The 5 Most Unfriendly Cruise Ports I Have Ever Visited
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- We have been cruising for a few decades now and have visited many cruise ports. We have had some great experiences meeting locals, and a few not so great experiences. So, here are five of the cruise ports that were on the more "unfriendly" side of things.
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Nassau
I haven't really been to an unfriendly port, but there are some ports that I don't really care for.
Goa India - very pushy vendors, thought one lady was going to push me down because I would not buy from her. Also Egypt, vendor by the Pyramids totally scared me. I just stayed learning again the bus by the door.
NEW YORK
BELIZE & JAMAICA Hate them both
Yrs ago, the vendors at Dunn's River Falls near Ocho Rios, Jamaica, would chase you down the street harassing you to buy something. We were even warned not to look at anyone because they would chase you for money!
Still love it though! Just say NO!
They’re the worst. Won’t get off the ship there and try to avoid itineraries with it as port of call
Our worst experiences were on Nassau, Bahamas. The vendors at the Haymarket were relentless. One woman put a curse on my mother when I wouldn't buy a sweatshirt I looked at.😮
Recently walking out of the straw market, vendor yelled at me, you come to my Island, you buy nothing! I let her know in my best West Indian accent “me not buy nuttin from tu”
@@cherylsmith419agreed, straw markets there very aggressive and expensive!!
agreed, awful place
@@cherylsmith419 Absolutely! Yelling at me gets you no where. Basically tend to go to vendors who are not bullying people. While the other's look dumbfounded. PEACE=PROFIT
Definitely Nassau, don't think we will ever get off the ship again. Twice bitten!
Thank you! Lately on the news, there seems to be an increase in anti-cruise and general anti-tourist sediment expressed from many different popular destinations. For myself and those I care about, I really only want to visit places where I am welcome and feel safe.
Martinique is by far the rudest cruise port we've ever been to in over 20 cruises. The cab drivers at the port as well as the shopkeepers in town need some charm school training! If we ever find ourselves on a cruise ship that calls on this port we'll be enjoying the ship for the day.
Agree, was a horrible experience for our little group, one of which spoke French but that didn't help much, they told us right to our face that we were not wanted on their island. We left immediately with our money we didn't spend there!
#2 Belize and #1 Jamaica. We have been there several time. More than aggressive down right scary. We just stay on the ship or in port and enjoy our selves.
St Petersburg for me. Stone faced port immigration authorities, they don’t smile, barely acknowledge you while they stamp your passport. The place is drab and uninviting. We were lined up waiting to get into the Hermitage museum and a vendor was trying to sell his Russian dolls. A guy in the queue showed interest in them so the vendor spreads out a blanket and takes all these dolls apart and lays them out. The guy didn’t buy them and the vendor got quite nasty with him. Didn’t help that he had a terribly scarred face and looked quite scary. There were a lot of people milling around who did not look like they belonged there. Our table companion from the ship had his wallet stolen in the museum. The cultural attractions in St Petersburg are wasted there, imho.
On my return to the ship in St. Petersburg, I was for some reason pulled aside they, recognize I was retired military, and pulled me aside for an hour, questioning me and having me complete paperwork and photos of all my IDs, it was pretty scary! Despite the beauty of the Hermitage and St. Petersburg, We have no need to go back! It felt safe once we cleared Russian territorial waters.
St Petersburg for me, too. I took excursions with a private company and they were fantastic. There were only 18 of us and our guide and driver spoke fluent English, were very knowledgeable and fun to be around. The port authorities were as described in the previous post - unsmiling, unfriendly and contemptuous.
I would definitely agree about the immigration for Saint Petersburg. There were women there that was checking out, and for some reason they were just very rude and cold to us.
Honestly, the entire Caribbean isn't really safe these days and after my 2nd stop at Nassau, I'll never get off the boat again there.
I loved Puerto Rico
And the US is lol😅
I stay on the ship in Nassau👍❤️
We went to St. Kitts for a friend’s destination wedding. I definitely see why you listed it because the locals really didn’t want tourists invading their island and appeared to resent our presence in town. We stayed with Marriott on that trip.
I was just in St. Kitts last month and everyone was very friendly with us!
Cartagena, Colombia had the most aggressive vendors. Our excursion guide gave advice on dealing with them, but it made for an exhausting experience.
100% this is my NO 1 by a LONG shot!
