Hello we are doing a cruise this November and wanted to know if anyone has done this cruise from Venice back to Venice stops Bari Italy, Katakolon, Santorini, Piraeus, Corfu-Greece, Kotor Montenegro. We are trying to decide what tours to do. We already have a private tour for Athens planned so the Piraeus stop is done. We don't normally do a cruise this is our first cruise in Europe we usually do land. Any helpful thoughts or areas you especially liked would be helpful It's hard only having the one day with shorts hours to be able to decide what would be worth it.
Thanks to all who might respond.
Blessings
Cyndi Podlaski
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
In addition to any replies you get here, look at Cruise Critic. That said, while the site has a lot of information, it can be very hard to navigate. So...
Here is their Greece Ports Forum: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/463-greece-ports/
and their Italy Ports Forum: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/464-italy-ports/
and their Other Mediterranean Ports Forum (for Kotor): https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/149-other-mediterranean-ports/
Here are their Roll Calls, where you can "meet" others on your sailing and arrange port excursions with them (potentially both cheaper and better than ones through the cruise line): https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/20-roll-calls/
Do you have Rick's book Mediterranean Cruise Ports? It has a lot of information about what's involved in navigating ports on your own, so for each port you can decide if you want to do it on your own, or want to do one of the ship's excursions, or want book your own tour.
Posted by
Atlanta
5154 posts
We were on a cruise that stopped at Kotor and this is just a "heads up". From Kotor there is a road that leads away from the bay inland. The views looking back at the bay are spectacular. But, the road goes up the side of a steep mountain and has 25 numbered 180 degree switchback turns and at least 75 other sharp turns. There is a rock wall on one side and nothing on the other. Can't remember the name or number of the road, but the excursion we took went to the towns of Njegusi and Cetinje. Don't mean to rain on you parade, but don't want you to get into a hairy situation without any knowledge. If anyone in your party is prone to motion sickness or has a problem with heights you might want to avoid this excursion. You can go to bing.com, use the map feature, and see aerial views of the road from &*$$. You can also check it out on googlemaps.com.
On 12 Mar. 2017 there was a thread on this forum titled "Greece Montenegro Croatia". One person included a link to the map that shows the road. Another person had a link to a video made along parts of the road
Posted by
OP
Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
14 posts
Thank you both so much. Great information.
Cyndi
Posted by
martinez, ca, usa
2389 posts
hey hey cyndi
sent you a private message, check your inbox.
aloha