Loved our cabin with absolutely the best views. Loved that the balcony only had a neighbor on one side and the other side the neighboring balcony is set back so it feels a bit more private. We said it was like watching National Georgraphic magazine from our balcony. The bed was amazing and my husband enjoyed the in-room movies and documentaries. We had plenty of space for our things and could have brought more.

EXC Tour guide was very an expert on the port and very passionate about Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. This was an excursion that we took to get a taste of the region and we really loved it. Our tour guide made this tour great for all of us. The town is beautiful with a great history. It is a place to people watch and be seen. It is a university town and you will see many younge people in the area.

We took the EXC Tour "Taste of the Riveria" which visited Eze first and then Nice, with a visit to the oldest wine academy in the south of france.

The coastline from Monte Carlo into France is BREATHTAKING! We loved climbing the trail to the top of Eze and seeing the view. This excursion should not be taken if you have mobility issues. 

Our favorite part of the tour was the wine academy in Nice!! The wine "teacher" was so passionate and it was contagious. This was one the highlights of our trip!!! So glad we changed our excursion from "Nice and Eze" to "Taste of the Riviera" So worth it!

We bought a bottle to bring on board and, bascause this was a HAL tour, did not have to pay the corkage fee if consumed within our cabin and we did so on our veranda.

If you go and watch the Rick Steve's Europe episode of Florence - this was almost exactily what we did on our EXC tour "Florence: Statue of David and the Uffizi Museum" This tour hit all of the highlights of Florence and included lunch as a local restaurant with wine. The wine was chianti - which I'm not a fan of, but the food was good. It was a very busy day and a very unforgettable day. We saw it all!

We took the EXC tour "Best of Rome" which was a highlight of our cruise. Splurg and do it. Don't waste time looking for maps, waiting in lines or looking for transport! We went to the Trevi fountain in the morning and it was not that crowded, which we appreciated. We then went to the colloseum - which was a pinch me moment. Our tour guide was a history expert and a teacher - he was absolutely amazing!! Not just a tour guide reading from cards but someone who really knows everything there is to know about the subject matter!! We had lunch as an underground restaurant near the colloseum and this was a highlight of our trip - ammmmazing lasagna and wine. LOVED IT. The wine was flowing! We then went to the Vatican City and saw St. Peter's Basilica! We would like to go back and explore more of the vatican city. Not enough time for everything but we squeezed in everything that we could in one day!!

We did the full EXC tour of Capri with a boat transer to Capri - a bus ride on the mama mia highway to the top of Anacapri, back down to Capritown for lunch at a beautiful restaurant overlooking the bay and had such an amazing lunch relaxing and drinking wine with new friends. Then had free time to explore and look at the amazing views and take pictures. The took the funicular back down to the dock area to go back to the ship. We loved it! We were going to do this on our own and

Breathtaking port where you are surrounded by mountains.

Kotor

Walked the city walls. Dubrovnik is a hot spot right now for tourism so expect crowds.

Dubrovnik

We went on our own and got a museum city pass. You can realy wander and get lost. We splurged and did the gondola. We are glad that we did. It is $80 before 7 pm and then $100 after 7 pm - we did ours at 6:15 pm so we got the less expensive rate and it wasn't crowded. We agreed after our trip that we are glad that we did it because we probably would have regretted not doing it after we left. No regrets!

Venice

We took that EXC tour Castelmola and Taromina with Lunch and it was amazing! Views were incredible. Tour guide was fantastic! Lunch at a 5-star hotel overlooking the bay - the most beautiful views I've ever seen in my life. Unforgettable!

I know many people on Cruise Critic choose to take their own shore excursions, but I do have to say that EXC Tours absolutely MADE our time in port AMAZING!We were extremely happy that we booked through EXC tours because we did not have to stress about making it back to the ship on time – we could relax, enjoy and focus learning as much as we could about each port offered.

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