Wannacruise24

Thanks for the info! It's really appreciated. This is going to be my first cruise and I am so excited. I'm trying to research everything but it get a little overwhelming at times😀

I will be doing a Mediterranean cruise in Oct, visiting Villefranche,France, Ajacciao,Corsica, Cagliari,Sardinia, Valletta,Malta, Messina, Sicily, and Naples, Italy. I was wondering how many, if any, of these ports can you just get off the ship and wonder around on your own, or do you have to take an excursion or some other transportation to actually get into the town/city to see anything. Any recommendations on tours would also be appreciated.

This is my first time booking a cruise and I have a question about the ports of call. The cruise lines list ports of call and I have been researching, so that I can budget for excursions, etc. When researching the cruise port listed vs the actual docking port, some of them seem to be quiet a distance apart. My question is this- do the cruise line transport you to the port of call listed on their site, so that you can then pick up an excursion or do your own thing, or do you have to take an excursion or find your own transportation to those places? As an example, Seville, Spain is a port of call on the site, but when researching on google earth, it seems that the docking port is almost 100km away. There are several other ports with similar distances and I'm just wondering what to expect. Can someone who has cruised the Mediterranean pass along some feedback? It would be greatly appreciated by this newbe. Thanks