Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Port Reviews

Waste of time, not much to see, a three hour bus tour in old school buses of the island turned out to be a quick 20 minute tour coming and going without stopping and being dropped off for 2 hours to shop which was an hour too long. Felt we were dropped off to help the local stores liquidate end of season inventory.

Visited: Oct 21, 2007

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BORING

Visited: Oct 12, 2008

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Lovely island

Visited: Aug 14, 2019

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Explored all of the Island easily in a day! Edgarstown the most preserved, but Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs both are outstanding. Don't miss the Victorian Methodist Camp Village.

We loved Oaks Bluff. It was a cozy town with an old flare in design. We ate at the Lookout Tavern which is over by the water and long wooden dock. Great photos of the ship from there. We had the Lobster Rolls for lunch there. You can get them hot with butter or cold with Mayo. I had the hot and it was the best lobster I ever had. They were $32.00 each but worth every single cent of it. Great experience. We had to tender in and that was a very bad experience on the way back to the ship. The winds picked up really bad. In fact, by 1:00pm the Captain announced that they would not be allowing any more passengers to go ashore. We had went on the tender about 10:30 and it was ok then. The winds picked up after lunch, signs were blowing down the street, so we went back to the tender to go back to the ship. It was a very rough ride and took 7 times for the tender to be able to hook up to the ship for us to get off. Getting onto the ship was very difficult as the seas were so rough, even being tied up the tender was banging against the ship and we had to jump from the tender to the tender platform when the crew told us to jump. They grabbed us on the tender and also the crew was on the platform to catch us. It truly turned me from going on a tender port again. The crew did a fantastic job securing everyone onboard safely.

Not everything open. Walked around.

The businesses on this island didn’t seem receptive to tourists and most were closed. Restrooms were very limited. I wouldn’t recommend this port Our tour was ok, but once again restaurants and restrooms were limited. The tour guide was a long time tour business owner and he said if he still owned the business he would taken photos and complained to city hall about all of the issues: closed restaurants, disgusting full portable toilets and closed public restrooms. He had to take us off the tour to a fishing village to use functional restrooms and food.

Didn't go ashore. Rough seas.

Martha's Vineyard was a fun stop, but the tender process was terrible. Our driver hit the Sky on our way out. Then he rammed the other tender on the way back to the ship causing damage to the doorway.

Full Island Tour excursion used up the entire time at port. We saw all of the island,went to the Gay Head Cliffs and learned a lot, but didn't get to enjoy town.