Shore Excursion: 4-Hour Tallinn Guided Sightseeing Tour

We were on a cruise. This port is small. We easily found our guide OUTSIDE the port gate (5 minute walk). Took air conditioned van to quaint part of town seeing Catherine's palace (much smaller than in St Petersburg, of course), ruins of old church and waterfront. Then walking tour of upper town with large manors and cathedrals with photo stops then a steep walk down with some steps through the dividing wall into the lower town where the merchants lived an worked. Upon completion of tour in lower town, time to eat/shop and 15-20 minute self walk back to ship. Our guide was very friendly.

We enjoyed the beautiful town of Tallin. Even though it was crowded with tourists from several ships, we had an interesting tour, and enjoyed staying in town for lunch and shopping before walking back to the ship.

This was a wonderful experience! Our guide was so amazing! Old Town was so beautiful. Such beautiful sights to see!

The bus tour portion lasted only 1 hour and 10 minutes, not 2 hours as described on the Viator's website. The bus tour did not drive around the old town, see the towers of wall, the Stout Margaret or the Tall Herman. Instead, the bus dropped us off by the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, and spent 40 minutes waiting for everyone take turns going to the bathroom. The guide was very lethargic. While walking the old town, people started to leave the tour early since the guide's talk was so uninterested. In the end, those remaining few people told her to cut the guided tour short. Asked her just tell us how to walk back to the Cruise Line shuttle bus pickup point. Her direction was not very clear. We had to figure it out ourselves. It was not far from where we ended the tour, but she was not even willing to just take us there! Overall a great disappointment !

Great tour, our tour guide Dimitri was excellent would highly recommend this tour.

The tour was very interesting and the tour guide was very pleasant. We saw some interesting sites. The only thing I would suggest is the the tour guide be a little more assertive as we spent almost 1 hour waiting for people on the tour to get out of a gift shop.

Too much time wasted by the guide on this excursion. The trip left half an hour late to start as there were four cruise ships in port that day. We were waiting for people to show up. When it finally got going there was still too much wasted time as the tour leader as he didn't know how to organize a tour group and lead it to the items on the agenda. When we finally arrived at the old town.,more time was wasted outside a souveneer shop when I finally had enough. I said to him that I had paid for a tour of the best of Tallinn and I had not seen very much. There were people in the group who's ship were leaving early in the afternoon who needed to be back on board and were very angry. The tour guide finally got his act together and picked up the pace and we saw a bit more. Unfortunately some people had to leave the tour and get back to their ship. He promised to extend the trip to make up for the lost time. Did I get my moneys worth on the trip. NO. Skip this tour and go to the old town and wander around. You can pick up a guided tour of the old town for less money and it will be much better than what we got.