Our second port day was Brest, France. I’m not sure what the big day trips are from here but I remember that I didn’t see anything that would be for the kids. Early on I’d heard that Oceanopolis was nice for kids. Another aquarium but my kids love aquariums so that was fine. I would say that if we ever stop here in the future I wouldn’t bother getting off.
The ship offered a shuttle bus that you could pay for that dropped off near the city center (1o euros adult, 9 euros child) and the cruise port offered similar for free. Neither really told you before hand where they dropped off. They do say you’re not allowed to walk in the port which was a bit annoying. We couldn’t get a taxi where the port shuttle dropped us so we ended up walking about 2 1/2 miles to Oceanopolis (we took a taxi back). My kids were huge troopers and the walk wasn’t that bad but it did take us right back past the cruise ship (we had to back track about a mile). There were also no taxis at the port which is was a bummer also. Supposedly there is a shuttle from the cruise port to Oceanopolis but after being cut about 10 times by pushy people I gave up on trying to figure it out.
Oceanopolis itself was cute. It wasn’t that expensive either at 36 euros for the three of us. They had all the normal stuff including penguins, nice play area, and a couple good gift shops and snack places. It wasn’t as nice as the aquarium in Genoa but we enjoyed it even after our hour long walk to get there. We asked the people at the ticket center to call us a taxi back and it came pretty quickly back to the ship.
The taxi had no trouble getting us back into the port. It was about 20 euros. We decided to grab a crepe while we waited to board. The queue wasn’t too bad.
Once back on the ship kids went off into the kids clubs which they love. My daughter definitely prefers it more. Part way through my son didn’t want to go for dinner and would only go if one specific kid he met was in there. But he still went there for at least a bit every day. My daughter was the kid that from the time we were on the boat in the afternoons she wanted to be at the kids club until they closed around 11pm. Did I mention how amazing the kids clubs are? They do face paint all the time and all the staff are just AMAZING!
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