Island Princess Med Oct 23-Nov 6 **** PHOTOS!****

Good morning,

going to post photos for our cruise. We had a fantastic time spending 4 days pre cruise in Rome. As you will see in the Rome photos we had all 4 days of clear blue sky!! Not going to post much as far as comments etc.

We stayed at the Hotel DioCleziano which was a block from Termini train station.

Some photos may be out of sync etc so bare with me.

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Restaurant Babbo the first night...... which was about 1 block from the hotel.

Fresh picked Porcini.

Love these trees....

We took some suggestions from Norris (Bimmer09) from his Med review and went to this exclusive restaurant. We were able to walk to Termini station and take the train to many places. This was one of them. Which saved us quite a bit of time.

Fares were 1.50 Euro.

We walked to many places during the day and night and felt safe all the time.

We tried this restaurant after seeing it in Norris's review.

It was good but we decided we liked the more authentic Italian places.

A great Gelato place which gets great online ratings.

Next up the Colosseum........

The Forum.....

The Vatican in the distance...

If this marble walkway could only talk....

Time for a early dinner, it was a long day. We found this place La Famiglia about 1 block away from the hotel. I had walked by it earlier and it was packed to the gills with locals at lunch time so I knew it had to be good.

The hotel only had about 30 rooms and there were at least 10 from Cruise Critic. 7 of us set up a 9:00 transfer to the port through Rome in Limo. Its about a 45-60 minute drive. It was Sunday so there was no traffic. Cost about 190 euro split 7 ways 27e each.

We arrived at the port around 10:00am dropped off the luggage and were handed group #2 tags. There was only about 75 people there. We waited about 45 minutes and then checked in. We were directed to another sitting area and boarded around 11:30. It went very smoothly.

We were in Lido 726 (Gibraltar Suite) the very center aft facing newly added suite. The passageway and the suite still had the new car smell. :)

Forgot to take photos before the luggage arrived so its a slight mess.....

Itinerary-

Rome

Livorno (Florence)

Cannes, France

Corsica (Ajaccio) France

Naples, Italy

Mykonos, Greece

Athens, Greece

Kusadasi, turkey

Santorini, Greece

They canceled Istanbul due to security reasons. (Election Day) and went to Santorini instead.

Sailaway from Civitavecchia....

The wake...

Breakfast in Sabatini's!