The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Newport, the bucket-list move is The Breakers: Exclusive Private Guided Mansion Tour. The Breakers runs it. Below: 3 bucket-list things to do on a Newport port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Step inside the grandest of Newport's Gilded Age palaces — the Vanderbilt family's 70-room Italian Renaissance palazzo — on an exclusive private guided experience. This is bucket-list Newport at its most opulent.
Book itNewport Gilded Age Trolley Tour w/ Breakers Ticket (Age 8+)$54 per person
Hike the legendary 3.5-mile Cliff Walk — a National Recreation Trail hugging dramatic Atlantic cliffs with the Gilded Age mansions rising on one side and crashing surf on the other. One of New England's most spectacular coastal walks.
Book itNewport: Cliff Walk Guided Tour$55 per person
Sail Newport's fabled racing waters aboard a classic yacht as the sun dips over Narragansett Bay — the cradle of America's Cup sailing. This is the most romantic, authentically Newport experience afloat.
Book itNewport: Day Sail on Narragansett Bay aboard Aquidneck$55 per person
Run by On Watch Sailing Private Charters Newport · 5.00 from 143 reviews
Roll down the legendary Bellevue Avenue in a classic open-air trolley, then step inside both The Breakers AND Marble House — the two crown jewels of Newport's Gilded Age — with a knowledgeable guide narrating every opulent detail.
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Taste your way through Newport's most storied foodie streets — craft chowder, lobster rolls, artisan cheeses, and local craft beer — on a curated walking food tour through the historic wharf district. The most delicious way to know a port.
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Explore the oldest surviving synagogue in America and the remarkably preserved colonial streetscapes of Newport with an expert local historian — a profound, moving, and intellectually thrilling experience unlike anything else in New England.
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Your day in NewportNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
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Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
