Your day, step by step
08:15
Tender ashore. Pick up a map at the jetty and walk to the Visitor Centre.
09:00
Site opens. Collect or buy your ticket and choose a harbour cruise time. See the Port Arthur Gallery in the Visitor Centre.
09:45
Walk to the Penitentiary, the site's best-known ruin. Join a free guide talk where one is scheduled.
10:45
Separate Prison and the Church.
11:45
Lunch: Asylum Café (from 11:30) or 1830 Restaurant & Bar (11:30–14:30, bookable).
13:00
Isle of the Dead Cemetery Tour (A$30, 40 minutes plus the harbour cruise). If you skip it, take the included 20-minute harbour cruise instead.
14:15
Commandant's House, the Government Gardens and the Memorial Garden.
15:30
Back near the jetty; browse the cruise-day market if one is set up.
- Latest you can leave Visitor Centre and Penitentiary (Port Arthur Historic Site)15:55
16:00
Join the tender queue, 90 minutes before all-aboard.
One port done
Your Port Arthur day is timed. Now the rest of your cruise.
The Cruise Pass times every port of one sailing, up to 10, to your all-aboard like this, with a Plan B if you run late, an offline copy, and live mode on the day: Google Maps travel time back to the pier and alerts at 30, 15 and 0 minutes.
€14.99 once, nothing renews. 30-day full refund.
Where to leave from, and when
on foot bus, train, boat taxiPins show when to leave each place. Lines: route back to your ship.
Going further? Leave by these times
- Visitor Centre and Penitentiary (Port Arthur Historic Site)Walk about 5 min to the tender jetty, then the tender queue15:55
- Separate Prison, Commandant's House and gardensWalk across the site to the tender jetty, then the tender queue15:50
- Isle of the Dead (on the cemetery tour)Tour boat back to the jetty (about 20 min), then the tender queue; take the 12:20 or 13:00 departure15:40
Where people get Port Arthur wrong
Joining the tender queue too late, or booking the 15:00 Isle of the Dead tour on a 17:30 all-aboard.
Built from our Port Arthur guide, checked against 12 official sources (November 2026). Nothing here is guessed. Read the full guide or see the sources.
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You just timed Port Arthur to your own all-aboard. Every other port on your cruise needs the same, and your ship's times change at each one. The Cruise Pass does this for every port of your sailing, up to 10: each day timed to your ship, a Plan B if you run late, and live mode on the day with Google Maps travel time back to the pier and alerts at 30, 15 and 0 minutes. Every plan uses the same checked facts as this guide. Nothing is made up.
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- Every port of your cruise timed to your all-aboard, in port time and ship time
- Live on the day: Google Maps travel time back to the pier, alerts at 30, 15 and 0 minutes
- The full planner for each port, with a Plan B if you run late
- An offline copy for when there is no signal
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