mick rivers Posted January 10, 2019 #1 Share Posted January 10, 2019 My brother and I are first time cruisers, we have booked 7 day cruise on MSC Meraviglia from Genoa, we are novices and are looking for any information as to independent onshore excursion operators, most especially from Civitavecchia/Rome, Barcelona, Marseille, what criteria we should follow, any warnings in booking one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mapleleaves Posted January 10, 2019 #2 Share Posted January 10, 2019 If you look thru the first several pages of each forum, you'll find all the popular vendors used at each port. I'm doing a W Med cruise in Sept and have found over a dozen companies thru these forums ..... use the search tool to find old trip reports ( "w med review" or 'w med report' ), or go to MSC forum and look at Meraviglia threads. I also bought Rick Steves book on Med Cruise ports, and borrowed a few travel books from the library. A little research will make you more comfortable about excursion choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick rivers Posted January 10, 2019 Author #3 Share Posted January 10, 2019 2 hours ago, mapleleaves said: If you look thru the first several pages of each forum, you'll find all the popular vendors used at each port. I'm doing a W Med cruise in Sept and have found over a dozen companies thru these forums ..... use the search tool to find old trip reports ( "w med review" or 'w med report' ), or go to MSC forum and look at Meraviglia threads. I also bought Rick Steves book on Med Cruise ports, and borrowed a few travel books from the library. A little research will make you more comfortable about excursion choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick rivers Posted January 10, 2019 Author #4 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Thanks so much will follow your lead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mapleleaves Posted January 10, 2019 #5 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Here are past threads for your ship. Just skim thru the titles and look for W Med. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/search/?q=meraviglia&type=forums_topic&nodes=49&sortby=newest&search_and_or=or&search_in=titles&page=1 Another suggestion is to join your ships Roll Call. Many of your fellow travellers will be looking for tour suggestions whether it be DIY or a group. Or sometimes they have found a great private excursion but need 2 or 3 more people to join them to keep the cost down or they want to join a small group excursion https://italytours.eu/rome-tours-civitavecchia/best-of-rome-full-day/ For Rome I couldn't find the itinerary I wanted for but in reading trip reports learned it was easy enough to take the train and DIY. And in Naples I found a vendor who will let us customize one of their 8 hr tours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare fabnfortysomething Posted January 10, 2019 #6 Share Posted January 10, 2019 just check total times in port MSC and some other cruiselines tend to have shorter times in port so may not have as long to sightsee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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