I completely agree. They walk next to you, chase you down continuously trying to sell you anything. They do not take a NO for an answer. What saved my husband and I is the fact that I’m a Spanish speaker and in a very stern voice and face I asked them to stop. Also, I let them know how annoying and disrespectful they were. It's so sad because Cartagena is a beautiful city. It reminds me a lot of where I was born and grew up, Puerto Rico.
💔 St. Kitts. In the 80’s it was so laid back, people just happy to see you. “Don’t Stop the Carnival”. We stayed at a guest house on Nevis, near Pinneys beach & the owner would come get us when the Fishermen brought her fish, she pan fried it for dinner. So sad those days are lost.
Mine was Cozumel at the port they kept bothering us about taking their tour I told them no Thank you we had a tour set up. They kept saying we are better then them all in English finally I told them in my perfect Spanish that I was not interested and their jaw dropped I am American but my first language is Spanish lol
Oh yea they don't expect you to speak it at all.
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Key West also has GROUPS of protesters at the cruise port.
Cozumel me and my husband purchased an excursion from Carnival to a beach, we were ready to go back to the cruise port, they told us we have to wait an hour. That didn’t go well with my husband. We were told if we were ready to go the van runs every 30 minutes. That didn’t happen on our end the young lady got someone to take us back to the port in a taxi cab. I feel Cozumel wasn’t that friendly to us.
Nassau is a port I do not care to visit again. I did not have a good experience with those people. Cozumel had very pushy salespeople. They did not like to hear NO!
Jamaica vendors are aggressive and threatening. Been there twice with the same results. Will stay on the ship if we end up there again and/or skip any itinerary that includes Jamaica.
Yes , we stay on board ..Any Jamaica ports .....
I'd never go there m
Agreed. Only took me one time. The Dunns River Falls artisans gauntlet was enough for us. Don't want to do that again. 2nd time there, we stayed aboard once we saw there weren't any vendors on the pier itself.
Same here, I always felt I had to have my guard up. The souvenirs are junk, and vendors are pushy, no reason to visit again.
I’ve only cruised once and Jamaica was the stop that terrified me and hooked me. Where I lived, people kept about 3 feet between strangers. And when you tell a vendor no, they find someone else.
Coming out of the waterfalls all I remember is faces with trinkets in my face. I also got to see the tin roof that covered what I would call a handball court where the kids in primary school had their classes. I got offered marijuana for the first time in my life! 😂
When I go back though, I’ll be staying with a friends family, not going to a sea port.
I won’t even get off the ship in Jamaica. The aggression to get us to buy things is insane and rude. Close second is Nassau.
Nassau is my nemesis. I have traveled there since 1985, well before the cruise terminal had any upgrades (even calling a terminal is 50 steps up). The main area the I find most annoying is the “Straw Market”. After about 1 land trip and 2 trips by ship, I have never set foot on their soil again.
We got off the ship at Nassau this past March and stayed inside the new port area. We felt safe and we were not harrassed. It was a huge improvement.
Juneau and Sitka both had a hostile vibe, especially in the restaurants. Cozumel had very aggressive street vendors.
I'd rather stay on the ship than deal with that.
Los angeles was unfriendly.. they had us wait in a construction zone for our excursion. The cruise staff found us seats in a side area and asked us to move there
.. port staff came running over and started screaming at us. They could have handled it better for sure.
but on the whole Americans run a very polite society
Cozumel, D.R. and Jamaica.
Greatly appreciate your honest experiences
Great topics, we'll be on the lookout in Juneau on our Alaskan Cruise.
Thanks for the breakdown and Hope you and the family are having a happy 4th.
Hi Friends! Always good hearing from you! Hope you all have a terrific Alaska cruise!
Everyone we encountered in Juneau were so nice.
Very nicely done. We really like your‘wasting no time direct to the point’ approach to this topic and cruise news. Of all the cruise news channels we have seen, we think yours is the best. We love to see a video of your channel daily if you are open to this possibility.
Martinique tops my list, followed closely by Guadalupe.
I haven’t been to Guadeloupe in over 30 years but it was VERY clear even then that we were NOT welcome there.
Completely agree with you on St Kitts!!!
Nassau is the worse! The people in the large straw market are relentless . One woman walked right up on me and my grandkids and put handmade bracelets on us, telling us they are gifts. After tying them in a very strong knot, she got into my daughter's face and demanded $15 for each 25¢ bracelet. They kept closing up and I started yelling for police . That calmed them down and we got away. Weheaded right back to the boat. Never again
Wow! Glad I did a lot of cruising in the Caribbean when young and naive; had a great time with no issues.
