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thinking of choosing a last minute cruise on Celebrity. The Celebrity airfares offered automatically chooses VCE but Bologna seems a bit closer. Also Celebrity flights from Toronto are about 2x more expensive than what I can get myself( Celebrity $6000+ vs myself $3000+ for business class). How much and how to arrange for private transfer from Bologna or does Celebrity offer a transfer from Bologna airport to the Ravenna cruiseport? Disembarkations seems to be less of a problem since I read Celebrity does offer shuttles to both airports Thanks

Hi we are going to ISTanbul in 2024 January, arriving in a cruiseship and wants to explore Istanbul for 2 days. Would there be long lines at the usual sites like Hagia Sophia, The Blue Mosque etc. in the colder month of January? Can a guide help u "skip the line" if there is such a thing?Thanks

https://www.advantour.com/silkroad/dyeing-of-silk-fabrics.htm The main natural red dye in ancient China was the substance received from madder root. By the end of Han epoch Chinese also used safflower to obtain red fabrics. It came to China as a result of contacts with the West. Jinzi fruits were used for getting yellow color; ochre – for dark red, mineral dye baionma or xuanjun were needed for white. By the Qing Dynasty (1616-1912), there were more than ten kinds of dyes used to dye textiles. The most frequently used dyes were safflower, sappanwood, bud of pagoda tree, amur cork, turmeric, indigo, gallnut and top of oak tree fruit. Among them, pagoda tree and amur cork are special East Asian plant dyestuffs.

I want to book a cruise to the Eastern Mediterranean 2023 or 2024. One family member resides in the UK and the cruise fare includes airfares seemingly not as a promotion but regular fares seems to always include air. The other member resides in Canada. where for the same cruise they are offering reduced airfares only. My Canadian TA says she cant book the UK fare.How will this situation be handled? Can one family pay the Can. rate and one family member pay the UK rate? Thanks .

I think the OP is talking about in the UK market, they seems to always include the airfare. In the US and Canada, airfare is excluded unless at promotional periods, then it is reduced or free airfare.