To see what we did on a Carnival Dream Mediterranean cruise in 2009 see here
Carnival Magic Inaugural Venice Cruise May 1st Homepage is here
Carnival Magic Inaugural Barcelona Cruise May 10th Homepage is here
HeinBloed has some good information on Civitavecchia and Rome: http://www.heinbloed-on-tour.de/
Me thinks this is Ken's Birthday...
A great Vatican map: http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/vaticancity-map.htm
and a related one I like: http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Pics/Maps/Vatican-area-map.jpg
Tom's Port Guide, Rome: http://www.tomsportguides.com/Rome-04-10-2011.pdf
Day 7
Bettye's tour here.
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Civitavecchia, Rome*
Meet @ 7:30 a.m. Deck 3 Lobby Bar (near piano)
Tour begins at 8:00 a.m. |
Nine hour tour from Civitavecchia Port (Mary) www.drivearounditaly.com Venice Square with "The Wedding Cake", Roman Forum, Colosseum, Circus Maximus, Capitoline Hill, Palatine Hill, Baths of Caracalla. Back to the center of Rome, stop for a visit inside the Pantheon, Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain. Grab a quick lunch (not included in price) and shopping. The Vatican City & Museum, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica; Castel Saint’Angelo. For Vatican licensed guide for a private 2 hour tour additional cost of Euro 150 (included). Driver available for 2 extra hours @ 40€ per hour if we want more time. Bettye & Jimmie; Bill & Elizabeth; Nancy & Mark, Becki & Scott - Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill (€12 - combo ticket all 3); Castel Saint Angelo €7; Baths of Caracalla €6; Vatican - Sistine Chapel & St. Peter’s Basilica €19 (reserved tickets); Capitoline Hill & Pantheon – Free (all included in price) |
Tour = 530€
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We may not have time to see everything on this list at great lengths of time, but we’re certainly going to try to at least get a photo stop. Pursuant to prior e-mails we have all agreed that we will not do a sit down lunch at a restaurant, but grab a quick bite and move on to our next stop to save time and $$$$.
At the suggestion of one of our participants I have asked Mary about extending our tour if we chose to and she has arranged for our driver to extend the tour for two additional hours at a cost of 40€ per hour. If everyone in our group decides we’d like to stay longer (1 or 2 hours) and don’t mind splitting the additional cost, Jimmie and I are flexible, whatever the majority wants to do, we will do. The ship doesn’t leave port until late anyway, so this might work out well for all of us.
All of our entrance tickets are included in our tour price (Euro 129). Here’s how the ticket purchases will work:
Colosseum, Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum is a combined ticket Euro 12, and our driver will purchase the tickets for us;
Vatican (Sistine Chapel & St Peter’s Basilica) Euro 19 (we have a reservation) and our guide will purchase these tickets for us.
Admission to the other places are listed on the itinerary I sent you last week and we’ll just purchase those when we arrive at those sites.
Also, everyone in our group is in agreement with extending the trip for one or two hours if we decide to stay longer.
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