Cherbourg: all 12 tours and excursions for your cruise

Explore Cherborg at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival in the port. Actual vehicle...

Explore Cherbourg at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival in the port. Actual vehicle...

Discover the charms that await you at the tip of the Contenin peninsula in Cap de la Hague. Drive along this picturesque coastline to arrive and stroll in ruggedly beautiful Port Racine (France's smallest port) and gaze in awe at the giant cliffs of Jobourg. Enjoy the regional specialty, le crepe, with a hot drink before making the scenic drive to the pier through more lovely villages. Port Racine Departing the pier drive 30 minutes to Port Racine, named after one of...

Get acquainted with making bread the traditional way at the lovely Marie Ravenel watermill in Réthoville. This gorgeous stone structure was built in the 18th century and operated as the Coudrairie watermill for over a century. Its current owners brought the place back to life recently and renamed it for Marie Ravenel, the miller and poetess who lived here for 31 years. On today's excursion learn all about the history of this ancient watermill, the process of milling grains, and get a hands-on...

Walk in the footsteps of history when you travel to Bayeux, the first town to be liberated by the Allies at the end of World War II. It survived intact and boasts an impressive array of architecture dating from antiquity to the Renaissance to the modern day. See the famous Bayeux Tapestry as well as the Bayeux Cathedral, which dates from 1077 and was built in both Roman and Gothic styles. Bayeux Tapestry Depart the pier for the approximately 1.5-hour drive to Bayeux. Upon...

Walk from the pier to Cherbourg's city center. Cherbourg was known to the Romans as Coriovallum, but the valley in which Cherbourg lies had earlier been settled by the Megalithic peoples of northern France. The present shape of the town is almost wholly due to more recent developments. Situated within the arc of a broad and shallow bay, Cherbourg was dangerously exposed to northwesterly gales, and was never seriously considered a viable port before Vauban began to proselytize on its behalf. Learn...

Leave Cherbourg and drive to Sainte-Mère-Eglise, located in the middle of the traditional Normandy livestock breeding area.This town brutally entered the news headlines in 1944 when the US 82nd Airborne Division troops landed here and liberated Sainte-Mère-Eglise on June 6th. Enjoy a guided visit to the village. Just in front of the Town Hall, you will see Milestone Zero symbolizing the start of the Road to Freedom. Inside the church, a modern stained-glass window features the American...

The name Val de Saire evokes wonderful scenic images not only of the delightful Saire Valley, but of the whole northeast of the peninsula. From Cherbourg you will drive to Barfleur and straight back to the Middle Ages. This picturesque fishing port and yachting harbor was once the busiest place in Cotentin, and in more recent centuries has been a favorite vacation spot for English aristocrats and monarchs. A guided visit here allows you to see its many charms for yourself.You'll follow a scenic route...

Departure from Cherbourg and drive to Barfleur. Back to the Middle Ages, this picturesque fishing port and yachting harbour was the busiest place in Cotentin, while in late centuries it was often visited by English aristocrats and monarchs. Stop in this charming fishing port. Following a scenic drive, reach the village of Saint Vaast la Hougue. Located on the coast of the Val de Saire, St Vaast is a pleasant harbour. Not only famous for its oysters but also...

Dive into the challenging yet important history of World War II at the Normandy Victory Museum, which tells the story of D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history that took place June 6, 1944. Then take a panoramic drive to place yourself in the most important strategic sites of this historic day. Normandy Victory Museum Drive 90 minutes from the pier to the Normandy Victory Museum, located in Catz on an old American (runway A10). This museum is one of the most...

Explore Cherbourg at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival...

Explore Cherbourg at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This Silver Shore Privato tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival...