Top 5 Commuter Ferry Rides That Beat Most Cruises
Cheap, short ferry crossings with better views than a week at sea, plus you can still make it home for dinner.
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Star Ferry — Tsim Sha Tsui to Central, Hong Kong
It's cost pocket change for over a century and still gives you the best skyline view in Asia. Sit on the upper deck at dusk.
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Bosphorus Ferry — Kadıköy to Eminönü, Istanbul
Tea in a tulip glass, a simit for the gulls, and you go from Asia to Europe in about twenty minutes. No cruise ship offers that.
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Manly Ferry — Circular Quay to Manly, Sydney
You pass the Opera House on your way to a beach, and on a choppy day the open water near the heads feels like a free thrill ride.
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Staten Island Ferry — New York City
It's completely free, it goes right past the Statue of Liberty, and you get to feel smug about everyone who paid for a tour boat.
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Seattle–Bainbridge Island Ferry, Washington
Thirty-five minutes of the Olympics on one side and Mount Rainier on the other, and the regulars don't even look up from their laptops.