Private excursion

Private La Goulette Shore Excursion

Your own vehicle from the moment you leave the La Goulette terminal, a route cut to the hours you actually have, and a return timed backwards from the all-aboard hour you state in your enquiry.

On request

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At a glance

  • Duration

    From a half day to a full day, according to how long your ship is in port. The programme is cut to the hours genuinely available ashore, with timings set out in the quote.

  • Who it suits

    Cruise passengers calling at La Goulette: couples, families and small groups who would rather shape their own day than follow a coach party.

  • Price

    On request

A day ashore built around your own timetable, not a coach company's. Depending on the hours available, the route can take in the Tunis medina, the Bardo, the site of Carthage, Sidi Bou Said and the La Marsa seafront before returning to the terminal. Naceur Neffeti holds declared access to the port areas used for cruise calls.

Pick-up

La Goulette cruise terminal, at the ship's stated arrival time. A fallback meeting point just outside the port, agreed in advance.

How the day unfolds

The order of the stops shifts with your start time, the traffic and how long you want to spend at each place.

  1. La Goulette Terminal

    You are met as you come out of the terminal, name board in hand, and you leave straight away: no head counts, no waiting for a coach to fill. Naceur Neffeti holds declared access to the port areas used for cruise calls; if the day's instructions require it, the meeting moves to the fallback point agreed beforehand, a short walk away.

  2. Tunis

    Twenty minutes or so and you are at the medina gates: covered souks, perfume sellers, chechia makers, the approach to the Zitouna mosque. If mosaics appeal more than markets, this stop becomes the Bardo museum instead, its opening days checked ahead of your date.

  3. Carthage

    Carthage is spread over several sectors: the Antonine Baths at the water's edge, the Byrsa hill with its view across the gulf, the Punic quarter, the cisterns. The vehicle moves with you between them, which is what makes the essentials possible without a long walk in the sun when hours are tight.

  4. Sidi Bou Said and La Marsa

    The last stop is the blue-and-white village: cobbled lanes, studded doors, terraces above the gulf. If time allows, the day stretches on to the La Marsa corniche and a tea facing the sea, then back down to the terminal on the schedule set out in the quote, traffic margin included.

What travelling privately changes

  • The vehicle is yours alone: no group coach, no standing at a muster point while the clock of a short call runs down.
  • The route shortens or lengthens according to the hours you really have ashore, and is re-cut during the day if traffic makes that sensible.
  • The return is timed backwards from the all-aboard hour you give us, with the margin written plainly into the quote.
  • Naceur Neffeti holds declared access to the port areas used for La Goulette cruise calls; a fallback pick-up point is agreed in case the day's instructions require it.
  • Working in transport and travel since 1987 and driving travellers since 2007, he speaks Arabic, French, English, German, Italian and Spanish.

What is included, what is not

Included

  • A private air-conditioned vehicle with driver, at your disposal for the whole of the call.
  • Collection at the terminal and return to the terminal.
  • Fuel, tolls and parking.
  • A programme cut to your ship's timings and reviewed with you before the day itself.
  • Waiting time at every stop, with no obligatory shopping halt.

Not included

  • Entrance tickets and site fees.
  • Meals, drinks and personal purchases.
  • A licensed guide, an optional service arranged on request.
  • Any formalities or documents your cruise line requires for re-boarding.

Practical advice

  • Give us the ship's name, the port of call, the date, the arrival and departure times and the number of participants when you enquire: the whole programme is built from those details.
  • Keep with you the identity document and boarding card your cruise line requires for re-boarding.
  • Closed, comfortable shoes: the medina and the Carthage sectors are covered on foot, over worn paving and gravel.
  • Shoulders and knees covered if a place of worship or the approach to the Zitouna mosque is on the plan.
  • On a short call, three stops done properly beat five skimmed: the driver will say plainly what fits in the time you have.

Your questions

How is the return to the terminal timed?

It is built backwards from the all-aboard hour you state in your enquiry, subtracting the drive, a traffic margin and time for formalities. That margin is written into the quote, and the day's programme is sized to respect it.

Can the vehicle come right up to the terminal?

Naceur Neffeti holds declared access to the port areas used for La Goulette cruise calls. Access on the day still depends on the instructions of the port authority and of your cruise line, which is why a fallback meeting point a short walk from the terminal is always agreed in advance.

What do we need to tell you when we enquire?

The form asks for the ship's name, the port of call, the date, the arrival and departure times, and the number of participants. With those in hand, the programme is cut to the hours you genuinely have rather than to a notional duration.

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