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4       Plan your days to battle travel        Don’t plan multiple long, extensive port


                        fatigue.
                                                               days in a row.  If you are doing a full whirl-
                        There are some days on your Med-
                                                               wind tour of Rome don’t plan the full
                        iterranean cruise that you will want
                 to make the most of every single moment       whirl-wind tour of Florence the next day.
                 you are in port.                              Make sure you have enough days to just
                                                               get off the ship and wander around the
                 These days will be long, probably hot, and    city.
                 most likely exhausting.


                5       Research the ports you need a          you if you are late coming back from a


                                                               shore excursion you booked with them.
                        shore excursion and the ones
                        you don’t.
                        Some ports will be easy to walk off
                 the ship and explore.  Some just need a       Rome has a lot of traffic and is an hour
                                                               from the port.  I highly recommend doing
                 quick ride into town.  But book an excur-     a ship excursion there.  But in other ports
                 sion in Rome.                                 you will dock right next to the city and
                                                               you can walk or just take a quick transport
                 Remember for pretty much all cruise lines     into town.
                 –  they  guarantee  they  hold  the  ship  for

















































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