Hi, I have been to St Kitts, Juneau and bunch of times to Key West drove to Key West never on cruise. Walked a lot in Juneau no bad experience, chitchatted with locals, I like to chat with locals to learn about their culture etc. Other places I like to stay in port area, I just dont trust people even in US bunch of large Cities have same problem crime is out of control, I dont go to those Cities either. Always be careful and safe watch your surroundings. Keep walking don't argue with people.Happy Fourth. God Bless USA. Keep Cruising.
At last someone talking sense.
While friendly, Singapore is very strict about letting people in. This is because many ferry boats arrive at the same port facility, and people try to sneak in.
All the oil from the UAE is shipped out of Fujairah, so security is tight. You have to show ID twice when leaving the ship and twice when returning to the ship. The people are friendly.
I agree with your list, very good!
Jamaica!! We flew to Montego Bay, back in 1990 for our honeymoon-big mistake!! They moved our suitcase 1 foot and put his hand out for a tip- they he told my husband it wasn’t enough- our all inclusive was in Ocho Rios- everyone outside of the resort kept calling everyone’Cheap American’s”
Key West-we loved, felt very welcomed by locals!! Went to the Art Museum and some locals there were very friendly! Also, got a little turned around looking for a restaurant- a young man stopped, in the rain, and asked if we needed directions. Each time we go, we love it there!!
1. Jamaica 2. Belize for the same reasons. 3. Nice, FR People were just out right rude. 4 Naples, IT You know it's bad when a polite local tells you to go back to your ship for your own safety! 5. Santiago, Chili crime is bad. Watched someone rip a camera right out of the hands of someone that was on our tour.
I was on a land cruise back in the mid 90's with American Express to Italy and France. Our tour guide warned us repeatedly about getting ripped off in Italy, but no one in the tour group got ripped off. In France we had 3 instances; two on the subway and one in an elevator! A girl in our group had a fanny pack on, and the robbers were so stealth, they unzipped her pouch that was on her stomach, took everything out, including all her cash and passport and got off on the 2nd floor, which we thought was weird as the lobby was on the 1st floor. The poor girl didn't feel a thing.
We also ran into a lot of attitude in Paris, even if we attempted to speak to the locals in French to ask directions. Not friendly at all.
@@TheOriginalMarimoChan - Sorry to hear about what happened. I've been to Paris a couple of times and found the people very friendly snd helpful. Of course every city has its good and bad people.
I don’t cruise to shop. I don’t shop on the ship either. I’m want experiences. There’s so much to do on the ship that I just stay on the ship and enjoy what I paid for.
Cartagena, Columbia…..you basically are dropped in a shipyard. There are shops at a long distance away. So if you want to watch freighters load and unload…it’s the port for you.😊
Nassau was terrible they wanted to sell me some cream. They were in every corner.
For me, Venice, Italy - I sailed out of Venice in 2019 before they banned cruise ships and visited last year before I sailed out of another Italian port. There is no where to sit and rest your feet unless you are dinning in a restaurant. If you try to sit anywhere, security will tell you to get up. I made the mistake of booking an evening food tour so I had to limit how much food I ate beforehand so I can be hungry for the food tour so I was pretty much on my feet the entire day (and I have feet issues). It's overcrowded so I understand why they would have issues with day trippers and now they are charging day trippers to enter (not sure how much though). I don't think I'll go back.
I have been to both Juneau and St. Kitts and had great experiences at both .... St Kitts (2023), I had a booked excursion and only brief down time so I didn't encounter any pushiness. Juneau (2018) was my favorite Alaskan port and I had considerable down time and visited a few eateries and shops and found the people to be friendly (this was pre-pandemic so things could have changed).
From what I've heard, I am reluctant to visit Nassau Bahamas and ports in Jamaica due to the aggressiveness of the sales people, crime and scams others have encountered. I have never been to Bahamas or Jamaica and not sure if I ever want to visit (exception private cruise island in Jamaica)
Agree with the excursion and monkey vendors in St Kitts, but once you run thru them, most we very nice. Costa maya vendors have become very pushy, but Jamaica was the only time I felt uncomfortable just outside the port.
I have been to all of the ports you named and, so far haven’t had any problems.
