we just visited Portland Maine and here are four things you must do while
touring Portland Maine old port is where all of the hubbub is in Portland Maine
it's about 15 blocks long and four blocks up a small incline even though
it's called old port that's where everything happens it's got a lot of
modern hip tours and lobster rolls to try to we even saw the Royal Caribbean
anthem of the Seas pull into the port in Portland Maine there and all those
people have plenty of tours to choose from so you know you're going to have
great options in tours pop into my video and I will share with you the four
gorgeous and yummy things to do in Portland Maine if you ask 20 people
where the best lobster roll is in Portland Maine you will get 20 different
answers we had the guy at the port where the cruise ship people walked off the
boat through customs we had him tell us that the Portland lobster company was
the best to him and he said that the lobster shack at the two lights the two
lights lighthouses gets voted number one every single year
by locals but I could not find that statistic anywhere in my research so I
don't know if that's true the lobster Shack is a place it's probably the most
popular place because if you're eating a lobster roll you may want a beautiful
view then that's where you want to go because it does have a beautiful view
and a big area with lots of tables however it does not have more than maybe
30 parking spaces and you're down a pedestrian street a neighborhood street
you're at the dead end of that street they have probably 20 spaces right there
or if you turn around and go and start going back up the hill there's a little
bitty parking lot for maybe ten more cars there are mini parking lots parking
decks to choose from but you can pay ten dollars for the whole day if you're
smart and find one of those you can pay five dollars an hour at
some of them also the parking on the streets in the weekend is free but they
are only two hour limit parkings my friend tarilyn who lives in portland
recommended scales it is an upscale like in price restaurant seafood restaurant
at night it's mostly business casual but we did see like khaki shorts and a nice
shirt that kind of thing and we did see athleisure because you're in america my
seared scallops and seared bacon chunks in a poblano corn sauce was to die for
and it was about 30 ish dollars and my mom got the whole lobster but they do
prepare it for you I mean if you're a newbie at eating lobster you'll know how
to get into it it's very easy my personal favorite place for a lobster
roll only because this is the only place we ate twice in a 24-hour period
because it was so good the first time was bite into Maine and that is at the
Portland head light lighthouse 15 minutes away from old port my car this
lighthouse is probably the most pictured lighthouse in Maine this is where it is
but it's only a food truck but they have the most delicious
lobster rolls they have three huge parking lots so free easy huge parking
when you go into the park for free you just keep moving to the right keep
following the road to the right and you'll see the food truck delicious they
have two other locations one is a stream a silver stream kind of truck outside of
the allagash Brewing Company and then they are also building their own
brick-and-mortar restaurant so the next time I go back I'm going to try that
they have like five different ways that you can order a lobster roll lobster
rolls come in they're like dry lobster meat that is just right temperature-wise
it's not cold it's not I see cold it's not hot it's just like a
little chilled temperature and then they put it on top of slaw like
mayonnaise slaw and then they fold this it looked like a big piece of toast warm
toast that was drenched in butter well that
was lathered in melted warm butter and then they poured the butter sauce the
melted butter on top of the lobster it was like enough meat from a whole
lobster and it was $18 so be prepared but at restaurants they're 30 something
dollars twenty something dollars okay my friend Natasha's favorite place is
somewhere that's 45 minutes away and she says she pays $25 for a lobster roll
there so I was kind of sticker shocked because if it's a tourism thing it's a
tourist place so $18 and then you can choose something that had the mayonnaise
mixed in with the lobster and no slaw you can choose curried lobster so it's
got some curry in the Mayo some Chipotle I don't remember the other ones but so
good and you can also get clam chowder and they don't put too many potatoes in
their clam chowder bite into Maine love it at Fort Williams Park honestly you
are gonna have fresh Lobster if you're in Portland Maine so wherever you go is
probably going to be fabulous it depends on if you want to view or if you don't
care or if you don't have a car that will help decide where you want to go
and I'll link these websites below in the description box right there you just
click on the upside down triangle if you're watching me on your phone and
it'll take you to the description box that will give you all the links to
everywhere I'm talking about take a tour you're going to tour Portland you're
going to take a walking tour around just the old port that is not a lot of
walking at all okay do it this is the best way to get your bang for a buck
when you're visiting a city when you're touring a city like Portland
