Cherbourg France
France

143 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Costa Cruises (3 Cruises)

Cunard (19 Cruises)

Holland America Line (8 Cruises)

MSC Cruises (64 Cruises)

MSC Preziosa.

MSC Preziosa

4345 Passengers
139072 tons
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10 November 8 days Round-trip from Rotterdam, Netherlands
From 1046$
12 November 8 days Round-trip from Hamburg, Germany
From 1034$
14 November 8 days Round-trip from Southampton, United Kingdom
From 941$
15 November 8 days Round-trip from Le Havre-Paris, France
From 1051$

Princess Cruises (9 Cruises)

Regent Seven Seas Cruises (4 Cruises)

Royal Caribbean Cruises (2 Cruises)

Seabourn Cruise Line (34 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At the Quai de France or the Quai de Normandie, in the heart of the old transatlantic maritime station. Allow nearly an hour of sailing to cross the roadstead — the largest artificial harbour in Europe — before docking.
Yes. About fifteen minutes on flat ground separate the terminal from the centre, and a free shuttle runs on call days. It is one of the easiest French calls to do without a booked excursion.
Two options that barely combine. Either La Cité de la Mer, which begins where the gangway ends and needs two to three hours, or the town centre plus Fort du Roule. Trying to do both spoils both.
This is where the Titanic took on her last continental passengers, on 10 April 1912. The Titanic gallery at La Cité de la Mer retraces that Cherbourg call and the fate of the emigrants who boarded here.
You go down inside Le Redoutable, France's first nuclear ballistic missile submarine and the largest submersible in the world open to visitors: control room, bunks, engine room. Add an abyssal aquarium more than ten metres deep and the Titanic gallery. Two to three hours for the whole thing.
Yes, the workshop still assembles by hand the umbrella made famous by Jacques Demy's film with Catherine Deneuve, guaranteed against Cotentin gusts. It is the most characteristic souvenir of the call.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, around the place du Général-de-Gaulle. Stalls overflow with Norman produce: raw-milk cheeses, cider, caramels and fish landed overnight.
The Liberation Museum, on a 117-metre promontory. It tells how the port, taken by the Americans three weeks after D-Day, became the logistical lung of the Battle of Normandy. You reach it by bus or on foot if you are game; the whole roadstead spreads out below.
Very much so. The submarine, the deep-sea aquarium and the market hold children's attention easily. The route between terminal and centre is flat, which simplifies the day with young ones or strollers.
The euro, cards accepted everywhere including La Cité de la Mer and town-centre shops. French is spoken; the visitor sites offer audio guides and printed material in English.