I agree with you about Jamaica. It was one of our favorite places back in the 70s and we spent a good amount of time at various places on Jamaica. Love the coffee Jamaican blue Mountain coffee wonderful at that time. The people were wonderful. Everybody had their problems, but they didn’t seem to want to take it out on you all of a sudden somewhere back in the 80s. It began to change. The people seemed angry. They seem more hostile. They seem as though they had problems that they weren’t willing to deal with themselves, but they felt they could blame someone else for them Went back again and again and again, and then the 90s we would stay at wonderful places like the Suchi and we were loyal and then at one point physical illness caused me to gain a lot of weight and we were walking through the streets of Kingston I was humiliated fat, white fat man Terrible terrible things which I never expected to hear from the people that I never ever ever said anything negative about so count me as one will never go back to Jamaica and anyone who wants to go there you better saddle up and get ready for a very unpleasant experience unless you are extremely lucky
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We have only cruised once ever so far this past May to Alaska but we did not find any rude ports. I will say though that we weren't really impressed with Juneau. I loved Skagway and wanted to stay there forever❤
I worked on cruise ships for 10 years and will always have a soft spot for Skagway
I won't go to Jamaica or Labadee. We had a wonderful tour in St. Kitts with a lovely woman who took us everywhere and had friends all over the island I've been to many ports where the vendors are very pushy, but I'm very good at saying "no" and just walking away. I had read a lot of horror stories about Cartegena, so I was a bit worried, but I had no real problem when I went there.
I almost didn't get off the ship in Cartegena, but I was pleasantly surprised. The street vendors were aggressive, but no worse than any other Caribbean stop. Our tour guide taught us how to say "No Thanks" before letting us off the bus.
Great topic, thanks. The big question is, where does this anti cruise passenger persona place the industry? It's likely to change cruising everywhere, especially in the caribbean. This means more sea days, more fake cruise owned ports (that is a stretch), and too many more island amusument parks. Anyone other than first or second time cruisers are already up to their ears in the lack of exploration and cultural opportunities.
love channel. cant believe Key west was selected been there 5 times on a cruise never had issue or heard any remarks. Cant believe Juneau been there only once but people seemed very pleasant. Cant believe Nassau was not on your list unless I missed it.
Totally agree with all five… Would probably be my five choices also!
Definitely Freeport! My best friend & I had a bad experience there.
Thessaloniki was one of my unfriendly cruise ports. During a tour we had lunch at a hotel restaurant, they overbooked, and quite a few people had no place to seat, when people from another offered to shared their space they refused to clean the areas for people to seat. Felt it was a bit racially motivated. Most of the people that were not seated were African American, and Hispanics
I agree, key west very attitudy!!
Nassau!! I don't think I'll ever go back!
Jamaica has been the worst port we have visited.
Like you, we met real good people that worked the excursions, but the a lot of vendors were rude. We had other people chased us down demanding money. Will not be going back, and if we get rerouted there due to weather as we have before, we will stay on the ship.
We have been really fortunate, still as pointed out in this video. Getting off the main track/places will in many cases give a bad experience. Unless you are with a local or local guide.
We have only seen one such bad experience, that was in Venice when my wife wanted to walk to the cruise ship and we took a very non-touristy route. Along the south shore line, we witnessed an elderly German couple being robbed. The robber failed and ended up running off after the couple both ran in opposite directions, and The robber didn’t know whom to go after.
Thankfully no one harmed.
I agree with everything you have just said about Belize. We did an official tour..great. We wandered around the cruise port..also great. Then we stepped outside the port gates: men kept trying to get us to buy drugs or be a “guide” Very aggressive .We just turned round and went back inside the port gates!
Cartagena has the most aggressive sellers one cigar seller actually came right into our taxi cab
I couldn't agree more
Juneau is not really a tourist town as it is a Government and Business Center. If you want friendly, walk to the Alaska State Museum. Staff are friendly and courteous, and it is a cheap family outing.
Hey Jason..great show as always!…personally my wife and I did not Enjoy Cartagena Columbia..at all. Never felt safe!…people forced us off sidewalks and would never engage in any conversation. Limón Panama a close second.
Princess cay private island and definitely Martinique
I have to say Jamaica too! If it’s on a future cruise itinerary, I will stay on ship. Vendor aggressiveness was a huge turnoff.
Tough topic and well-explained. We've been to all of those ports except Key West and I agree with your assessment. They're not bad, but some are just not the friendliest to cruisers.
