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AberdeenCruise port guide

Ships dock at Aberdeen Cruise Ship Terminal. These are the stops worth your time, timed on foot from the terminal.

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Where ships dock

One cruise terminal.

  • Aberdeen Cruise Ship Terminal

Walkable from the pier

Walk times from Aberdeen Cruise Ship Terminal.

  1. 25min

    Muzo's Turkish Kitchen

    Beachfront Turkish restaurant serving authentic charcoal kebabs

  2. 29min

    Union Square

    Central shopping and dining mall adjoining the railway station

  3. 29min

    Scottish & Ancient

    Curated antiquities, collectables, and Scottish curiosities

  4. 29min

    Maki & Ramen

    Comforting Japanese ramen noodles and handmade maki sushi

  5. 30min

    Aberdeen Maritime Museum

    Multi-level museum detailing fishing, clippers, and offshore oil

  6. 30min

    Tolbooth Museum

    Chilling seventeenth-century civic jail and local history museum

  7. 30min

    Mercat Cross

    Intricately carved seventeenth-century civic market cross

  8. 30min

    Mercat Bookshop

    Second-hand bookshop on Aberdeen's Castlegate

  9. 30min

    Aberdam Dutch Fries

    Award-winning takeaway on Shiprow serving loaded fries and burgers

See all 42 stops in the planner

Hidden gems

Worth finding if you have an hour spare.

  1. 9min

    Torry Battery

    Historic coastal artillery battery overlooking the harbour entrance

  2. 11min

    Girdle Ness Lighthouse

    Majestic Stevenson lighthouse on the rugged headland

  3. 12min

    Silver Darling

    Harbourside restaurant at Pocra Quay

  4. 13min

    Footdee (Fittie)

    Charming nineteenth-century coastal fishing community with whimsical outhouses

  5. 33min

    Provost Skene's House

    Aberdeen's oldest surviving town house celebrating local trailblazers

More ports nearby: Peterhead, Dundee, Invergordon, Leith (Edinburgh), Glasgow (Greenock).