, Italy Rome, Italy Sydney, Australia Venice, Italy

royal caribbeanIf there’s one big complaint among cruisers, it’s that they only get limited time to spend in port.

Most cruise ships will pull into a port in the morning and depart by evening. That means you have to time your shore excursion carefully and usually miss out on nighttime activities.

But there are a handful of cruises that stay in port overnight—so you can spend more time on land.

Oceania Cruises has a Northern Lights cruise this summer that overnights in a really unusual place: the Solovetsky Islands in Russia, just below the Arctic Circle.

Royal Caribbean also spends a night in Russia—in St. Petersburg, to be exact. You dock at 8 a.m. and depart the next day at 6 p.m.

On Royal Caribbean’s twelve-­night cruise from Barcelona, you stop in cities like Nice, Florence, and Rome, followed by an overnighter in Venice.

Cunard has overnight stays in Sydney and Singapore, and even a double overnight call in Cape Town, South Africa.

It’s never enough time to fully immerse yourself in a city, but it’s a start.

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