Category: Best Caribbean Cruise Excursions

Our first port of call on our P&O Arvia Caribbean cruise was the British Virgin Island of Tortola. We hadn’t booked a P&O cruise excursion in Tortola, as we’d read that it’s easy enough to visit the Virgin Gorda baths yourself independently, so we decided to make our own way over to Virgin Gorda from Tortola by ferry. The beautiful…

For our shore excursion in the Dominican Republic on our P&O Arvia Caribbean cruise, we’d picked to do the Saona Island excursion 'Escape to Saona Island' with P&O. It promised a full day with all the things we’d hoped for on a day trip in the Caribbean - boat rides, snorkelling, all food and drink catered and remote island beaches…

With most of our shore excursions on our P&O Arvia Caribbean cruise being beach-based, we wanted to pick something a bit different for our excursion in St Martin, so decided to do the zipline excursion in St Marton at Rocklands Estate, booked direct through P&O. Rocklands Estate is a kind of adventure park set in the forests of St Martin.…

For our stop in Antigua, we’d booked another excursion with P&O - this time the ‘Stingray Sensation’ excursion, which takes you to the so-called ‘Stingray City’, where you get to swim and interact with stingray on a sandbank just out off the coast of Antigua. The Stingray City excursion turned out to be one of the coolest, most fun things…

We’d spent the morning in Antigua doing one of the most fun holiday excursions we’ve ever done at Stingray City and, with the afternoon free, wanted something else to fill the time before heading back to P&O Arvia for an evening departure. While we were at Stingray City, we noticed a leaflet advertising a snorkelling tour at Galleon Beach in…

We’d heard that Les Salines beach is the most beautiful beach in Martinique, but it’s quite a long way from the cruise port and not that easy to get to. But the photos we’d seen and reviews we’d read, combined with there not being a huge amount of places to visit in the immediate Martinique cruise port area, meant we…

For our stop at St Lucia on our Caribbean cruise on P&O Arvia, we wanted to visit the familiar sight of the Pitons - the twin mountain peaks that are St Lucia’s most-famous landmark, so we booked an independent excursion with the Caribbean tour company called ‘Caribbean Tours You Save They Benefit’. The excursion is called the ‘Land and Sea…

Our last day of our Caribbean cruise on P&O Arvia arrived as we docked back where we started in Barbados. We had a full day and night in port before leaving the next morning so decided to make the most of being able to be out later in the evening and booked a sunset catamaran tour - an independent excursion…