May 18th, 2024 - May 25th, 2024 Disney Dream - DVC Member's Cruise

[Mathmagicland]

And, Barcelona has increased their tourist tax as of this week Monday -

https://thepointsguy.com/news/barcelona-increases-tourist-tax/

 

[loril13]

We booked a third party Foodie Walking Tour in Palermo. One of my favorite things about traveling is trying local cuisine. The potential excursions seemed meh to both of us.

 

[MsOnceUponATime]

Hi all! I'm not on this cruise, but another cruise later in the year. If anyone is willing to share their Barcelona hotel I would be appreciative! Just need one night for three people (adults), but am struggling to find something comfortable and have been considering booking two rooms (husband wife + adult child -- we could all use our space).

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

This was emailed to concierge guests earlier this week. FYI, this is what will be available

 

[Mathmagicland]

This was emailed to concierge guests earlier this week. FYI, this is what will be available

Thanks for posting! The app has seemed like this info would be available soon, as Palermo is no longer greyed out, but when selecting that port it’s been giving an error. They are likely waiting until Concierge makes their selections and then will open it up to everyone else. The list is less than half of what the website shows as possible options.

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Thanks for posting! The app has seemed like this info would be available soon, as Palermo is no longer greyed out, but when selecting that port it’s been giving an error. They are likely waiting until Concierge makes their selections and then will open it up to everyone else. The list is less than half of what the website shows as possible options.

Yeah, any day now I expect them to go through the tiered booking system. Unfortunately, we're silver so probably slim pickings when they get to us, lol

 

[vpusey]

Palermo excursions are available for Silver members

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Thanks for the heads up! We booked a morning one and an afternoon one

 

[Mathmagicland]

The two new ones in the Concierge email aren’t there yet - PL10 & PL35…

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

The two new ones in the Concierge email aren’t there yet - PL10 & PL35…

PL 10 might be interesting. Images of those places look nice. Might switch to that one if it becomes available

 

[nthn345]

While the Navigator app says 6:00am - 6:00pm for Livorno ... The port website itself says 6:45 - 7:15. This is impactful for those people trying to plan trains on their own.

 

[Mathmagicland]

While the Navigator app says 6:00am - 6:00pm for Livorno ... The port website itself says 6:45 - 7:15. This is impactful for those people trying to plan trains on their own.

Thanks for,this info, that is a pretty big time difference.

 

[nthn345]

For all of those that were expecting to see museums in Florence. With the itinerary change and the cruise landing in Florence on a Monday, be aware that museums are closed on Mondays. That means no Uffizi and no Accademia Gallery. There are other David's in the city, but the one in the museum is not accessible based on my research.

 

[Mathmagicland]

For those flying from the US and connecting through Heathrow, sharing some airport security info from my brother who connected through Heathrow last fall, to maybe help avoid a bit of added delay -

Unlike many US airports, at Heathrow all liquids of any kind must be removed from carryon luggage and put in a clear plastic bag when going thru security.

They had a flight from the US to Heathrow and connecting flight from Heathrow to another European city. Even though the inbound and outbound flights were in the same terminal, they were routed back through security.

In the US with TSA Precheck, in many airports liquids can be left in your carryon bag. When they had to go through security again in Heathrow they had removed their obvious liquids, but did not remove things like toothpaste, eye drop, deodorant, etc. The bags got flagged and they had to go thru secondary screening that took another 30 minutes because of the backlog.

Definitely suggest taking out anything that might resemble a liquid or gel and put it in a plastic quart bag.

 

[Mathmagicland]

For Palermo, port adventure PL35 is now in the app. Still not yet seeing PL10.