AlaskaGoer

Thanks.

Thank you. For a ride from the airport to the hotel, I booked through the service you recommended. I'll sort out the ride from the hotel to the pier once I sort out what or if we're gonna do something on Saturday morning.

Two out of the three were sold out for the dates I was looking for. However, I sent pictures of the third to the wife and she liked it. I booked it, thank you much!

Are Taxis easily accessible and fairly frequent? Other than walking where we can, I figured we might have to get a ride here and there.

I have not. AirBnbs are good for places I've been before (for me personally), but as we're they're only for 2 nights, I am trying to find something that is set in stone and doesn't have the possibility of having problems. Appreciate the advice tho.

Can I book the car service through the hotel that I choose or better to do it way ahead of time? I heard Uber is available? Looking to maybe 250 to 350 euro max a night. I found 'Crown Tours' that is about 3 hrs long of a tour. https://www.crowntours.com/colosseum-palatine-hill-and-roman-forum-tour?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0MexBhD3ARIsAEI3WHJ2BXKdO3l1Neb0yWB_yM3TthTBLDupbhyz6dOHr1PId3Hxs8vxmccaAkJfEALw_wcB

I booked this cruise years ago. Unfortunately I've hit a snag and I'm trying to get my head sorted out before I have anxiety attack. We booked everything through NCL except for the hotel stay (as we are coming in two days early). When I started calling back in January / February, they said they didn't have any spots available and to continue to call every week, of which I have. Well, now I'm kind of at ground zero and need to get hotels booked and sort out transportation. The NCL rep provided two hotels they use in Rome. (One is booked up, the other still has room). However, she recommended NOT staying in Rome but closer to the port because of traffic... which, kind of defeats the point of going two days early to explore Rome. Any help with this? How hard is it to arrange transportation from Rome to the pier? I've never been to Rome, so this is literally, all foreign to me. Are Taxis a plenty in Rome to get to and from the airport / around the city to the pier?

Good idea, thank you.

I booked this cruise years ago. Unfortunately I've hit a snag and I'm trying to get my head sorted out before I have anxiety attack. We booked everything through NCL except for the hotel stay (as we are coming in two days early). When I started calling back in January / February, they said they didn't have any spots available and to continue to call every week, of which I have. Well, now I'm kind of at ground zero and need to get hotels booked and sort out transportation. The NCL rep provided two hotels they use in Rome. (One is booked up, the other still has room). However, she recommended NOT staying in Rome but closer to the port because of traffic... which, kind of defeats the point of going two days early to explore Rome. Any help with this? How hard is it to arrange transportation from Rome to the pier? I've never been to Rome, so this is literally, all foreign to me. Are Taxis a plenty in Rome to get to and from the airport / around the city to the pier?

Yeah,its a bit odd. We have some of the other ports booked with stuff to do, but the earlier ones will be a bit of a free for all for us.

I'm going to call our cruise consultant this week. Other stops have plenty of excursions, but that one port has 0? Its like they're not sure if its going to be a port we visit and don't wan to provide any excursions just in case. Very odd.

I logged into NCL a week or so ago to plan out the excursions. Each port had a a good amount listed. When I checked today, one of the ports (Athens) has 0 listed. In the past,any excursion sold out was still listed but not removed. Is this the new normal? Thanks.

We were sitting in the WindJammer having B Fast watching the disembarking procedure. What the dock workers did to the luggage made me happy we did self assist to be honest.

We opted to hang out until as late as possible (we actually were kicked out of our room at 830 lol). The ship docked later than it was supposed to, but people who had luggage pick up times (ie, in the terminal ) between 800 and 830 weren't getting them until almost an hour later. Royal isn't necessarily at fault here, but as there are a lot of moving parts and I for one wouldn't want to be running for the terminal, I'd give myself as much time as possible.

As someone who just got off the Oasis yesterday... Give yourself as much time as possible. We did self assist and got in line at 835a. We didn't walk out of the Customs terminal until 9:55. The lines were crazy to get off, and one of the escalators broke creating a nightmare. The ones who had their luggage taken and put in the terminal at pre determined times still had to wait in line like the rest of us. Overall it was a mess, so just make sure you give yourself plenty of time to get off and get to the airport.

Good to know. I'm all about 1 stop shopping.

Thanks. I'll look and see where the restaurants are on the ship and B line it to them.

Good to know. Appreciate it.

Only unhappy with the non answer the CS provided and couldn't give any answer as to why (even when their website told us to call). If we were told it's booked, or the promo has ended, this thread would have never been made. 🙂

Please quote me where I said it's RCs fault that I couldn't book anything. You and others have stated such, but I have not. Even some posters have pointed out to others that I have never said RC was at fault for waiting to the last minute. The issue was never that. Thanks for the rest of your post.

Thank you!

The silver lining, if possible, is we don't want UDP. Just one or two nights.

100%. It is what it is. If it doesn't work out, no biggy.

Thank you. That's all I was upset about, the CS end.

Appreciate it, thanks!