Cairns Shore Excursion: Explore City Sights & Surrounds For An Intimate Look at Local Culture
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16 Ratings
Cairns
Embark on a small-group shore excursion in Cairns and uncover the city's captivating attractions, including museums, cathedrals, botanical gardens, and stunning beaches. Relish in personalized experiences with limited group sizes.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Cairns Discovery Tours - When your cruise ship docks in Cairns, jump on board this small-group tour of Cairns
- Cairns Museum - Guided tour of the Cairns Museum
- St Monica’s Cathedral - View the world’s largest themed stained glass windows
- Cairns Botanical Gardens - Guided Tour of the Cairns Botanical Gardens
- Barron Gorge National Park - Visit Surprise Creek Falls
- NOA Eat Drink Share - Delicious Devonshire Afternoon Tea
- Palm Cove Beach - Enjoy a stroll along the jetty or beach
What's Included
- Expert local guide
- Convenient port pickup and drop-off for city tours
- Enjoyable afternoon tea
- Comfortable transport in an air-conditioned 20-seat Toyota Coaster
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Yorkeys Knob Boat Club entrance additional cost of $20.00 per person payable on board.
Additional Information
Spend your time in port seeing the sights of Cairns’ city, waterfront and beaches on a small-group afternoon tour. You will visit attractions such as the Cairns Museum School of Arts, The world largest stained themed windows at St Monica’s Cathedral, Enjoy a delightful afternoon tea at a local cafe before visiting the Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo opportunity with a stop at Cairns Lookout, where you have an overview of Cairns and the Coal sea and see Surprise Creek falls located at the Lower Barron Gorge National Park. Before returning to your ship walk along the jetty or stroll along the palm fringed beach at stunning Palm Cove, one of Cairns beautiful northern beaches. Enjoy a personalized experience on this small-group shore excursion, limited to 20 passengers.
- Wheelie walkers not permitted
- No cancellation fees applicable if the cruise ship does not arrive in Port due to weather and tidal conditions
- Infants and Children under 4 not accommodated
- Tour times are 12:50PM - 6:00PM
Location
Cairns Discovery Tours
36 Aplin St
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(16 Ratings)
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U7364ptstevent
Feb 20, 2024
A delightful day in Cairns - Had a delightful tour of Cairns which included a local museum of the cities history. A church which commissioned a couple of local artist to create windows which were uniquely painted and treated of creation to current times. Stopped for a scone and tea and finished with the Botanical Garden. Our guide Chris was knowledgeable and easy to spend time with. Would highly recommend this tour.
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Doug_r
Jan 30, 2024
Cairns in half a day - We got a great tour of Cairns from history to sights to life issues. We learned about the ravages of the cyclone in December. Even though it was rainy, it was an enjoyable day
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Q397metodds
Jan 20, 2024
Terrific Cairns tour - Chris was a terrific guide. Very knowledgeable and went above and beyond to make sure everyone on the tour had a memorable experience. Chris individually dropped all guests off at their chosen destination which was awesome. A great tour and a must for travellers wanting a Cairns experience.
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Glenn_d
Oct 31, 2023
A great trip and tour guide - CHRIS did a great job We wished we had more time Make it a full day. drop the cruise ship people first at the end of the trip. We ran pretty close to all aboard
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Michael_b
Feb 27, 2023
Terrific and Diversified - Our3rd cruise to Cairns. We truly got to know Carins from a different perspective. Great for people that have done the Great Barrier Reef several times.
Phyllis and Michael
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Stephanie_b
Nov 30, 2022
Great Experience - This half day tour was perfect to get get a quick view of Cairns if you have limited time. Eric our Tour Guide was very informative and prepared. Enjoyed the stop for tea and scones.
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Ricardo_s
Jun 11, 2021
Great day out a gr8 way in seeing Cairnes. - Matt was a very enthusiastic informative man just loved his commentary and the places he took us to
Would recommend this tour to anyone . Thanks Matt for a.great day out
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Melinamerz
Feb 13, 2020
Great city - We enjoyed the tour. Matt was our guide, he really knows a lot about cairns and gave us interesting information.
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Snige
Jan 22, 2020
Really interesting tour.. fantastic guide - This tour was really interesting and took in lots of places in and around Cairns.
Matt, our guide, was very friendly and knowledgeable.
Highly recommended
Thanks
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Marybi3559qg
Aug 9, 2020
Cairns City Sights & Surrounds - We did the Cairns City Sights & Surrounds tour yesterday. Our tour guide was Eric & he was very informative & very interesting . Didn’t rush us through & was very patient when we took our pics. He has a very easy manner about him. The only disappointment was not being able to go inside St Monica’s Cathedral because of Covid-19. Very pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Thank you
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