Portland, Maine Port Reviews

Love this place. Beautiful, friendly, plenty to see. Very walkable but we did do the old fire engine city tour. It was $20 each. They only take 12 - 13 people at a time so there is plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Local coffee shop/gift shop directed us to a gluten free bakery where we got chocolate eclairs. Very good!

Visited: Jun 01, 2017

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Portland was the sleeper for me. I mean, I knew it had a bit of a following, and a cult like love for the city and I get it now, I really do. I loved Portland. Pretty much everything about it was right up my alley. As a Chef, it's an exceptional food town, even voted the Number 1 Food Town in the whole of the U.S. by Bon Appétite, so that's gotta count for something. I loved it's lively hustle and bustle, the Old Port part of town is where we milled about mostly. The working wharf area was awesome, very active but still relaxed. Got some great clam rolls at Rosie's on Fore Street. We then decided to play tourist and got a trolley tour that went from Portland out to Portland Head Light, with numerous sights along the way. Our driver was super knowledgeable, informative, friendly, and most of all, FUN! He really made the little trip something special. We loved it

Visited: Sep 29, 2018

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Easy shopping, walking , town.. everything was close.

Visited: Jun 01, 2018

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Found a doughnut shop making donuts out of mashed potatoes! There were twenty people waiting in line to enter the store. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s great to wander about a town and see what you can find.

Visited: Oct 19, 2017

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Beautiful little town and after our excursion we walked around the port did some shopping and had an excellent lobster meal

Visited: Aug 23, 2018

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Took the "Portland by land and sea" excursion, wonderful!! The schooner was beautiful and fast blazing along the coastlines. The bus ride to a lighthouse was nice with a REAL lobster roll and a whoopie pie from the lobster cart at the top of the hill as we looked out over everything, lands and sea.

Walked around town, very nice city and shopping was great.

Visited: Sep 27, 2019

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We enjoyed our trip to the lighthouses, could have spent more time at them.

Visited: Aug 30, 2018

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portland was amazing. it’s such a cute little town by the water. i love the hills. the stores are adorable and the food is fantastic. i got a bunch of cute little souvenirs here and i would love to go back.

Used lyft to cab to the oldest lighthouse ($10-15 from cruise terminal) and park. Highly recommend the cliff walk from the ruins to the lighthouse! We then cabbed again to the bug lighthouse and back to terminal. We then walked around old portland which is beautiful!