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If anyone has done Shores and Fjords with a pre in Bruges, approximately what time do you arrive at the ship in Amsterdam? Has anyone tried to do the Anne Frank house on arrival day? Is there likely to be enough time, and how did you get there and back? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

We did this cruise last April. You will love it! We were lucky enough to get the Viking excursion for Gaudi in Barcelona. It included going inside La Sagrada—absolutely a must. Nice, Eze, and Monte Carlo was a long day, and our tour person wasn’t very good, but the locations were great. We did the Catacombs/Vatican excursion in Rome and got tickets for the Museums/Sistine Chapel prior to the trip. That worked out nicely. Pompeii is a must. We did the included tour and the wall walk in Dubrovnik. Both were excellent. I would really recommend the Krka waterfall excursion in Split. It’s a bit of a drive, but the falls are incredible. We did the evening gondola ride in Venice—touristy but a great experience if you haven’t ever done it. We got tickets for St Marks and for the Doge’s Palace prior to the trip. That worked out very well.

If your excursions haven’t yet posted to MVJ, you will probably receive a print out of excursions from previous cruises. Many of those pre-Covid excursions were not available to us when our cruise excursions actually posted.

The catacombs were first. The excursion was 7:45-4:15, and we got to St. Peter’s around noon. The drop off was nearer to St Peters, but on the side of the square to the left of St Peters. The walk to/through the museums took us about 30 min, and we walk fairly briskly. We were there the week before Easter, so everything was very crowded. The line for St Peters was very long, so we didn’t have time to go there.

We did this excursion in April. We booked the Vatican Museums for 12:30, and we probably could have done anything after 12:00. We arrived at the Vatican a little before noon, after encountering some traffic entering Rome. This was a great excursion. The Catacombs were awesome.