Santa Barbara, California Port Reviews

Princess substituted this port for Monterey. The S.B. people in the shops, etc were happy to have us and made everyone feel welcome. Just walked around town.

So thrilling, do not remember.

Our stay was FAR too brief but our wine and chocolate tour was awesome!

Good, but only spent a few hours here (literally). Look to see how long you are in each port. This one was tender, so it cut drastically into our minimal time.

We weren't allowed to disembark on this port because it was a tender port and was windy. Having said that Princess did an excellent job of quickly removing the tour charge and also refunded the port fee automatically, no effort required on our part at all!

Although our time here was cut short, it was beautiful. Thank you Rich for telling us about the Courthouse. Also ran into a cool resale shop called The Renaissance, you have to shop there ladies!!!

Our favorite stop on the itinerary.

Gorgeous, but not much to do. Try renting bikes or look up a free walking tour. The Mission is not worth seeing. Ocean water is too cold for swimming. Tendering can take awhile, so wait a couple hours before lining up.

It took over 5 hours for people to get off the ship. Why just two tenders???

First time stopping her by cruise ship and loved every minute! The staff needs some refresher training in how the tendering process works. There seemed to be a lot of confusion on just getting people on and off the ship and the announcements were limited and not very helpful. Other than that, great port, beautiful city, and they seem to be very interested in expanding the cruise ship business as we saw several surveys taking place.