NCL Rome Excursion question

[kolson66]

Hello 

 

I want to book a Vatican early access tour that has a meeting point in Rome at 8 am. Through Vistor. Is this doable?  Thanks. Karyn. 

[CruiserBruce]

You realize your ship docks 75 minutes drive away?

 

I assume you mean Viator. Viator is a broker, they don't provide the service. They simply take your money and seek a low bid contractor locally. The plus- low prices. The bad- hard to get customer service when needed- a problem we had. On the Ports board (a good place for your research), there are stories of tour providers with poor English skills. Private transfers that turned into shared rides with delayed travel times.

 

If you look on the Ports boards, you will see many, like us, who prefer to deal directly with tour vendors.

[griffy116]

We booked private tours. There were six of us. We booked directly with the vendors, after carefully researching them here on cruise critic and Trip Adviser for reliability and service. They picked us up at the ports, got us out of there quickly and ahead of the large groups boarding the cruise ship buses. We had advance entry through them and it worked out great. We used Rome in Limos and we have also used Bob's Limo Service, during different cruises. Both were GREAT. Since there were six of us, it worked out cheaper for us and we got to see twice as much, as we weren't waiting on anyone else and we weren't catering to anyone's schedule but our own.