Introduction We flew into Barcelona on November 21, 2009 and sailed Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas through the Mediterranean from November 22-29, 2009. This was our third cruise but first cruise with Royal Caribbean. Previously, we have been on Disney cruises so you’ll see me compare the two lines a lot in the Voyager […]
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On Saturday, November 28, 2009, we were supposed to sail into Marseille, France but the captain informed us the night before that our ship was being diverted to Toulon instead because of dock worker strikes. This caused quite a short panic for us since our SSK Dreamliner driver was supposed to pick us up in
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On Friday, November 27, 2009, we pulled into Villefranche, France. We booked a private van with SSK Dreamliner. Unlike our tours in Italy, SSK Dreamliner is more of a chauffeur service and less of a structured tour company so it was really up to us to research what we wanted to see and let our
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Voyager of the Seas pulled into Livorno, Italy on Thursday, November 26, 2009. We had another private tour booked with RomeInLimo. We shared this tour with Michael & Colleen, Stacie & Harry, and our new cruise buddies Steven & Melissa. Unlike the Rome tour, we wanted to customize this tour for our tastes. The afternoon
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Sunrise over Civitavecchia On Wednesday, November 25, 2009, we arrived in Civitavecchia, Italy. We booked a tour of Rome with Rome in Limo, which was HIGHLY recommended on Cruise Critic. Our tour was organized through our Cruise Critic roll call and consisted of Michael & Colleen, Michael’s parents, Michael & Lucy, and us. I had
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On Tuesday, November 24, 2010, we arrived at our first port of call, Naples, Italy. This was the only port where we booked a Royal Caribbean-sponsored excursion called Capri, Sorrento, & Pompeii. I really wanted to visit all three of these places and couldn’t find a private tour that did all three. I also decided
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Our trip began on Saturday, November 21, 2009 with our American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to Madrid Barajas International Airport being 2 hours delayed so we missed our connecting flight to Barcelona and were rebooked to a flight that left 6 hours later. We spent 5 hours waiting for our flight at the
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