Ketchikan Alaska. While waiting for a red light to change in order to cross the street there was a large white pickup waiting for the same light. When the light changed I started across the road but the pickup immediately turned right which made it driving directly at me. It got to me very quickly and I started backing up, pounding on the hood, and yelling as the driver continued on pushing me with his truck. When I stumbled and fell down on the road in front of the pickup he finally stopped but I really thought he was going to just continue on and run over me. Part of the town had "ambassadors" who made sure traffic was good and people only crossed in crosswalks, etc. I reported the incident to one of them who asked about the pickup and the driver and said she "thought" she might know who it was as both the vehicle and the driver matched the description of a local who was often outspoken in regard to his dislike of cruise passengers. This was by far the most unfriendly thing that I have experienced at a cruise port.
Sorry that you encountered this individual. We are going to Ketchikan in a few weeks. I plan to keep my eye out for pickup trucks.
So sorry to hear that. Ketchikan is one of my favorite Alaska ports. That jerk shouldn't spoil it for everyone.
I found Jamaica very intimidating. Our cruise was forced to stay there for two days due to a tropical storm that canceled our Grand Cayman port. We were unprepared for excursions so we stayed at the port. The people were pushy and rude, and drug dealers were everywhere trying to sell their product, while cops were on the other corner watching and waiting to arrest any buyers. Awful place! Never got off the ship on two subsequent cruises to Jamaica.
We stay on the ship in ports. If everyone stayed on and didn't spend money, they're attitudes would probably change.
Ocho Rio Jamaica , we were on the Carnival Horizon . People were too pushy in the shops. We are going to be taking a second chance at Jamaica next year going to Falmouth on Oasis of the Seas
Costa Maya had very aggressive vendors and shop owners. When we did not enter their shops, they followed us to the next shop.
Belize, Montego Bay, Merida
Columbia Columbia Columbia!!! They have the most aggressive street vendors I've ever seen. You can't escape them because they are everywhere. I actually like Jamaica's cruise port. They just need more stuff to do there besides dolphin cove and dunns falls.
I completely agree. They walk next to you, chase you down continuously trying you sell you anything. They do not take a NO for an answer. What saved my husband and I ie the fact that I'm a Spanish speaker and in a very stern voice and face I asked them to stop. Also, I let them know how annoying and disrespectful they were. It's so sad because Cartagena is a beautiful city. It reminds me a lot of where I was born and grew up, Puerto Rico.
Cabo, St. Kitts, Cozumel and Jamaica for me.
Barbados, there was so rude everybody we were looking for a place where we can make complaints because that’s how rude they were
Belize is definitely the scariest port I’ve ever been to. You absolutely must not go out of the cruise port area for your own safety. Jamaica has been very dangerous through the years, so we stopped getting off there. Any port in Mexico is a NO for us now. Hard No for Aruba. Nassau is such a busy tourist trap, so I really don’t desire to venture off the ship there anymore.
We have been to Jamaica several times and they have the most aggressive vendors in the Caribbean.
They do but I’m rather stubborn and have no problem saying NO
i was at st kitts last year i enjoyed it but i can agree with you they are pushy in the sales dept.
Jamaica, Freeport (a shop keeper grabbed our son from right behind us and dragged him into her market stall. He was panicked and didn’t know what to do. He was 12.) And we don’t love Nassau either but if you stay away from the straw market it’s okay.
I agree with your Belize assessment guys literally began chasing me and my friends until we safely made it back to the cruise terminal. ST. MAARTEEN also should be on that list, they are pushy and made us very uncomfortable when kept following us to buy jewelry.
We went to St. Maarteen last summer and the sales people would not leave us alone while we were just trying to relax on the beach..I get it’s their job and they’re trying to make money but harassment isn’t the way to go about it.
Jamaica, it is such a beautiful island but I either don't book ships that go there, or I don't get off the ship if it does. Pushy, and when I visited many (ok many) years ago you had to stop at a customs counter and some lady came with a wad of cash to buy jewelry and the customs team stole it. Of course, raising a ruckus is pointless cause it changes hands 10 x before anyone starts to investigate. So beautiful place, I see from the ship!
I’m going to have to agree with you on Belize City. We had a mixed reception as we took our tram tour. Some people were friendly and waved, others shouted not so nice things at us. One of the ferry workers was super nice when working for tips on the ferry, I l saw him later and asked him a question looking for the right tender and I was given the most tart, rude response. I thought he was nice. I was shocked. The port area was super crowded too just adding to the misery. They are supposedly working on a new port area location. Right now, it’s a one and done for me.
