TheRobinsons

Fair point.

My daughter is 15. She’s not great at engaging with other teenagers. The joys of being an only child I guess!

That is totally FORMAL to me

Hey, so I noticed that two of the nights are noted as Formal - put on your black tie and cocktail dresses. Is this compulsory, as I do not wear dresses at all, not casual, not cocktail, I just about wore a wedding dress. Would a pair of chino shorts and a button up shirt be ok?

Thank you all so much this is all really helpful

How much spending money does one actually need on a one week cruise (Greek Isles). Drinks and Foods are already all paid for. General Ball Park?

THEY CHANGED THE ITINERARY AGAIN..... Departing at 19:00 instead of 17:00 (coulda saved myself some money and flew in on the Sunday if we had known this sooner) No longer going to Mykonos and its Athens now, and CROATIA IS 8:00-17:00 instead of 07:00 - 16:00

We are just gonna get the train and stay in Ravenna on the Saturday night in a wee hotel, train is only one hour and no changes which is great How many of you are there? I will be using trainline to look for tickets, they've never let me down

Our original cruise has been cancelled so now we will go on this one: WILL BE FLYING INTO BOLOGNA, which makes much more sense and is only one hour / one train from Ravenna Venice (Ravenna), Italy Departs At 17:00 Split, Croatia From 07:00 - 16:00 Cruising Day At Sea Mykonos, Greece TENDERED 07:00 - 20:00 Santorini, Greece TENDERED 07:00 - 19:00 Olympia (Katakolon), Greece From 09:30 - 20:00 Cruising Day At Sea Venice (Ravenna), Italy Arrives 06:00

Our Dr Smith is currently Royal Caribbean as a company lol.... Wish I was going on a space trip at this point lol.

So they haven't fully protected the price, we are unable to get my time dining now and are stuck with 6pm, this just feels like a disaster of a first experience with Royal Caribbean. They have cancelled off all our special black friday deals we got on our drinks, so thats gonna cost more now, and to be honest, as the supposed best cruiseline in the world, this is a bad experience for me so far.

Explorer on 9th July from Ravenna has been cancelled, so now we have choices to make, the dates were perfect for us. We cannot go any later than this as I have work commitments that I simply cannot get out of The itinerary was what we were looking forward to the most. Options they offered: Option 1: Re-book one of the following 2023 7-Night itineraries onboard Explorer of the Seas sailing to: Split, Croatia | Mykonos, Greece | Santorini, Greece | and Olympia (Katakolon), Greece on July 2nd (NOT REALLY THE ITINERARY WE WANTED BUT SIMILAR) Split, Croatia | Mykonos, Greece | Santorini, Greece | and Dubrovnik, Croatia on July 16th (I CANNOT MOVE TO THIS DUE TO WORK COMMITMENTS) Kotor, Montenegro | Corfu, Greece | Athens (Piraeus), Greece | Mykonos, Greece | and Argostoli, Greece on July 23rd (THIS ONE IS THE SAME ITINERARY AS WHAT WERE MEANT TO HAVE, BUT I CANNOT MOVE TO THIS DUE TO WORK COMMITMENTS) Option 2: Re-book any other Royal Caribbean International sailing - This will prob cost more money than we can kind of afford to change to Option 3: If you can’t find a new itinerary that works for you and choose to cancel, we’ll be sad to see you go. - We dont get to do the holiday we wanted. I am just sad that this has happened, will probably go for option one as its the only dates that really suit. Someone comfort me lol

This one is cancelled. Royal Carribean have cancelled the ship.

They have this 11:15 on the AIR2SEA for London and the same time to JFK also (these are from Venice) To Dublin they have a 12:15 - so if my flight is at 12:50 from a closer airport, that should be ok too?

We are travelling by train from Rome to Ravenna €90 total for us, and then from Ravenna to Bologna Airport as its only €40 total for the three of us, I dont think we could get better than that, I will check the air to sea as you say for the earliest flight

Ok cool, thank you so much, we cant get air2sea as they don't do from Belfast, so booking our own little trip to Rome on the way there (travelling to Ravenna the day before the cruise) and Bologna is the closest for on the way home

Oh so you can actually choose? I am not sure how it works etc, first timers

At the end of the cruise, how quick are you usually off the ship? It says the ship arrives to Ravenna at 06:00 I am trying to plan our flight back home, my question is, can we make a flight at 12:50, its one hour or so travel from Ravenna to Bologna

It wasnt by any means to blame cruising, this is our first time, and I think, because it says Venice, you think ahh yeah that would probably be 20/30 minutes to port, but its 2 hours. So I just kinda was thinking from that perspective. The other 'simples' i talk about, are the upsells of foods and drinks etc, it took a while to figure out for us that you dont HAVE to do this, you can Pay as You go etc.

Oh this is a good idea, do you know is there much difference with Milan, Ryan Air offer direct flights to Milan, Venice or Bologna are definite connecting flights for us. Also, I couldnt find any infomation anywhere regarding transfers to/from airports, maybe that will come in time?

They dont seem to do airfare from Belfast I will check Dublin.

I am totally in a flap about this, we don't even go until July 2023, these costs for transfers by any of the ways mentioned are astronomical. Ravenna appears to be the most out of the way port I have ever seen, with no airports nearby at all. It is so unfortunate that cruising is not as simple as it first appears. Is not as cost effective as it first appears and its making me totally anxiety ridden at the thoughts. EEEEEPPPPP

Any recommendations for the following locations? KOTOR, MONTENEGRO CORFU, GREECE ATHENS (PIRAEUS), GREECE MYKONOS, GREECE ARGOSTOLI, GREECE We have never been to any of these places, should we self explore, shore excursion, stay on the boat etc?

Yeah we are Ravenna > Kotor > Corfu > Athens > Mykonos > Argostoli > Ravenna

Does cash have to be in dollars? Awesome, thank you so much. I think we will book a 'RC Excusrion' for Athens, as it is further away than the port, but i think everywhere else stops in a little town, or near to one.