Teachmother3

This is exactly why I found Cruise Critic and you! This itinerary is an amazing overview of much of the Mediterranean but SO Port intensive- I was truly overwhelmed what to do. ENJOY the voyage! The ship info and pics are great and enough for now. Thank you , again for all you are sharing as you have time.

You are so sweet, Sugar Magnolia! THANK you for taking your time to help me! I guess I saw the pictures of the one hotel (I had read the rest the day before and forgot what you had shared. I will download the CruiseMapper app. This is SO helpful. This will only be my husband and my 2nd cruise (Alaska last year on Sapphire Princess with 9 very experienced cruising couples- I just had to follow their plans. ; ) So glad kenny from our Roll Call shared your ... whatever this is called- blog,? forum?- I am new to Cruise Critic, too. BTW- LOVED ALASKA and cruising is fun!

Thank you so much for all of this! You are really helping me feel better prepared so we can enjoy our time on the ship in July! Your info on the train to take from Venice is so helpful as are your pictures! I do have a question about how far you said the port was from your hotel- from what I can see, your hotel is right in front of the port- was it not? We are planning to stay in a hotel that is a few streets or or another that is even farther back from Savoia Excelsior Palace Trieste... and was considering upgrading to be even closer and the hotel seems really nice but $100 more, I'm not sure we need to do that. Also- did you do any tours or sightseeing in Trieste, Split and/or Dubrovnik that you recommend? Specifically tour companies you highly recommend or do any on your own? Thanks

Excited to follow your travels on the Escape. We are doing same trip in beginning of July. Still trying to figure out what excursions at many of the ports. I look forward to seeing what you do and how you like it at each port. Thank you for sharing!