maui07

Thank you everyone, gosh I thought I was posting on the Italy boards. Will check out the gladiator school, how cool. Appreciate the feedback!

We are taling our kids this summer on a 11 night Med cruise and flying in 4 days early and staying in Rome in August. We are looking for interesing tours or places/sights to take our 9 and 12 year old boys. We dont plan on taking ship excursions and will be doing independent tours and talking the train many ports. My first question is has anyne used tuscany bus tours? Their prices are 1/4 of the price of ship excursions and seem to fit the bill of what we are looking for. Thanks in advance.

You wll be absolutely fine, no need for an expedited passport. The person at RC has no idea what they are taling about. We cruise in 2 weeks with kids that have passports expiring in the fall. No need to worry.

so how does that work when the mandate starts on day 1? Just crew sick?

Well thats HAL's "official policy" on the website and what other ships are doing.

The current policy is mask optional except for embark/debark and a few shared spaces like elevators. Hoping it stays that way, we will be sailing in a few weeks and won't be wearing masks.