MrsCookingyo

We used P K travel and were extremely happy that we did.  We were the only 2 with the driver and a licensed tour guide who was excellent.  It was a bit pricey as there were no others to sign up for the tour. We saw sights that were not in other tours. I would sign up now on their web sight  for the tour that you are interested in.  In Santorini, Greece we did the Santorini wine tour that was awesome.  It was a tour of 3 wineries.  There were 8 people total on the tour.  I stated to the other 6 people who were half  our age that I wish that what we learned that day we had learned 30  plus years ago. The sommelier was phenomenal.  We did the R C tour in Rome of the Vatican etc. which was also  pricey but worth every penny.   In Barcelona were we stayed before and after the cruise we did the Full day tour and Montserant.  Excellent tour.  In Ephesus, Turkey we did the R C tour that takes you to the house of the Virgin Mary.  Another great tour by R C.   In Malta the R C tour that included Medina glass works.  Beautiful glass work. We bought some and had it shipped.   The two private tours were excellent and in the future we will use more non ship tours.   No problem at all in Santorini with taking the gondolas up and down the mountain as we were the only ship in the harbor that day.  We checked repeatedly with the port schedule to make sure there were no other ships in port that  day so as to make the last tender back to the ship. It is a lot of walking up and down and cobblestone pavements on all of the tours.  We were fortunate not to gain any weight on a 12 day cruise due to all of the walking involved on those tours.   Personally I have had a total knee and hip replaced and said to the wife after the 2nd day of tours that I made it through those days and knew I would make it thru the rest of the days and did with no problems.  Yes it was the cruise of a lifetime and worth every penny.  

it does! I just called to check if the new promotion would save us a bit of money, but so far none have been better than the kids sail free we got since we have 3 kids in our  room... Well!! to my surprise I saved an extra 415$ (Canadian) on our cruise! bringing our total down to 3700$ (2800$ US) for a 9 day cruise in a family panoramic room for 5 people!!
 
Beyond happy right now!

Having a licensed tour guide is invaluable at best.  More so having a driver who lives there and drives tours daily for a living is worth the cost of this tour alone.    P K Travel is the # 2 tour company in Greece so I think we made a good choice.  

Even though it's not weather related ....
 
This morning was a good example as to why you should fly in a day early if possible ...
 
In cased you missed it this morning, there was a power outage that affected Miami & Ft. Lauderdale causing significant delays.
 
I believe everything is back to normal now, but why risk it?

I flew in the day of my Majesty cruise a couple weeks ago.. and while everything went perfectly, I was fairly stressed going in to it. 
 
We will have to fly in on the day of for our cruise on Allure for our honeymoon (leaving the day after our wedding to board) unless there is a midnight red-eye.. we'll be exhausted though. 
 
I definitely strongly prefer the day before, but also get the situations where it's just not doable. If it must be done, make sure it's a direct flight and it's as early in the morning as possible. 

This.

I plan on it.. Wife is nervous, I got a drink package...

My recent experience...  On July 29 we were schedule to fly from Buffalo, NY at 8:00AM to Fort Lauderdale landing at 11:00AM, boarding Oasis of the Seas on July 30.  When we arrived at the airport at 6:00 AM we were told our flight was cancelled and they could reschedule us to arrive in Fort Lauderdale the following evening.  Getting us there after the ship would have left port.   That was the only alternative Southwest gave us.  We walked over to Jet Blue and they got us to FL at midnight the same night.  20 hours in an airport and planes was not fun.  We had to pay ridiculous money to get us there but had we been flying the same day as we were to board ship we would have missed it.    
 
Change reservation and fly the day before.

Going to the Bahamas this weekend... Going to be a bumpy ride... Can't wait, haven't had that much fun since the Navy...

Thanks everyone!  We're looking into options to push up our travel to the port as well as keeping a close eye on the weather development.  Obviously this is a very good lesson learned and we will plan accordingly for future cruises.

Thanks everyone!  We're looking into options to push up our travel to the port as well as keeping a close eye on the weather development.  Obviously this is a very good lesson learned and we will plan accordingly for future cruises.

Hey, Ken.  Glad you are back in cruise-mode.  Welcome back !

fonemanbob...we'll be on a greek isles cruise in June 2017, and we will be very interested in your feedback on the PK travel tour in Athens. Please post an update after your cruise! Thanks in advance. :)