We were on a budget so we had to limit our ship excursions. From all we read about Genoa it seemed easy to tour on our own. Everyone talked about the aquarium…which I am sure is wonderful…but we live in “the ocean state” and have visited many large, amazing aquariums…so we choose not to go there.
This is what we did…
After getting off the ship, there is really no guidance. We walked towards the large building facing us which we found out was the cruise terminal. We were looking to get a map but it was almost empty…in a spooky sort of way. It is not obvious how to walk into the city.
We headed towards an escalator that went up…and was working. We found a small shop and a large rotunda. Straight ahead were two big doors and through them we saw a large fountain. Next to the fountain on a bridge was one of those topless tour buses that were at every port.
We decided to hop on and take a tour of the city. It was 10 Euro for each adult and 5 Euro for our son (which he ended up not charging us for). We had comfortable seats and headsets to hear the tour in our language. It was perfect and very informative. We saw a lot of the city.
After the tour there was a street called Via September that we wanted visit so we grabbed a taxi and headed back there. We walked around and bought some gifts to bring home. We also visited the Oriental Mercat open market. We had a great lunch outside at a place called Tim’s Café on one of the side streets up near the Plaza Ferrari.
We took a taxi back to the aquarium to see the pirate ship and walked through their shops. We walked back towards the ship, up some industrial looking stairs and ended up right on the bridge where we originally took the bus tour. We went back through the cruise terminal and bought some stamps at the small store. There was a mail slot so we sent off our post cards right there. We headed back to the ship…it was another great day!
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