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Well, as I said earlier pick up is at the Molo del Bicchiere stop, while drop off is at Bramante. Both are near the fort. Often folks only see one of the stops and assume that they can't use it, not understanding that one is only drop off and the other is only pick up. All that said, my experience with Civitavecchia is that there are no hard and fast rules, unfortunately. Go as prepared with information as you can but be prepared to be flexible and adjust on the spot.

It's not clear if you can get a shuttle from the stop near the fort out to the terminal near slip #12. In the past you could not, then you could, so who knows what the story is today. This page on the Port Mobility web site suggests that it is possible, but I don't know how updated this information is: Shuttles | Port Mobility Civitavecchia The green line shuttle is the one that goes to piers 10-13 terminal. Pick up is at the Molo del Bicchiere stop, while drop off is at Bramante. Both are near the fort.

There are no guarantees, but looking at the schedule for this week the Celebrity ships all seem to be at either 12 or 13: Crociere in Partenza al Porto di Civitavecchia: Agosto 2022 | Port Mobility Civitavecchia Worst case that would mean a walk of about 2.5 km/one and a half miles from the fort entrance. Best case would be about 1.3 km/just under a mile.

For another perspective, we pushed my mother and my aunt in wheelchairs from the Archaeology museum back to the port (about 2 km/one and a quarter miles, gently downhill), after getting them on and off public buses to visit our family's historic parish church. Old European cities are not particularly wheelchair friendly (and I've been to many of them with wheelchairs over the last twenty years) but it's not impossible. Many high end shoppers head right to Via Chiaia and Piazza dei Martiri in Naples, where you can find several famous brands, like Ferragamo or Armani, and a few steps further along Via Filangeri for Hermès, to Via dei Mille for Gucci, Louis Vuitton and others.

From the RCI website: Explore transfer options to the Port of Ravenna from Bologna Airport (1.5 hours away), Venice City Center (2.5 hours away), and Venice Airport (2.5 hours away). Call us at (866-562-7625) to learn more. Maybe the best way to get current information is to call them. The frequency of shuttles may depend on the number of ships in port on any given day. Copied from here: Cruises from Venice (Ravenna), Italy | Royal Caribbean Cruises

What is your next port? If you're heading north you will see some of the coast (Vietri sul Mare, in particular) as you pull in and out, but a big cruise ship will not travel close enough to short to see much. If you've ever come in and out of Port Everglades in Florida you get the idea, a long perpendicular route straight out and away from the coast. Pompei and Herculaneum in the same day is a bit of a push. With a guided overview tour, a minimal stop at Pompei will require three hours. It will take about a half hour to drive between Pompei and Herculeneum, then assuming a two hour stay and a one hour ride back to Salerno you'd be back at the ship around 3:30. Note that this does not include time for lunch - add in lunch and it's a full day. A responsible car service is not going to head out along the Amalfi Coast road anywhere near the time you need to be back, the traffic would make the risk of not getting back too high. If you eat lunch on the run and get back with a couple of hours to spare, you could have your driver take you to Vietri sul Mare, the eastern most of the Amalfi Coast villages and the one know for ceramics. If you just go to Pompei and return to Salerno, you could have your driver drop you off at the Concordia ferry dock, where you could get a ferry along the coast and back easily.

If you can take a ship transfer at 6 AM you'd be at the airport by 7 (it's 66 km/41 miles, almost entirely on the autostrada). Unfortunately, Ireland is not part of the Schengen zone so you'll need to go through passport control at Fiumicino, meaning you should allow three hours prior to the flight. Arrival at the airport at 7 AM for an 11 AM flight is more than enough time.

Well, if she would wait on the ship for you until you return at 12:30 there would still be plenty of time for shopping, but maybe the delay getting started will help your bottom line?

Only Trenitalia services the route between Civitavecchia and the airport. This trip requires a change, usually at Roma Trastevere. Assuming you are on a transatlantic flight, you'll need to be at the airport no later than 11:15 AM. The last connection that would accomplish this departs Civitavecchia at 9:43 and arrives to the airport at 11:16, after a change at Trastevere. To be safe, I would take an earlier train, the 9:07 arriving to the airport at 10:48 leaves you plenty of room for error. If you're up and out earlier there's also a train at 8:42 arriving to the airport at 10:18. All of these trains are regionales, so there are no seat assignments and the train cannot sell out. They will be crowded. When using the Trenitalia web site, even on the English language pages you must enter the station names in Italian. In this case your stations are Civitavecchia and Fiumicino Aeroporto.

Even easier, there is a ferry from Naples departing from the dock adjacent to the cruise port. It departs at 8:35 and arrives to Amalfi at 10:20. You'd need to get off the ferry, then back on the same one as it continues on to Positano and then back to Naples, arriving back at Beverello at 12:30. Given that the shops don't open in Naples until 10 AM, you wouldn't be horribly behind your wife. NLG » Official website (navlib.it)

Must you do everything together? If all you want is a view of the coast you can take a train to Salerno, then a ferry along the coast, followed by a ferry to Sorrrento and another to return to Naples. It's pretty easy and it wouldn't take all day, but probably more time than your wife will want to give up. Could you meet her somewhere in Naples in the afternoon?

