SHORE EXCURSIONS
The best days ashore.
The 11 most popular mumbai tours for cruise passengers. The trips worth your hours ashore, what each one runs, who operates it and how to be back before all-aboard.
Small-group South Mumbai shore tour with AC pickup, key sights, vegetarian lunch, and UNESCO Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus—about 5 hours.
Most Popular“Excellent guide and driver, knowledgeable, funny and helpful Nothing was too much trouble Highly recommend”
Cruise-day Mumbai highlights with port pickup, A/C coach, Gandhi Museum, Dhobi Ghat, colonial stops, and thali lunch. Up to 25.
“Very organized and knowledgeable tour guide. Comfortable coach transportation with enough time for a photo op at the sights we visited. The lunch was excellent and delicious. The downside was the choice of store we visited for shopping. The store was more expensive than the average.”
3-day Taj Mahal tour from cruise ports in Mumbai, Cochin and Goa with 5-star stays, flights, a guide, and sunrise timing.
“This was a fulfillment of one of the items on my bucket list!!!! Our guide, Mr. Shyam, was great! He was extremely knowledgeable and thorough! Going to the Taj Mahal with Mr. Shyam made it an experience and an educational opportunity! We went from the Cruise port in Read more”
A 7-hour Mumbai shore excursion with a small-group private guide, market stops, Dhobi Ghat views, dabbawalla visit, and a local train ride.
“The driver was an hour late. They thought my booking was for a day later. It only took four hours. No tuk tuk ride and no lunch I got to'see' everything else but didn't go inside I think your description for the trip is wrong abd definitely not worth the money. However my guide was…”
A 7-hour private Mumbai shore excursion with a local guide, air-conditioned car, and major-photo stops at Gateway of India and CST.
“Enjoyed two tours with this company on our recent cruise. Well organised and very good pricing compared to comparable tours with the cruise company. Especially the Kerala houseboat tour. Long drives necessary to see some places but that was unavoidable. Recommended!”
Mumbai shore excursion with port pickup and AC comfort, plus a boat ride and classics like Gateway of India and Mani Bhavan.
“Our expectations for the private tour were high, but unfortunately, we were left disappointed. We had to request a 50% refund of the fees, which was thankfully granted by the team.”
4-hour Mumbai shore tour with an English guide: Gateway of India, Gandhi museum, Dhobi Ghat, CSMT, and Malabar Hill views.
“I booked a one-day tour before arriving in India. Communication and payment were very easy. As agreed I was picked up by Mukesh, the driver, at my Hotel, perfect in time and he brought me to a place where we met the guide - a very young sRead more”
Mumbai shore excursion with pier-side pickup, an air-conditioned minivan, and a guided day focused on local sights and free admission.
“Mumbai as a Local. Had a really interesting and informative trip around a sticky Mumbai. Mr Vinodh took us where all the clothes washing takes place - viewing platform makes this quite a spectacle if you think this doesn't sound interesting. ThRead more”
Cruise-only small-group Mumbai tour: Gateway, Taj Mahal Palace, Crawford Market, Dhobi Ghat, UNESCO Chhatrapati Terminus, Marine Drive, and back.
“The guide was excellent. We saw, among other things, her own home as part of a tour where we had a lot of influence on what we wanted to see (it was just my wife and I on the tour)”
A 4-hour Mumbai shore food tour with a certified chef, port pickup, landmark drives, Crawford Market shopping, and Parsi cuisine tastings.
“This was a fantastic tour with Dinesh. Not just for food, Dinesh and his driver took us all over the city stopping at all the main sites and even some we didn't know about! The foodie stops were all really good with delicious local food. Dinesh Read more”
A 7-hour Mumbai shore outing with a guide, Crawford Market finds, Dhobhi Ghat views, Victoria Terminus, and a local train ride.
“This tour by Muziris Heritage Day Tours was a pleasant surprise and Mumbai was much more pleasant than we expected. The tour bus picked up fourteen of us outside the passenger terminal where the ship berthed. We did not experience norRead more”
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