2 days in Tuscany after cruise

Not sure what sort of advice you are looking for
Transportation? Hotel? Cooking class?
Getting to Tuscany- I will assume Florence- is easy enough. 2 nights there is really just 1.5 days- I would not expect to be in Florence til mid afternoon at best- by the time you get off your boat, get to train/transfer etc then get to your lodgings in Florence.
That leaves the next day for a cooking class and whatever sightseeing you are interested in. ( some major sights closed Mon or Tues)
Any way you can give it 3 nights?

Then return to Rome- will you be spending a night there before departure or hopefully you are not planning to get to Rome on the day of your departure. Very risky!

I'm in Christine's corner here. With only 2 days - and one of them largely taken with transport from port to a location in Tuscany - you'd have very little time to do much more than a class.

As she'd asked, you don't say if you must return to Rome for a fight home or whether you intend to spend a few days there? Neither of us would recommend transferring from a Tuscany location to Fiumicino the same day as an international flight out!

OP may very well have a night to add. We don't know yet if there are Rome nights after this Tuscany jaunt that can be borrowed from.

I'm hoping so! Looks like we're both waiting to see what the onward plan is from Tuscany. :O)

Hi. Sorry for the brevity of my first post. I was rushed. Let me try again! I'm cruising the Mediterranean for 10 days. We leave from Civitavecchia outside of Rome. We plan on getting to Rome a day early to avoid any travel glitches with the flight...don't want to miss the boat!

After the cruise I was trying to decide where in Tuscany to stay 2 nights, leaving on the 3rd day. I was trying to find a place to stay that is not too far from Civitavecchia. My travel friend wants a cooking class in Tuscany. In my mind I picture vineyards, maybe an agratourismo but near a town to stroll through during the day.

I've been to Florence twice (and absolutely loved it), but I'd like our after cruise experience to not be too sightseey.

Sienna? Livorno?

I know...I've got a lot of thinking to do!

Thanks!!

You have still not described the "onward plan from Tuscany." Your mention of return to Rome suggests that you have already bought RT air tickets and are flying home from Rome on the third day. What time of day is your flight home? That determines whether you can even consider the risk of sleeping in Tuscany on the last day. (Orvieto might be the safest place to do that, with train to Rome or two trains, to FCO.) Or do you have a Rome stay planned after Tuscany? What month of the year. Do you wish to rent a car in Tuscany or not?

I personally have no interest in cooking classes, and think it is a mistake to dedicate so much time to such a consumer-product during such a short stay. Visiting Florence (as you have in the past) is not the same as visiting, say, the hill towns of Tuscany. It appears that some hill-towns are your objective. But maybe you mentioned Siena because you want a single place that cannot be exhausted in two nights. That would be a strategic choice, but you are not yet talking "strategy", you are talking "wishes."

Reading between the lines, you don't want to rent a car. For two nights, that's a defensible decision. But, that limits what you can do in Tuscany. And it makes the things you can do, more "touristy", which you said you don't want. Waiting for busses and local trains can eat up a lot of touring time when you are racing the clock.

We rented a car within walking distance of the Civitavecchia port transportation (i.e. shuttle bus) center. We drove to Orvieto, with a short stop in Viterbo, and slept near Sinalunga. But we had four nights, followed by an overnight at FCO before our flight home. That was July high season, very crowded and annoying parking delays. That's one reason we stayed in a rural resort with no place to walk to nearby: Prompt arrivals and returns to our room. It's a personal choice.