Cairns Cruise Reviews

We've done the area previously- but new visitors - get on a tour and get out of town there is nothing much in Cairns itself. ...

Why tender to Yorky's Knob instead of Cairns town centre? There is nothing to do at Yorky's Knob. Terrible tender service. ...

Nice City centre and ammeneties ...

Docked in at yorkey knobs nothing there , bus ride to cairns about 45 minutes away , nothing in cairns city centre. ...

Enjoyed shopping in Kuranda. ...

Cairns is not a particularly attractive city, lots of backpackers and families. The attractions are obviously the reef and hinterland. No point in lingering in Cairns and again,gouged for shuttle bus.m ...

Very smooth embarcation. ...

A lovely city ...

We did our own trip on the Kuranda scenic railway. This was easy to book on the internet direct. We also purchased tickets for the sky rail to return back down to Cairns. There is some souvenir shopping and cafes in Kuranda. We thought 1-1.5hrs would be enough for us there and proved right. ...

You cannot put "CAIRNS" as a port of call when you tender into "YORKEY'S KNOB" they are two different cities with a distance between them. The tendering into port was a horribly long 3 hour process. The tendering back to the ship was even worse with 3 hours of waiting in a long line in the HEAT!! On top of that NCL should have provided the transportation to "CAIRNS" the port actually listed. Not ...