You will have a view as you come into the port. You may or may not have a view while docked, it will depend on what is near you. The cruise port in Catania is less than a mile from Catania Centrale train station, you could easily walk there and get a train along the coast to enjoy the view. Taormina is a popular destination; you can buy a combination train & bus ticket from Trenitalia that takes you right into the town. From Taormina there are amazing views, especially from the public gardens. More about Taormina: Taormina - Going through the town - what you can see

#9415 from Venezia arrives to Ferrara at 12:27, scheduled on track 3. #17619 starts at Ferrara and departs at 12:35 from track 1, which is adjacent to the station. This means you will need to transit under the tracks to get from track 3 to track 1, if everything runs to plan. Ferrara arrivals here: Orario dei treni in arrivo nella stazione di Ferrara - RFI Ferarra departures here: Orario dei treni in partenza dalla stazione di Ferrara - RFI

Maybe people feel more comfortable there because it's as close to a British resort as you'll find while still being an Italian town? Sorrento is also significantly larger than the three Amalfi Coast villages (Sorrento is not on the Amalfi Coast, it is part of the Sorrentine peninsula). All four of these locations are heavily touristed. If you're on a tour and Sorrento is the last stop, I would seriously consider leaving the tour in Sorrento and getting back to Naples on my own using the ferry. It's an easy and quick ferry ride (45 minutes), faster than a car or bus can make the trip on land and far, far more comfortable.

That may have been available because the ship was disembarking at the end of a cruise, I have not heard of this being available for a port day stop.

On the way back you won't have the same issues with other cruisers as your ship stays in port quite a bit later than most. You are, however, heading back to Civitavecchia along with many local residents who use the train to commute to the city for work. The all-aboard time for smaller ships is generally thirty minutes prior but with a large ship it may be more like an hour, so you'd need to plan to be back by 7 PM. Allowing a half hour to get from the train station to the ship, whether on foot or by bus, that means a train that arrives by 6:30. The wisest way to approach this is to take the train before the one that gets you back in time, just in case. In this case, that would mean the 17:12 (5:12 PM) regionale arriving at 18:17 (6:17 PM) is that last one that would get you back in time. The regional train before this departs at 16:42 and arrives at 18:05. This would be the safe one. There is another option for the return, a Frecciabiana that departs Rome Termini at 16:57 and arrives to Civitavecchia at 17:44 (non stop). This train has assigned seating.

On August 18th, a weekday, there are seven regional trains between 7 - 9 AM. Given the size of the ship and the disembarkation procedures I would not count on getting anything earlier than 8 AM. As noted above, the regional trains stop at several different stations in Rome. Unless your first stop in the city is right near Termini station it's a waste of time to stay on the train to that stop, get off at one of the earlier stations instead. For timing perspective, the 7:58 regional train arrives to Termini at 9:18. The first train with assigned seats is the 9:16 Frecciabianca that arrives to Termini at 10:03 (non stop). The first train with assigned seats that stops before Termini is the 9:24 IC train that arrives to Roma Ostiense at 10:15 (non stop). From Ostiense you can get the metro for two stops and be at the Colosseum. You can see the train schedules here: EN - Trenitalia Note that even on the English language pages you must use the Italian names for the cities.

There are several different types of trains. The most frequent are the regionals, which do not have assigned seats and do get packed like cattle cars. For more money you can get seat assigned trains like the ICs or the Frecces. There is also the Civitavecchia Express. This tourist train does not have assigned seats but you are guaranteed a seat as they only sell as many tickets as there are seats.

Wonder is one of the biggest ships so it will likely be at pier 25. You cannot walk from there, you'll have to take the free port shuttle to the exit at Largo della Pace. From there to the train station is a one mile, flat walk in pretty much a straight line. There is also a local bus, but unless it happens to be loading when you arrive at the stop you'll probably get there faster on foot.

I get it. I'm usually all about maximizing my time in the port but I'd have to think about whether a half hour is worth a very big difference in comfort.

Using the main track head does mean it's closer to the metro. Is the 9:16 Frecce the first train you can reasonably make?

I don't know where the cruise line buses drop off but the public bus, Interbus, leaves you an easy 1 km/six-tenths of a mile from the greek theatre. The bus depot is located at Terminal Interbus Taormina, Via Luigi Pirandello, 98039 Taormina ME, Italy. The start of the bus line is at Piazza della Repubblica in Messina, 750 meters/one half mile on foot from the cruise port. The direct bus takes 50 minutes and costs euro 4,30. Interbus - Viaggi in autobus in Sicilia

I would never miss the opportunity to have an afternoon and dinner in Rome, even more so if the alternatives were Civitavecchia or the airport. Some folks here like staying in the town of Fiumicino and having dinner at/near the sea, that's another option.

Why are cruise lines so incapable of getting their information straight? It seems to happen with all of them. On Celebrity's web site they state: The Santa Margherita cruise port is a tender port, and you’ll be tendered ashore via a smaller boat from your ship. The above was copied from this page: Santa Margherita Cruise: Best Cruises to Santa Margherita | Celebrity Cruises

We went on a Med cruise in July several years ago because the kids were all still in school and it was the only time we could do it. It's a double whammy, the heat, as everyone has mentioned, but also the pace of the trip, a major city almost every day, twelve hours on the ground running around trying to cram it all in. Livorno was our fifth day/fourth stop, after a full day in Malta, then Naples, then Rome. No one had the energy to go to Florence and I didn't have the heart to force the issue. Fortunately, of the four kids only one was turned off entirely to the idea of Europe.