Loved it, even though we only went to the Cuidad de las Artes y Las Ciencias. As a side note, for both Valencia and Barcelona, Catalan is the local language. Between my wife and I, we speak five languages reasonably fluently and learned some Italian for this trip - but Catalan is a language unto itself, which we both really enjoyed - even though we could barely understand it. ...
Took taxi to the modern part of the town - the city of science and art, and visited the Oceanografic, the largest aquarium in Europe. Very impressive. Had paella lunch in old town Valencia, delicious. ...
Taxi fares are quite reasonable. When we learned that the cruise provided shuttle would not stop at the City of Arts and Sciences we decided to use taxis. Unfortunately our time onshore was too brief. Definitely visit the central market. ...
We took an Aquarium tour independent of the ship. Ship charged for transport into the city center -- not even Costa docks in a shipyard then charges its clients for transport out of the shipyard... HUGE turn off ...
Valencia is a beautiful city! We saw it on our own by taking city buses to both the City of Arts & Sciences and then another bus to the town center. We walked for miles prior to taking a public bus back to the port. ...