Charming little town and the train station is an easy 25 minute walk. Once there you can purchase a 5 town train ticket -Cinque de terre- which also includes the price of the bus to access the sixth village. You will not have enough time to do it all with the amount of time allotted for this stop, even if you are first off the ship. So pick and choose and remember not to cut it too close coming ...
Walked off the ship and into the centre of town (approx 25 mins) where we bought a family train ticket to Cinque Terre. There you can visit all five town on the rail line. We just did 4 which was enough, missing out the one in the middle as we were told there was a lot of steps to climb and we didn't want to rush visiting the other towns. We started at the furest away and made our way back. All ...
went on Ship tour for a wine tasting in Tuscany, liked as it was half day, however didn't really leave time for pisa so missed that (wish they'd had a combined one-as travel to piza is long didn't want to risk doing it ourselves and not makign it back for the wine tour) place we went was nice, people there were nice, wine and info was great! good prices for shipping wine overseas as well. ...
La Spezia: Here we had plans to take the ferry up the coast of Cinque Terre but the towns had been shut down due to flooding and boats were not operating due to rainy weather. Still were able to take the free shuttle into downtown La Spezia for shopping and sightseeing ...
We traveled to Florence by coach arranged by Celebrity. The 90 minutes each way were 2 and a half hours in reality. That left us two hours in the city. Poor value for money, and the travel time was misrepresented in the brochure. ...
We consciously decided against a tour to Florence as we didn't fancy a long coach ride for just a few hours there. We are lucky enough to know we can come for a weekend break from home quite easily. Instead we decided to visit the Cinque Terre towns by train (we're not big hikers) and had read a great guide on Cruise Critic to help us with that. The weather was wet and grey but we had ...
