Portofino cruise stop in summer

Besides being an expensive place to buy ice cream, Portofino is infinitely tiny. It consists of a combination town square/boat ramp that is a couple of hundred feet on each side and a few more hundred feet of street. That's it.

You can buy a beer, buy a t-shirt, buy a beer ......buy a gelato.

There is noting else to do except maybe walk along the coast road in a crowd of tourists.

Or you could use Steve's links and drop half a grand to a grand to kill time.

If the launches from the ship make multiple sorties, go in buy a t-shirt, buy a ....... Then go back to the boat.

I think you'd enjoy a loop hike from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure, one way along the sidewalk by the sea and the other through the hills as described in Rick's Italy book.