Labadee
Jamaica, Nassau, & Belize all gave me a scary vibe.
I agree with you totally, however my experience in St Maarten was so horrid- was on a bus going from the port to the French side then in the middle of nowhere, driver kicked me off and said you are on the wrong bus!
Was pretty scary as was alone, having said that, it was several years ago so I hope it has changed
Bar Harbor would have made my list. Loved St. Kitts but had a cruise ship shore excursion so didn’t have any interaction with other tour operators.
Ensenada Mexico primarily at La Bufadora. They are very aggressive and you have to go through the gauntlet to get to the main event. I’ve also had to stand off with a vendor in the downtown area that was hitting my pocket.
St Kitts is a favorite of ours.
Lots of comments! Universal bummer is Jamacia. Beautiful place and some really fantastic people. Advice is to say on a resort and not venture into the country. Very dangerous and lots of drugs. everything is "no problem" as long as you buy something. Thanks for the heads up. This will definitely affect future plans. We are headed to Alaska next. Hope Juneau will be ok.
Jamaica, most definitely. We were at a resort in Montego Bay rather than a cruise. As we sat in our lounge chairs on the beach there were men with assault rifles behind us, apparently protecting us from the locals. We were urged to buy "ganga" or nutmeg. Not going back.
Belize and Ensanada were very agressive, with Nassau, Bahamas a close 3rd. Been on over 100 cruises, but we're not going back to those ports anytime soon...belize me!😅
Nassau Bahamas
I’ve been to Jamaica twice. Had a shore excursion in each. Very nice friendly locals and vendors out of Montego Bay at YS Falls. But the other excursion in Ocho Rios to Dunn’s River Falls had a few very aggressive and rude vendors yelling and calling us fake as we walked by. It only takes one or two bad vendors to make an unpleasant experience.
Cozumel was absolutely horrible this year...very aggressive and crowded...we left immediately and went back to ship ..our 7th visit and was never this bad ..
Juneau, Cozumel, some of the very small towns in Italy were very rude and dismissive. Rome was a challenge due to pickpockets. Never had a problem in England, Ireland, or Germany.
For me, Nassau, Belize and Jamaica were the scariest and ghetto type stops
I don’t think the people in the Nassau were that genuinely friendly.
Hi George! I gave Nassau some consideration as well. Have a great day my Friend!
Agreed! Miserable
Agreed, where else can you get the hard sell, attempted pickpocketing, and propositioned all in the same port?
I would say Belize . I haven’t been to Jamaica yet . I have heard it is very aggressive.
I’d like to see you do a video on island port areas with the most aggressive vendors. I detest that and want to stay clear of it.
I've only been on 7 cruises so I haven't seen a lot of ports but, so far my least favorite is Cozumel, that's where the vendors were the most aggressive, I DO NOT go into shops where the vendors are trying to convince me to go in. I go into shops that DON'T push me to come in.
Personally for me, a cruise is more about the journey then the destination, I might get off the ship if I'm somewhere I've never been, but if I've been there before and experienced pushy vendors, I'll just stay on the ship and enjoy the added space when most get off.
BELIZE MAY HAVE A REASON TO BE A COUNTRIES GOVERNMENTAL, POLITICAL UNREST AND FINANCIAL STRUCTURE MORE THAN LIKELY PLAYS A HUGE POINT I'M SURE...
We went to St. Croix in 2009, when Disney Cruise added them to their ports. They were very friendly at the dock area, but the sail excursion, which was run by Americans from the mainland, was sketchy. It wasn't run very well, and they asked everyone to be sure to give them the highest rating when asked by the cruise line. I don't think that Disney Cruise Line returned to St. Croix after that year. I had heard that crime there was a factor prior to 2009, so maybe it didn't get better after all? Not sure. No issues at other cruise ports. Juneau was our favorite port in 2011, but we did not eat in any restaurants there. We are returning there later this month. We'll see how it goes.
hmmm prob i say belize as well can be scary for some
Ocho, Rios Jamaica
Hi, I have not experienced a unfriendly cruiseport yet. Ofcourse there are less friendly people everywhere but not enough to say the whole cruiseport is unfriendly. For example I had a very nice experience in Juneau 2x on the same cruise. In december I will to Mexico and Belize and I hope it wille be safe, that is the most important.
St kitts was far by intimating either military police presence but in port area nice and friendly and gorgeous; Nassau is another place I would not go alone , Martinique was great no issues