Is Southampton UK safe to explore before a cruise? We spent one day in the city before our 2-week cruise and explored the city on foot.
Get our in-depth commentary about our feelings of safety in Southampton UK on our Southampton podcast episode on The Places Where We Go travel podcast:
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0:00 Introduction to the cruise capital of Europe
1:14 Getting to Southampton UK
2:18 Arrival at Southampton Central Train Station
2:56 Walk the Southampton walls
6:03 Ruins at Church of the Holy Rood
9:16 God’s House Tower
10:16 Lunch at Maritimo Lounge
11:30 The Weigh House
11:58 Mayflower Memorial
13:30 Southampton Castle ruins
14:21 Spidey sense alert in Southampton
15:32 Titanic memorial
16:17 Harbour Hotel and Harbar restaurant
22:26 Visiting Southampton before a cruise closing thoughts
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24 Comments
What are your travel tips for visiting Southampton UK?
I have a daughter who is studying in Southampton so have visited quite a few times. I would say it's generally a safe place although it's not really a tourist destination more a working port. As you mentioned it was heavily bombed in the 2nd world war so a lot of the buildings are post war and a little tired so it's not going to win any beauty awards.
Liverpool is way better 👍
14:17 If you followed that path up to the right of the window you looked through you would find the Tudor House Museum which holds a Tudor garden.
23:38 That face you noticed, there are about 20+ faces down that street, they're all hidden so you need to keep an eye out. There is also a map of all the commissioned street art in Southampton. Including mosaics, benches and charity statues.
There are other things that may interest you that you may not have noticed. For instance the D-Day graffiti, the messages the American troops wrote on the walls before they were shipped out to Normandy.
Think your spidy sense may have been working overtime. Southampton is a safe town to wander around and visit. Maybe there was a football match on?
I was a student at Southampton Uni. The Uni made possibly the most expensive financial error ever. The Uni invented the fibre optic cable but failed to patent it. You tell me what that patent is worth today. Literally £ Billions.
One of the UK's nicer cities. Even living there is not rediculously expensive.
I love Southampton….ive lost count of the times ive been there…always wanted to live there…
Go to see Benny Hills grave…
Is it safe? Where do you think you are? The USA?
Since when has Southampton been one of the most beloved cities?
Gaol is pronounced the same as jail
I have lived in Southampton all my life, and it's always nice to have Americans in our city because you are lovely people. I thought you may have gone to the Mayflower memorial where the Mayflower sailed to America from, or even the American D-Day wall where a lot of GI's wrote their names in the brickwork prior to embarkation for the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
The city centre is reasonably safe, but if you venture into the inner city areas, it does become less safe and there are some dodgy individuals about, especially towards the evening time, but they aren't very tourist orientated areas anyway.
Anyway, it was nice of you to video your experiences, and I do hope you have a lovely cruise, and you come back to us.
It’s not a war zone 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Southampton during the daytime (and probably the nighttime) is a perfectly safe place to be. The only time you would want to be indoors is at 11pm on a Friday night (kicking out time for pubs), and even then, the only danger is from some drunk teenagers barfing on your shoes.
If people are looking at you, it is probably that they are wondering why you are bothering to carry a GoPro on a stick in such a nondescript city (i.e., you probably just look a bit odd to them, but they bear you no malice). A quick look on the internet shows that crime in Southampton is half the UK average, and even then the UK is a pretty safe place.
I think you’ve captured all the sites you need to see in Southampton but here are a couple of extra ideas. The Grapes pub in Oxford St where all the men drank before they got on the Titanic. Also South Western house where the upper class people stayed before getting on the Titanic.
Also from Southampton you can catch the red jet or ferry to the IOW.
You can catch a train to Winchester the old capital of Wessex, Portsmouth and look around the waterfront, or Bournemouth for the beaches.
There are a lot of things to do in the area.
Southampton becomes lively late Friday and Saturday evenings, with all the party people out drinking to excess.
Hi there, great video. We live in a village about 25 minutes away from Southampton and really enjoyed your video. We love cruises and obviously cruise from Southampton as much as possible. Thank you for creating your video.
Thanks for the video! If you mentioned it, I missed it. What month of the year was this? Also, where were you able to put your suitcases during your train ride from London to Southampton?
The british transport police have a station at Southampton Central Station
Hi there, lifelong Southampton resident here, contrary to a few other youtube channels which liek to paint Southampton as a dangerous crime ridden hell hole in order to score cheap political points, I've always felt saef here, certainly safer than in the bigger English cities, as anywhere in the UK you can probably find trouble if looking for it, but people will generally leave you alone if you're a tourist and well intentioned.
Local here. A few other things to do – perhaps on a rainy day – The Sea City museum, Tudor House, and Solent Sky museums are all worth a visit. During the summer you can hop on a bus and visit the New Forest – one of Great Britain's national parks. There you can visit villages such as Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, Lymington for a nice pleasant walk in and around the forest with plenty of local shops, cafes and ponies roaming around! Other places to visit in a short distance of Southampton are Romsey and Winchester – two lovely places that again have plenty of things to visit, eat, and nice walks. Hopefully you enjoyed your visit here and we look forward to seeing you and your viewers return in the future!
I am very pleased that you enjoyed your visit to Southampton.May your next visit be just as enjoyable and pleasant as your previous one.
Nice! I spent 5 nights in Southampton before my cruise, not arriving till about 11 pm by bus from Heathrow after my flight from the US. So I had 4 full days: Day 1, explored Southampton pretty much as you did. Day 2: Took ferry to the Isle of Wight and walked up to Osborne. Day 3: Took train to Winchester, visited the Cathedral, and joined a guided historical walking tour. Day 4: Took train to Portsmouth and spent the day at the Royal Naval Dockyards. Loved my visit thoroughly. Stayed at the Travelodge which was great–meeting all my needs and my budget. In Southampton, I found the juxtaposition of old and new, block by block, really stimulating. I felt safe; there were some sketchy folk hanging out and I did notice that the streets really cleared out after dark. I'm from NYC, however, so nothing seemed abnormal to me
Gaol is pronounced the same as jail. It is essentially a different spelling of the same word, both pronounced with a soft j.