Ride-The-Waves Posted February 5, 2022 #26 Share Posted February 5, 2022 We have a cruising friend who'll never use a ship's tour because her sister was killed on a ship's excursion in South America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare csoud68 Posted April 15, 2022 #27 Share Posted April 15, 2022 On 2/5/2022 at 9:16 AM, Ride-The-Waves said: We have a cruising friend who'll never use a ship's tour because her sister was killed on a ship's excursion in South America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unrealHeather Posted July 10, 2022 #28 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 9/19/2019 at 12:24 AM, cameljockey said: I guess we've done about 14 cruises with various Cruise Lines. And I have to say we have never come back from any excursion saying that was worth the money. Look for safe alternatives, like Viator. Same same. I have generally been able to prebook my own private tour via Get My Guide, Klook or Viator, sometimes Trip Advisor. I think you should book with the ship if you can't find any alternative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markanddonna Posted July 11, 2022 #29 Share Posted July 11, 2022 On 7/10/2022 at 7:09 AM, unrealHeather said: Same same. I have generally been able to prebook my own private tour via Get My Guide, Klook or Viator, sometimes Trip Advisor. I think you should book with the ship if you can't find any alternative. You aren't truly booking a private tour with those companies. You are booking with a middle- man. With a little research, you can usually find the private operator they contract with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unrealHeather Posted July 11, 2022 #30 Share Posted July 11, 2022 19 minutes ago, Markanddonna said: You aren't truly booking a private tour with those companies. You are booking with a middle- man. With a little research, you can usually find the private operator they contract with. By private tour I mean my own tour as opposed to a tour bus with 50-100 other people. I get your point that I am paying an aggregator but it's still a useful service that has helped me find tours at 25% of the cost of a cruise line and with smaller groups so we can accomplish more sight seeing during the short time available. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVILady Posted November 3, 2022 #31 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Traveling solo on the 2023 World Cruise with Costa I have done a lot of research concerning all the ports and decided my best bet will be ship-excursions. Costa's excursions are reasonable priced and I was able to book a package called "My Exploration" which is one full day and 2 half-day excursions and any additional excursions are discounted 25 %. I could not see Viator or Tripadvisor excursions any more reasonably priced and with doing the ship-excursions I know they will wait for me and if for any reason the ship is last minute not docking at the port, I am not paying for an excursion I will not be able to take. Just recently had taken all excursions with MSC besides one where we did a private tour but just because we were able to make more stops but the price was higher then the ships-excursions and in Corfu we just took the shuttle to town and walked. I usually want to see and experience a lot so the excursions I am taking are not just a trip to a beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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