Thread: Europe

Hi all,
We are taking a cruise to Europe in May. Does anyone know how to find fellow travelers who want to share private tour cars. We are taking a pre Rome for 2 days and a post Athens for 3 days. Most all the tours are priced per car and not per person. We want to find another couple who might want to share an all day private car. and share transfers. Thanks - new at this

Hi Mallee - the easiest way to get in contact with fellow cruisers is to start or join a Roll-Call for your sailing.
If you go to the main cruise lines forums at "Sun Deck", on the main page here, you will see a link by each cruise line called " ........Roll Call" click on the link and see if there is a Roll Call thread started for your cruise. If not you can start one yourself.

I see you are knew to CLF, a warm welcome to you. You may also go to the Introduce Yourself section and say Hi & Hello to the other great members.

If you have any questions please dont hasitate to to ask

Which ship are you sailing on and whats the intinerary???

Hey Mallee! I echo Lars' welcome to our friendly cruise community!

Lars has given you excellent advice! I hope some of our folks will be sailing with you and that you can arrange your tours.

Thank you! I so appreciate your help. We are taking the Royal Princess in May leaving From Rome/Civitavecchia to Sorrento taking the over night overland at Alexandria Egypt re-boarding in Port Said thne 2 stops in Israel then to Kusadasi, Patmos, Sanotina, and finishing in Athens with a 3 day post.

I'm brand new at this I will for sure try the Sun Deck thing.

Anyone have any advice for our ports?

Originally Posted by mallee

Thank you! I so appreciate your help. We are taking the Royal Princess in May leaving From Rome/Civitavecchia to Sorrento taking the over night overland at Alexandria Egypt re-boarding in Port Said thne 2 stops in Israel then to Kusadasi, Patmos, Sanotina, and finishing in Athens with a 3 day post.

I'm brand new at this I will for sure try the Sun Deck thing.

Anyone have any advice for our ports?

Hi mallee Welcome to CLF!

Regarding your ports:

Kusadasi, definitely Ephesus!

Patmos, The Monastery of St. Johns if you're not visiting on Sunday, if you are there will be religious services in the small Monastery and if you're on a tour, they'll walk you right through the middle of them

Athens, definitely the Acropolis and since you'll be there at night on your 3 day post cruise, make sure to wander past to see it lit up at night, beautiful! Athens also has a wonderful Metro, very easy to use and can save you quite a bit of time getting from point A to B and they sell day passes for it.

I haven't been to the other ports you've listed, but I'll be stopping at Rome for a day in November on our Med cruise

Here are a couple links:

Kusadasi/Ephesus Ephesus - Ancient city of Ephesus - Ephesus Turkey

Patmos, Monastery of St. John
Monastery of St. John - Patmos, Greece

Mallee, see if this website helps you.
Paul

Welcome to ShoreTrips® - Your Guide to Shore Excursions

Originally Posted by cruise4me

Mallee, see if this website helps you.
Paul

Welcome to ShoreTrips® - Your Guide to Shore Excursions

Thanks for the link! I did check them out earlier and really really wanted to book our overland in Egypt with them becasuse they were about $300 per person less than Princess shore excursions for the exact itinerary but they would not guarantee getting us back to the ship on time!! eek! We are too chicken for that.

Thanks so much for the help though!

I always book with the ship for that reason, I don't want to be left behind. I have always been pleased with Princess tours and it they are a little bit more, that's ok with me.
You are taking a cruise I want to take, but my friend wants to do the British Isles next so we will do that one first.
We just got back from a Med cruise. I would also recommend the Acropolis, it was awesome. I think my favorite was Ephesus out of Kusadasi. That city is in really good shape for ancient ruins. It was just amazing, I loved every minute of being there.

In Kusadasi you have to see Efesus, also the house of Virgin Mary.

Would you be interested in setting up your own private tour in Alexandria???
We have booked a private tour for our visit in November 2009.
I will PM you the email address to a private tour company in Alexandria.

If you check out the Mediterranean forum at "cruise places" you will find alot of information about Rome.
If you click on my link in my profile you will get to my trip report where I have written about Rome and Sorrento.