Are you going to take a cruise and want to know if you should do a tour independently or with the cruise line? It is the first time you’re traveling on a cruise and do not know yet whether to take a trip by cruise line or do it independently. What you must remember is [...]
I’ve heard many people indicate that they wouldn’t want to go on a cruise vacation because they couldn’t enjoy being cooped up in a boat for that long. But that really isn’t a problem for two reasons. The first reason is that the luxury cruise ships are not boats you can be cooped up in. [...]
You’ve got more options than you think! – Onboard Tour Desk Offerings – Third Party Organized Excursions – Striking Out On Your Own – Staying On Board the Ship Onboard tour desk offerings – No doubt about it – shore excursions are a huge revenue source for the cruise lines – grossly over priced in many [...]
Some Mediterranean cruise guests can get a really big shock when they get off the gangway at the port of Livorno Italy and realize they are very, very far from where they would like to be. Instead of Tuscan sunflower fields there’s only a never-ending field of containers. There’s no Florence Duomo tower anywhere in [...]