Our visit to Monaco meant Azura anchoring at Ville Franche and the passengers being tendered in to the port. The tender could be a locally hired craft or one of cruise ships craft. In either case each craft can carry 100 – 150 people.
To smoothly get anything upto 3000 pax’s off and back on ship before it departs to its next port of call. There were two boarding points, our transit was quite smooth with the only delay waiting for the tender to load.
A five minute move across the water brought us to the port authorities. I’ve already written about our trip here; https://localitystories.com/2023/09/11/1101-out-of-sequence-monte-carlo-monaco-monte-carlo-or-bust/
Processing back through the port involved a bit of queue probably fifteen minutes or so, a short walk to the tender.
I remember being slightly frustrated at Elayne’s choice of seating location. I can’t remember why I was frustrated though. Perhaps I was because I was feeling a bit hot and bothered.
Either way, it had been an interesting and lovely day. As usual, we were pleased to get back on board.
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