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We had a 10:03 flight to Lisbon when we disembarked so 11 should be ok. You definitely need to self-disembark and carry your own luggage off the ship. You usually can't do a ship port transfer unless your flight leaves after a certain time - I think it's normally noon. Others more versed with this information can probably better answer this question.

Head over to the Spain Ports of call section here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/465-spain-and-portugal-ports/ Tons of information and I'm sure you'll have fun for hours reading and researching the many posts there.

I am cruising with friends on Saturday. We're flying to MIA. They are coming from CT and I am flying from CLT. On the way home since they didn't have a direct flight, they choose one with a layover in Charlotte so we could all fly home together. American Airlines has changed their flight 3x since we booked in Oct - original flight home was at 1:40....and now is at 10:03. Since my friends booked a "basic fare" when they called they said they were not allowed to change their flights even though American Airlines is the one who has now changed the flight times 3x! So, we're stuck with 10:03 not only because they have a Basic Fare, but bc the next flight to CLT isn't until 1-something and they would miss their connection home which is at 2:49. I could switch since I am in main cabin but we'll just stay together. 🤗 The good news is that someone posted on another site that they were off Icon at 6:05am and at their gate by 7:15 for their 11-something flight with no issues. So hopefully when we self-disembark, we'll be fine too! That said, if you CAN take a later flight, I would. Like others have said, not worth the stress of rushing to the airport.

I have not but am using them for this tour in Sept. I used them for 4 tours back in 2019. Not sure if it's true for all tours but on the one tour where we had a larger group (Pompeii and Amalfi Coast), they actually brought like a small bus. All the others were nice, comfortable vans. Not one was really crowded. Maybe others can chime in.

Did you mean May 17th? I didn't see any for June but did see one time slot left for May 17th. We don't go until September but once I know for sure when they release tickets - forgot to check right at 6pm EST - I'll set up a reminder on my calendar.

Thank you so much. Very helpful! I will save those links. We're staying in a VRBO so I can send them a message and see if they can hold our luggage a bit for us. We still haven't decided if we're gonna take a train or private transport to the port.

@marazul So am I going to the right place for the guided tickets - cause it's always showing sold out. I'll check at 6pm EST and see if tickets for the 17th show up. https://ticketing.colosseo.it/en/eventi/full-experience-sotterranei-e-arena-visita-guidata/ Having a hard time find the non-guided underground tickets - their website is a bit confusing to me with all their different ticket options. As a side note, this past weekend I was watching a History Channel special on The Dormus Area and thought that would be neat to tour too....except it seems tickets are only available Fri, Sat and Sun when we are not available. Well, maybe we could do Friday morning before we head to the port assuming we could find a place to hold our luggage. 🙂

Been checking their new (and old and it sometimes throws you back to the old one) website to try and get an idea as to what time of day (or night here in the US) they add tickets for the new day. Very much interested in trying to get an underground tour of the Colosseum (but also want to see Palatine Hill as well) and it seems it's always sold out. Everything is overpriced on Viator and other websites and even when you read reviews it seems they can switch up the tours and sometimes you don't even make it to the underground areas and people are waiting on refunds, etc. Are all these vendors scooping up that tickets and that's what's making it more difficult for individuals to get tickets?

Probably not. 😢

Also staying at Intercontinental....any recommendations for breakfast the morning of embarkation?

Same for me. Our last person just completed check-in and I went to log in to the app to download their Set Sail pass to my apple wallet and it prompted me to log in. Said my password was wrong. Tried it again. No go. Went to my laptop - again, no go. Double checked my password with the "show" option to make sure it was right...down to 6 attempts now and I know I have the correct password.

Just want to confirm...if there are three of us but we don't plan to use internet that much, as long as one of us are only logged on at a time, we can share a one-device package (and we each can use our own phones - we don't have the share the same device)?

I do - thank you. It's still a great price to upgrade considering we only paid $3300 total for all three of us for an ocean view balcony.

Thank you - for what we originally paid for our balcony, I think this would be an amazing upgrade and would jump on it if we were splitting the cost. But knowing I'd be paying it all myself is what is holding me back.... Then again, you only turn 50 once......and it is Icon......then again, I do have a European cruise in September and could use that money there..... decisions, decisions....

I am tempted to bid on the junior sunset suite for our 5/4 sailing....but I'd have to fork out the whole amount as the friends I am going with are satisfied with our balcony. Trying to talk myself out of it... Also haven't ever been offered a chance to upgrade before. Do they ever accept anything below the minimum?