St Peterport greets cruise ships with a vista of colorful houses climbing steeply from a quayside busy with luxury yachts and fishing boats.

Guernsey is a compact island - just 24 square miles - which means that nowhere is more than a 30-minute ride from St Peter Port

Cruise ships will tender you to the center of town. Tenders are often not able to land passengers due to adverse weather conditions.

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Cruise calendar for this port.

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Guernsey's capital has been a busy entrepôt since Roman times. Her deep, safe anchorage and relative remoteness from France made St Peterport the Channel Islands' premier port, graced by the wealth of ship builders, privateers and merchant adventurers. Georgian and Regency styles were enriched by an influx of French emigrés, including Victor Hugo, whose influences included Parisian-style urinoirs. Today the town is a captivating blend of styles, framed by a tumble of terraces and tiered gardens and crisscrossed by worn steps and hidden alleys.
Shopping in St Peterport is an unmissable experience. Electronic and photographic equipment, jewellery and perfume are all good, low duty buys, along with wines, spirits and tobacco and of course the famous Guernsey jumper. Small boutiques offer exclusive clothes, shoes and leather goods, whilst the Old Quarter is the place to find antiques. But take time to just look around you. After all, this is the Channel Islands' most beautiful town.

The bus service is excellent for tourists. Its cheap and frequent during the daytime hours. A nice thing to do is take the public bus #7 around the island, it will cost approx £1 each and lasts about 50 minutes, it gives a good overview of the island, you can get off and where you want.

St Peterport itself is very steep.

Fine antique shops along Mansell Street and Mill Street in one of the oldest and prettiest parts of St Peterport.

Snap up a traditional curvy Guernsey Milk Can at the Edwardian Tin shop at Sausmarez Manor.

The Channel Islands have been in currency union with the United Kingdom and the Guernsey and Jersey pound are not a separate currency but are local issues of banknotes and coins denominated in pound sterling, in a similar way to the banknotes issued in Scotland and Northern Ireland

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Guernsey's shopping hours run from 09:00 to around 17:30 Monday to Saturday, with only a handful of shops actually opening on Sundays.

Public holidays are the same as the UK with the addition of Liberation Day on 9 May.

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