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What do you consider "all of the main sites"? There's no way to see all of them in a one day tour, especially not one that spends hours going out to Burano and back. Which are you most interested in?

I have a strong bias here, but this is your trip and should fit your interests. My personal opinion is that the Amalfi Coast is wildly overcrowded, to the point that it's often not enjoyable to be there. I would avoid it anytime in July and August, and weekends from May through the end of October. Plus it's a lot of effort and time to get there. Naples, on the other hand, is chock full of art, history, culture, food, shopping ... pretty much anything you might be interested in other than small villages and those famous views. One huge benefit of staying right in Naples is that you can pretty much walk everywhere and there's no need for a guide. Some of my favorites in Naples include: * The cloisters of Santa Chiara, an oasis of calm and beauty in the middle of the city: Home - Chiostro di Santa Chiara (monasterodisantachiara.it) * Museo and Cappella Sansevero, for the amazing Veiled Christ and other stunning sculptures: The Sansevero Chapel | Sansevero Chapel Museum (museosansevero.it) * Teatro San Carlo, a gem for music lovers (esp. opera): Teatro di San Carlo - Napoli (teatrosancarlo.it) * The Archaeology museum, one of the best in the world: home – English|mann napoli (mann-napoli.it) * San Martino certosa and museum, great location overlooking the port, it's worth it just for the trip up there (funicolare and public escalators) but especially for the collection of presipi, the nativity scenes Naples is famous for. This is not the official website, which only works during Italian working hours for unknown reasons, but this gives you some info: Museo e Certosa di San Martino - Musei di Napoli (museinapoli.it) * Underground Naples - there is a rich history undergound, from thousands of years ago right up to WWII, when residents lived down there during bombing raids: Home - Napoli Sotterranea

You shouldn't have a problem finding a salon for a wash and blow out. If you are staying in a hotel, ask them to recommend someone and make the call for an appointment.

For which option? In the past there was no need but tourism has been so crazy the last few years that I would make a reservation if you want a private boat. The ATVO bus or the Alilaguna water bus should be okay without a reservation.

Here are a few of the bigger pharmacies that have websites, maybe page through and see if you can find your brands: Farmacia Centrale | Dott. Di Gioacchino (farmaciacentraledigioacchino.com) Farmacia online autorizzata dal Ministero della Salute - Farmacie Mariani Igiene E Cosmesi (farmaciamacedonio.it) FARMACIA INTERNAZIONALE - Piazza Barberini ROMA (farmaciainternazionaleroma.it)

When I was in Rome in November I discovered that my go-to store for all personal care products (and a lot more) for more than twenty years had closed!! They're putting in yet another restaurant. Here's what I'd suggest, go through your things and separate out the items that are very specific and hard to find and carry those, then buy the more common items once in Rome. Unless you are leaking money out of every orifice, don't count on buying anything at all in Amalfi. The few people who actually live there don't, so what is stocked is for tourists and priced accordingly.

Easiest and least expensive are rarely the same, unfortunately. The main transit options are: * Private motorboat, about 140 euro * Alilaguna public waterbus, 15 euro * Land taxi to Piazzale Roma plus vaporetto, 40 euro plus 9,50 euro * ATVO express bus to Piazzale Roma plus vaporetto, 10 euro plus 9,50 euro List of motorboat companies on the airport website here: Water taxi Venice Airport - Water Taxi to and from the Airport (veneziaairport.it) Alilaguna: Linea Rossa | Alilaguna Taxi: Taxi Venezia e Mestre: Cooperativa Radiotaxi a Venezia, i principali taxi autorizzati (radiotaxivenezia.com) ATVO: Venice Airport bus service (atvo.it) I've arrived to (or departed from) Venice just about every way possible, while many wax on about the romance of the private boat, I go for the Alilaguna. The private boat is nice, but to me it's not worth the cost unless you have a group (as we did) to split the cost.

If the tour ends in the Sistine chapel, and if you cannot exit from there into the basilica, you'd have to walk back to the entrance which takes about 30 minutes, due to crowding in the museums. That means you'd hit the street around 6:30 PM facing a half hour walk to the Roma S. Pietro station (1.9 km/1.2 miles), so the earliest train you could count on making would be 7 PM. There is one at 19:02 (7:02 PM) that arrives to Civitavecchia at 20:00, too late for you.

There are some ferries in November, but the schedule is drastically scaled back and they do cancel in the case of bad weather and/or high seas. Many of the stops are not docks, but simple landing platforms, you would not want to try that on a high weather day. If you happen to have a nice day during your stay, go for it. There's no need to book anything in advance so you can make a game-day call.

Six of one, half dozen of the other. Both stations have multiple tracks but both also have elevators at each track.

If you want to depart right from the ship, the only options I'm aware of are a ship's excursion, a private car service, or renting a car from one of the agencies that bring them to the port (do they still do that? It's been a few years for me.) The car service would be the most expensive, but also the fastest and easiest option. You could post on the roll call thread for your sailing to see if you can find others to share the car (or minivan) with you, to reduce the cost per person.

The Colosseo web site only shows two ticket offices. We used to get tickets at the Palatine hill ticket office, that was always faster but they don't list it here. From these two, I would expect Largo della Salara Vecchia to have fewer people. If Palatine Hill is still a possibility that they're just neglecting to mention here, I'd go for that one.

Both of the shore excursions options require you to take the port shuttle into Livorno to meet up with them, then you might wait even longer for passengers from other ships. This is how they word it on the link you provided: An approximate 10 to 15-minute shuttle ride (not included, approximately 5 EUR per person) is required to reach the departure location. Full details will be provided in your electronic ticket upon confirmation.

