Charlestown (Nevis) Cruise Port

Port summary

Nevis has no cruise berth and never has. Ships anchor off Charlestown and tender into the pier at the Nevis Air and Sea Ports Authority terminal, which sits in the middle of the town rather than outside it, so you step ashore next to the market and the museum instead of at an industrial gate. This is one of the easiest ports in the eastern Caribbean to do independently, because the tourism authority publishes a fixed taxi rate sheet and the drivers stick to it: fares are quoted per vehicle for up to four people, not per person, which makes a couple or a family better off than on almost any neighbouring island. Charlestown itself is compact Georgian stone and timber and takes about an hour on foot, taking in the Museum of Nevis History in the house where Alexander Hamilton was born, the George M. Hanley market, Fort Charles on the point and the hot springs at Bath. Pinney's Beach starts about twenty minutes north along the shore. Everything else - the Botanical Gardens, the plantation inns of Gingerland, Nevis Peak, the north-coast beaches - is a short taxi ride at a published price. Ferries to Basseterre on St Kitts leave from the same pier roughly hourly. Currency is the East Caribbean dollar, driving is on the left, and there is no ATM at the pier itself.

Getting to Charlestown

From the cruise terminal to the city centre

Things to do