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Great advice, @John Bull! About how much should I budget for Bath Road hotel taxi? I think I'll heed Gumshoe and your advice and just go to Winchester. Appreciate the approximate visit times and the restaurant recommendations!

Thanks @gumshoe958, I did not realize you needed a time slot for Stonehenge. Once I know everyone's airlines, we'll take a look at the Hilton. Appreciate your help!

Traveling with my dad and his siblings (14 pax) - looking for recommendations for private mini-bus hires (with drivers) for when we disembark Lisbon for one night post cruise. Would like to visit Fatima + ?? We don't need luxury transportation, but I think it just might be easier to have our own transportation. I'm just getting started so I don't know exactly where we'll go yet, so any advice is welcome.

Traveling with my dad and his siblings (14 pax) - looking for recommendations for private mini-bus hires (with drivers) for when we're in Bilbao. We don't need luxury transportation, but I think it just might be easier to have our own transportation to explore. I'm just getting started so I don't know exactly where we'll go yet, so any advice is welcome.

Traveling with my dad and his siblings (14 pax) - looking for recommendations for private mini-bus hires (with drivers) for when we're in various ports while traveling on Norwegian Star... - Le Havre (Normandy beach, American cemetery?) - Le Verdon (wine-tasting, Bordeaux) We don't need luxury transportation, but I think it just might be easier to have our own transportation to visit sites. I'm just getting started so I don't know exactly where we'll go yet for all the ports, so any advice is welcome.

Traveling with my dad and his siblings (14 pax) - looking for recommendations for private mini-bus hires (with drivers) for when we're in various ports while traveling on Norwegian Star... - Amsterdam - Giethoorn, Zaanse Schans? - Brussels (Zeebrugge) We don't need luxury transportation, but I think it just might be easier to have our own transportation to visit sites. I'm just getting started so I don't know exactly where we'll go yet for all the ports, so any advice is welcome.

@sea mom, did you end up finding a private tour company for this? I'm traveling with my dad and his siblings (16 pax) and we'll be in port overnight and think Zaanse Schans would be a nice day trip.

Thanks JB for all the great info. Agreed re: staying near hotel...I think getting everyone in one spot should be first priority and then once everyone is at the hotel (overnight), then we can travel together. Appreciate the reminder about delayed flights as one option was to try to get to Southampton Sunday evening - so we'll scratch off that option. We're traveling from 3 different US cities. For airport hotels, I'm currently considering Hyatt Place (The Grove, Bath Rd, Harmondsworth, ~£103/dbl occupancy), but am open to other suggestions (especially if I can get a quad occupancy hotel room that's reasonably priced). I'll request quotes from your list - again thank you! What do you all think about a Stonehenge (or Winchester, or ??) stopover enroute to Southampton? I know it will add to the cost, but if we don't do any sight-seeing in London, it might be nice to have a stop.

We're flying in from the US (Seattle, Houston and Newark), so from a quick google search, terminal 2 or 3?

I'm accompanying my dad and his siblings (mid-late 70s) and we're arriving in London to cruise out of Southampton (14 pax). Arriving a day early, so thinking best option is to book hotel near LHR (since we're arriving from 3 different cities) and then finding a group transfer to get us to Southampton the following day. If you have different advice/recommendation, please let me know. - sticking with major brands (e.g. Hyatt, IHG) as the prices seem reasonable (~$130/room) and we need 7 rooms, Double occupancy - is a taxi the easiest option to get from airport to hotel? for budget, what's approx cost (we'll probably have a group of 2 and two groups of 6 arriving)? - Recommendations on how to get this group from hotel to Southampton? Trying to balance cost and convenience...Is there a private operator? or should we take a taxi from hotel to train station and then take train? Thanks in advance! It's been YEARS since we've all cruised together, so I'm a bit out of practice on moving a large group.