You can buy tickets at any retailer in Pompei, but that may not be near the stop. Newsstand and tobacco shops carry them. According to the Sita website, there is a retailer right near the Porta Marina (main) entrance to the ruins: POMPEI TOUR ORGANIZER S.R.L. Via VILLA DEI MISTERI, 1 I PIANO POMPEI To be on the safe side, you could ask your taxi driver to stop at the depot in the morning so you can buy them, it would only take a minute and you'd be driving past it to get out of the port area anyway. The ticket you'd need is the NA3 Aziendale, 3,30 euro. Be sure to validate the ticket in the stamping machine on the bus as soon as you board.

Lots of info on Ostia here: Ostia - Harbour City of Ancient Rome (ostia-antica.org)

The grotto is open seven days a week, weather permitting. If the seas are rough, they will not open, it's too unsafe for both the oarmen and passengers to try and get through the entry in rough seas. Most shops will still be open, more since Covid than before. The season is stretching into November now.

You need to be at the airport three hours prior to an international flight (1:55 PM) or two hours prior to a Schengen flight (2:55 PM). There is a left luggage office at the airport, I'd be a tad skeptical of a service that takes your things away and comes back with them later, but maybe that's me. From the airport web site: Luggage storage is located in Terminal 3, International Arrivals close to door n°6. Opening hours: 7.00 a.m.-11.00 p.m. Telephone: +39 0665953541 E-mail : depositobagagliadr@adr.it The price is 10,00€ (VAT included) per luggage 24h. Payment is made upon collection of baggage. No reservation needed. link here: Baggage services - ADR Ostia Antica is a good idea. If you do as you've described and use a shuttle to the airport, then a cab from the airport to the ruins, be sure to ask the driver for his card and arrange for him to come back for you at a specific time. If for some reason he does not, you can ask the staff at the ticket office to call a cab for you, but it would be nice to only have to use that as a backup.

Part of the problem you are running into is the wide gap between expectations and reality on the ground. The Amalfi Coast has become overcrowded nearly to the point of breaking, which means that getting around by land is slow, slow, slow. As a result, overly ambitious agendas are often cut en route, disappointing travelers who arrived without a realistic set of expectations. Within the confines of a port day it simply is not possible to visit Ravello, Amalfi, Positano and Sorrento (which is not on the Amalfi Coast) and have any amount of time in each place. Even the vaunted RIL cannot change the facts on the ground, but as CruiserBruce notes, they know this and won't agree to a day they cannot provide.

Note that there are two different ferry docks at Salerno. Molo Manfredi is in the same part of the port as the cruise terminal, so if you can get a ferry from there it will be easier. There are two departures that would make sense for you, at 8:20 on NLG or 8:40 on Travelmar. I would make advance reservations for these, because the cruise line will have already locked up places for their tours. If for some reason you can't get on either of these, the Concordia dock that handles most of the Travelmar ferries is an easy walk of about a mile and a half along the waterfront promenade. Travelmar schedule here: Orari traghetti Travelmar - Traghetti veloci in Costiera Amalfitana NLG here: NLG » Official website

😄 Oh no Hank! Actually, I didn't mean to suggest that the train was the best option for this group (although the OP does state that they have no problem with mobility) but as I read back my responses it does come across that way. I was focused on answering the specific question about the number of train options rather than the larger question of how to get there. I agree that if there is a shuttle offered by the cruise line, that would be the easiest routing and probably cost about the same as the train plus taxi option.

In that case I'd lean toward one of the two Italo treno options. Keep in mind that you've got quite a ride from the Ravenna train station to the cruise port. They aren't accepting reservations yet for October, wait another month and try then. You can save significantly if you purchase in advance. Also note that Ravenna apparently (based on comments here and on Trip Advisor) has a dearth of taxis so you might want to prearrange with a car service to get from the train station to the port, unless the cruise line is offering a transfer.

Is it possible that you're overnighting in Ravenna for a Friday departure? The Ravenna cruise port shows the Viva leaving on Friday at 5 PM. If that's the case, I might see about delaying my boarding until Friday, or at least find out the latest time possible on Thursday.

There are trains throughout the day, on both Trenitalia and Italotreno. Arriving by 12:00 seems early and that deadline reduces your options. Is this a self-defined deadline? If the ship doesn't depart until 5 PM, why make your travel more difficult than it needs to be? Using the noon deadline, you have two options on Italotreno, at 7:05 (arrives 10:17) and 8:05 (arrives 11:17). Both of these are high speed, seat assigned trains to Bologna followed by a regional Trenitalia train (no seat assignments) from Bologna to Ravenna. On Trenitalia you have more options, but I'm assuming you want to minimize the number of changes so if you limit it just to routes with one change there are four trains that will get you there before noon (departures at 5:40, 5:51, 6:53 and 7:40). I should note that only one of the Trenitalia departures, the 6:53, includes a seat assigned segment (Venice to Ferrara), the rest are all regionals. Italo, italian high-speed train | Book no service fee | italotreno.it EN - Trenitalia

With RC, when they say Venice the actual port is Ravenna, more than 100 south (two and a half hours driving time, slightly longer by train). If you want to spend time in Venice you'll need to factor that into your planning.

There is a recent thread on TripAdvisor where the Sicily expert (Vagabonda) addresses this question: Erice Forum - Cable Car from Trapani to Erice - Tripadvisor