Wednesday, June 6, 2012

MORE ON SHORE EXCURSIONS FROM FROMMER

Recently we posted some tips on shore excursions. Here's some more useful information to pass along, from travel expert Arthur Frommer, writing in his blog on the topic, "How Necessary Are Those Cruiseship-Organized Port Tours?":

"I receive more questions on port excursions than on any other topic. Learning the prices of those motorcoach tours sold by the cruiselines, and multiplying the cost by all the ports visited, most people react with anguish to the resulting total cost. And recently, one reader asked me to assess the options in six different cities that would be visited on a Mediterranean cruise scheduled for later this summer: Nice, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Naples, Venice and Split. The idea of touring in a motorcoach didn't appeal, he wrote. Can't he simply tour these places on his own? Here's how I responded:"

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