Originally Posted by
DoggyDaddy
Also, be aware that when tendering to a port (at least with NCL), only passengers who have ship booked excursions can leave first. This can result in a significant wait for the others. We also ran into this when we docked in Quebec City, and almost missed our privately booked excursion.
DD
Suite guests too- I stayed in the penthouse last cruise and we were escorted to the tender whenever we liked.
It does add value to use a ships tour on a short stay tender port, but that's the rare case. Personally I'd always rather do a private tour- many times you end up with the ship group anyway as they use the same service provider!