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Flying anywhere today is a lottery, that is why we are flying to Rome 5 days before sailing. The other variant is hotel prices, I always book early and when I booked the rate was €300 per day about average for a 4/5 star city centre hotel such as the Westin. The rate is now over €850 per night. Very glad I booked when I did. we have a cruise booked in Feb next year and it was cheaper to book another sailing (Reflection 7 nights) with the elevate package in Aqua than book the hotel we usually stay at in Sarasota after our cruise.

@bluwes Like you we have had BA flights changed 3 times since we booked them. One time they put us on a Manchester to Heathrow flight that landed 10 minutes after the flight to Rome had departed. 2 weeks ago the cancelled our Heathrow to Rome leg completely with no alternative given. We have lost faith in BA we feel they cannot be trusted. We had our flight from Manchester to Heathrow cancelled with 2 hrs notice, luckily we were able to hire a car and drive to the airport for our flight the next day. We sail from Rome on the Reflection in September and have booked with Lufthansa from Liverpool airport. The connection is via Frankfurt and as it is a new route business class fare was really good, Liverpool although not as big as Manchester, is OK to travel to/from. really enjoying the review

Many thanks booked it 👍