Excursion companies

Does anyone have experience of 3rd party excursion companies (cruisingexcursions.com et al)?

Are they any good, cheaper etc?

Doing TA on Britania in October.

Thanks

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We used cruising excursions when we were on Oceana last year and also a few years ago when travelling with RCI. Both times happy with the service and definitely cheaper than P & O.

We used a Rome On Your Own from Civitavecchia. 19 Euros instead of £601! Marvellous.

Hi Mark we are also on the Britannia transatlantic in October so would be interested in this information also :)

Does anyone have experience of 3rd party excursion companies (cruisingexcursions.com et al)?

Are they any good, cheaper etc?

 

Doing TA on Britania in October.

 

Thanks

 

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Hi Mark I have just realised that we were on the same TA cruise on Azura in October/November 2014. Did you do the beach trips arranged by Pat and Scott?

Hi Mark I have just realised that we were on the same TA cruise on Azura in October/November 2014. Did you do the beach trips arranged by Pat and Scott?

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Hi Mark

They were really. We were hoping they would be on this cruise again but they are not. We will probably just do our own thing in each port - we will see. So looking forward to this cruise - we loved it last time :)

Suggest you look at the Ports of Call section for more information for each stop.

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I have done quite a few private excursions. They haven't necessarily been cheaper but we have seen more in the same time and a small group is nicer to be with. Just make sure they carry insurance to get you back to the ship if you miss it (very rare) and also will refund you if the ship doesn't make port.

We used a Rome On Your Own from Civitavecchia. 19 Euros instead of £601! Marvellous.

19 euros instead of £601 are you sure.

19 euros instead of £601 are you sure.

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Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

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Yep, typo, sorry meant £60

We used cruising excursions in Muscat and India. Much cheaper than ship tours. Found them very good. Booked again for British Isles cruise.

Booked cruising excursions in Tenerife and Gran Canaria as they confirmed that they are happy to take folding wheelchairs, could not get a definitive answer from P and O.

Using Hercules tours in La Coruna, brilliant price and great reviews.

We will do our own thing and just wander in other ports.

Half the fun for me is the pre-cruise trawling the ports online to see what I can find. We are getting the train to Pisa from Livorno in April. Not been to Pisa and have already spent a week in Florence. I think the train fare is about 6 Euro and it takes about 25 minutes.

I have used http://www.viator.com in the USA for helicopter tours and they were backed by reliable local owner operators. You select the country, then town and can access the details of a multitude of diverse operations from tours and arrangements for a couple in a private car or similar for half a day right up to tours lasting a week.

Regards John

I too have found Viatours very good.