it's very walkable everything is right there in that part
of the city now we used main foodie tours and they also have regular tours
like just a walking art tour if that's more your job you can choose
among 15 tours from their website I will also link that below and because winter
is coming up they drop a lot of their tours in the winter so check that
schedule and plan in advance you will be so glad you took a tour you can even
choose the type of tour like a happy hour tour an art tour a lunchtime
lobster crawl tour culinary tour which is what we did and many more so check
out their link we are huge fans of food tours in Europe we've taken one in
Seattle along the Pike Place Market and this is our second u.s. food tour that
we've gone on and we were not disappointed and it was $60 for three
hours of food with quirky stories and history you really get to know the
culture and the history and what people went through in an in a fun short
snippet kind of a way so you're not bored you're not reading a book you're
not listening to someone do a speech about the history of Portland Maine it's
just fascinating and you're getting to taste the most delicious food in the
area okay my tip is don't forget to bring laters it was 68 degrees and sunny
completely sunny today we were there and I needed a cardigan in the shade okay if
you're gonna take a to one of their tours on the boat or on a truck you need
to wear several layers because you're gonna be much colder if you're on a
truck or a boat and don't forget to bring cash I totally forgot to bring
cash to tip your guide you are going to want to tip them because they are so
lovable and you just want to be their best friend by the end of the tour so
don't forget cash another reason I like to use a tour like
a food tour or something with a guide is they can give you their own personal
take because they are a local to that city like Portland Maine
I had read or watched a video about going up munjoy
hill going all the way up to the observation tower on Munjoy Hill which
is great there's just hardly any parking and you have to walk there and this guy
Avery our awesome guide told us another part that's much farther all the way up
Congress and and all the way to the dead end that's where Congress dead ends to the
east promenade that is where you are going to want to go that is one of the
things you must see in Portland Maine y'all you start in Congress Street which
is right in the middle of the hubbub of old port and you just go up east on
Congress Street and just keep going up the hill past the observatory all the
way to the top of the hill and back down just a little bit and it just totally
opens up all these green fields a little bit of a monument and some history facts
you are going to have to be able to bring your kids here there's a huge
playground there's a little baseball field nobody was on it this Sunday
afternoon when we were there there's a place to just lay on the grass get a
good quick brisk walk if it's cold it was very windy up there and I also
recommend highly recommend going in the afternoon if you know it's going to be
sunny because all that water you're looking which way are you you're looking
to the east so the Sun is behind you and the blue waters are gonna just look like
bright bright bright blue all the white lighthouses and all the islands in Casco
Bay around Portland you are going to be able to see from there and just have a
lovely time free parking tons of free parking and RV spots you will have
plenty of spots to turn around and park very easily okay the fourth thing that
you will walk to not this in Portland Maine is the to light house to likes
lighthouses I'm getting so tongue twist
and the two lights lighthouses although we only saw one lighthouse with a light
on it and then we I'm assuming the other light is in the building beside it that's
where the Lobster Shack is it's adjacent to this lighthouse area and it is okay
it would make an okay picture but the best lighthouse view is from the
Portland head light lighthouse in Fort Williams Park like I said it's free to
get in it's free to park and the awesome lobster roll at the bite into maine the
only thing i didn't like is their only toilets are porta-potties they have like
ten of them and that's it they have three huge parking lots all this land
all this acreage for you to walk around and you can do a cliff walk we saw a
person I'm getting married on the edge of the little lighthouse area but a
port-a-potty what if she had to use the port-a-potty in her wedding dress I was
so disappointed i turned into a spoiled rotten brat it's a quick 15 minute
ride in the car take uber take a tour over there you're not gonna spend too
much time there unless you're eating less you're walking around it is a place
where you can use a bus tour very easily as well I suggest go in there to get
some great pictures and again I suggest go in there in the afternoon the Sun
will be behind you in that lighthouse that's gonna look so bright and the
water and the views just look so crisp and picturesque I hope you get to do
these four things in Portland Maine they must be part of your Portland Maine
vacation thanks for popping over pop over again soon and leave me a
comment below if you want to and tell me of one of your must do things in
Portland Maine because I am definitely going back