SeanAndShelley Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 First of all, thank you very much to all the extremely helpful people on this site. It is very much appreciated. We are booked on the June 4th New England/Canada cruise on Adventure of the Sea. It is just my wife and myself. So, just a couple of excursion questions... - Acadia National Park (Bar Harbor, Maine) - Worth seeing? - Peggy's Cove (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Worth seeing? - For both of these, is it necessary to book the RCI excursion? Or can you just catch an Uber/taxi at the dock to these locations and back? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzywuzzy Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 RE: Acadia National Park. I took this picture with my phone there (Cadillac Mountain) last August. That's Adventure in the pond. Your option. Lovetocruise2002, brianmorris, Thecatlady and 2 others 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 @Fuzzywuzzy it was because of your picture that you posted a few months ago that I booked that excursion! What a view! Fuzzywuzzy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FManke Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 5 hours ago, SeanAndShelley said: First of all, thank you very much to all the extremely helpful people on this site. It is very much appreciated. We are booked on the June 4th New England/Canada cruise on Adventure of the Sea. It is just my wife and myself. So, just a couple of excursion questions... - Acadia National Park (Bar Harbor, Maine) - Worth seeing? - Peggy's Cove (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Worth seeing? - For both of these, is it necessary to book the RCI excursion? Or can you just catch an Uber/taxi at the dock to these locations and back? Thanks. Both are musts, if you ask me. The one thing I would say about Peggy's Cove is that I would suggest taking an excursion that just focused the trip at Peggy's Cove. We took an all day excursion with multiple spots and only got about 45min at Peggy's cove when we could have easily spent 3hrs there. I'm not sure about a taxi/Uber, we took an excursion through RC and if I recall it's at least a 45-60min drive. Acadia is absolutely breathtaking with a lot of different excursion options. There is a bike rental Pedego Electric Bikes right in town that has like half day electric bike rentals for like $60. Might be an option for you took explore the park on your own, if that's your kind of thing. Happy cruising! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 Please go to Acadia National Park. It is very beautiful and relaxing. We are booked on Empress in 2021. FManke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 6 hours ago, SeanAndShelley said: First of all, thank you very much to all the extremely helpful people on this site. It is very much appreciated. We are booked on the June 4th New England/Canada cruise on Adventure of the Sea. It is just my wife and myself. So, just a couple of excursion questions... - Acadia National Park (Bar Harbor, Maine) - Worth seeing? - Peggy's Cove (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Worth seeing? - For both of these, is it necessary to book the RCI excursion? Or can you just catch an Uber/taxi at the dock to these locations and back? Thanks. We're doing these ports on a 9 night in July. We are doing both those excursions and we booked it through Royal. After much research and help from many here, for Bar Harbor, we booked the Ultimate Island Experience. We picked this one because it's a smaller group and it still leaves us time in the afternoon to explore on our own. For Halifax, we booked "Halifax Highlights and Peggy's Cove". Again we liked this one since it would take us out to Peggy's Cove but it's only half a day and that gives us time in downtown Halifax, which we want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD1157 Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 My wife and I did the Best of Acadia national Park and Cadillac Mountain through Royal Caribbean. They took us to the Bar Harbor Lobster Bake for lunch on this tour it was delicious! We loved this excursion. Day 8 Bar Harbor, Maine 2018-09-24.pdf teddy and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenCP Posted February 21, 2020 Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 @SeanAndShelley Peggy's Cove is a one hour drive with no traffic, so it can take a little longer. It is approximately 50m from the port. It is worth the trip, most likely be cheaper as an excursion where it is only 2 people. Cape Breton is Beautiful place and Acadia National Park is well worth it. Rental Cars in North Sydney where you dock or sometimes have to tender are very scarce that time of the year, so if you were going to book a rental I would do it in advance, not difficult to find your way around but less stressful by doing a excursion. Can not help with Bar Harbour I have not been there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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