My wife and I traveled with a tour company that works with churches as part of a large group of about 650 people. We had a wonderful time. Our tours focused on Bible-based sites and we had a guest lecturer who delivered 5 lectures in the theater on our at-sea days,
We arrived in Rome on Saturday morning and our tour company provided a bus tour of some of the sites, especially the Coliseum. Always dreamed of seeing it and now I have.
We were somewhat late in arriving at the ship because of the large number of buses that had to unload ahead of us. Then, in the terminal, NCL experienced some computer system troubles that slowed down the embarkation process somewhat, so we didn't get to our stateroom until about 4:30 pm.