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Welcome to Newport Cruise Ship Tours Passengers!

 
Convenient transportation to your Newport cruise ship tours

Trolley Tours operate every day through October 31st. We hope you enjoy your call to our city!

Explore the Grandeur

Viking Tours – Newport Cruise Ship Tours

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Newport is referred to as tender port – there is no Cruise Ship Dock in Newport and your cruise ship will anchor in Narragansett Bay and passengers will come ashore in the smaller tender boats. These shore excursions in Newport can be a wonderful experience when traveling to Rhode Island. Travel time from the ship’s anchorage to the pier in Newport is 10 – 20 minutes, depending on anchorage location. Most of the time Cruise Ship Tender boats will begin bringing passengers into shore after 8:00-8:30 a.m.

Our trolley tours depart from the Newport Transportation Center at bus platform #3 (Previously the Gateway Center), 23 America’s Cup Avenue. Which is just one short block north of the cruise ship tender landing!  After reaching the dock head to your left and look for the Brenton & Newport Marriott Hotel.  The Newport Bus & Transportation Center is adjacent to the Newport Marriott Hotel.  We pick up on the backside of the building alongside Americas Cup Avenue across from Cardines Baseball Field.

On days when cruise ships are in port, and since Newport is a tender port, some guests might experience brief delays getting off of the cruise ship and into Newport for selected Newport cruise ship tours. Unfortunately, we cannot accept your ticket for a tour time other than the one purchased.   We also sell out our Trolley tours on most days regularly but dates in which Large Cruise Ships are in we generally sell out well in the future.  On most Newport cruise ship tours days we try to add additional tour times to our trolleys to accommodate these passengers. Newport is very busy in the fall, even on days without Newport cruise ship tours.

Tours with Mansion Visits

For trolley tours that include a mansion visit, there may be a wait in line to enter the mansion. Once inside, the normal time of the walking tour through the mansion is 45 minutes – 1 hour. Please note that our Tour #3 (Vanderbilts 2 house Newport Tour) is usually only available at 12:30 and on a very busy day, with traffic, the trolley may not be back to the Newport Bus & Transportation Center before 5:00. In general, this may be too late for you to catch that last tender boat, so we do not recommend this tour option for cruise ship tour passengers. Although we try our best to keep on schedule, we are not responsible for “missed connections” due to traffic, mansion lines, etc.

Tours operate every day through October 31st. We hope you enjoy your call to our city!