We are on Explorer in October stopping at Livorno 9am to 7pm we have booked Florence on your own for 9hrs as we have been before and did the Florence and Pisa trip last time, they took us to Florence then onto Pisa spending lots of time in both places, good tour guide in Florence and some time on your own, left to do your own thing in Pisa. They have the Florence/Pisa trip online again when I booked our excursions its for 9.5 hrs £84 per adult, its expensive but if you have never been before and with only 1/2hr to spare with the ship only spending 10hrs there I would definitely pay the price, it is worth the money we enjoyed it. And you have the security of being on a Marella tour. It rained for a couple of hrs the last time we went to Florence so want to go again (hopefully rain free) and visit places we missed last time, and once you have been to Pisa in our opinion there is no need to visit again.
On my booking and online shore excursions I cannot see anywhere the shore excursions start time, it says on my booking that we get into Livorno at 9am to 7pm and the excursions are in hrs not start from and back to ship time. Same for all stops and excursions, we dont usually find out times coach leaves port until you are on the ship and find your tickets on the bed when you get in your cabin with dates and times on them. Thats how its always worked on all the other Marella cruises we have been on.
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We are on Explorer in October stopping at Livorno 9am to 7pm we have booked Florence on your own for 9hrs as we have been before and did the Florence and Pisa trip last time, they took us to Florence then onto Pisa spending lots of time in both places, good tour guide in Florence and some time on your own, left to do your own thing in Pisa. They have the Florence/Pisa trip online again when I booked our excursions its for 9.5 hrs £84 per adult, its expensive but if you have never been before and with only 1/2hr to spare with the ship only spending 10hrs there I would definitely pay the price, it is worth the money we enjoyed it. And you have the security of being on a Marella tour. It rained for a couple of hrs the last time we went to Florence so want to go again (hopefully rain free) and visit places we missed last time, and once you have been to Pisa in our opinion there is no need to visit again.
On my booking and online shore excursions I cannot see anywhere the shore excursions start time, it says on my booking that we get into Livorno at 9am to 7pm and the excursions are in hrs not start from and back to ship time. Same for all stops and excursions, we dont usually find out times coach leaves port until you are on the ship and find your tickets on the bed when you get in your cabin with dates and times on them. Thats how its always worked on all the other Marella cruises we have been on.