NYRailfan

Am I understanding that there is NO alcohol package available on this ship; but I also cannot find any packages for non-alcoholic drinks except the 4 bottled water packages. Do you have to pay for each and every non-alcoholic drink as well? Or are they included? I can't find any information.

No Coke - Pepsi!

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Are individual drink prices absurd? Can you get drinks at meals or in the buffet without a package?

Are they serious with the prices on the beverage packages? I understand the alcohol ones being high, but if you want more than soda for your non-alcoholic drinks, for my family of 3 it's going to be nearly $1000, and only one member of my family drinks soda! Do the prices on these drop as the sail date gets closer, or if they offer some kind of special, even if you've already booked, will they honor it?

Total travel time is at least two hours by train which is more than twice as long as it would take by taxi.

 

Train fare is 11 Euro vs. a fixed taxi fare of 120 Euro.

 

Rome taxi fares here: http://www.comune.roma.it/PCR/resources/cms/documents/tariffario_taxi_luglio_2012.pdf

Do you normally tip people who help you in Italy? I was told that it's not normal in Europe to tip.

Do you know if the signs are in English as well as Italian? I only speak English (my wife speaks Russian) and I know a few words of Italian, but not nearly enough to ask for help.

The train is an option but you need to be fully comfortable dealing with your luggage.

 

• Purchase your ticket at the airport train station, validate the ticket by stamping it in one of the machines on the platform
  
• Board an FL1 train (Orte/Fara Sabina)
  
• Exit the FL1 train at Roma Trastevere (the 7th stop)
  
• Change trains at Trastevere to an FL5 train to Civitavecchia
  
• Exit the FL5 train at Civitavecchia (the number of stops varies by train - listen for Marina di Cerveteri and San Marinella, the last two stops before Civitavecchia)
  
• Walk from the train station to the port (four-tenths of a mile), where a port shuttle bus will take you to your ship
  

Note that at Civitavecchia you will need to climb down a flight of stairs and back up the other side if your train arrives at any track other than the first one. There are no elevators at this station.

 

The train portion of this trip takes about an hour and a half and there are two departures each hour from the airport.

 

I would assume one hour after landing before you are leaving the airport and heading to the train station, so you should be able to make either the 11:42 or the 12:12 train, which puts in you in Civitavecchia at either 1:13 or 2 PM. The walk to the shuttle bus at the port will take another 10 - 15 minutes.

 

 

Map of the regional train lines can be found here: http://atac.roma.it/files/doc.asp?r=4

Is this faster/cheaper than a taxi?

I'm sailing from Rome in July of this year; it was recommended that we use the train from the airport to the ship. Is this a good idea? Our flight lands at 10:45 the morning we depart. Is customs/security bad at FCO? This is my first international trip in 10 years.