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In addition to your all unanimous advice, I just read Rick Steves' blurb on Capri. It's off the list.

CruiseMom, excellent tip on the museum and thanks for actually timing out the entire day showing how the idea was very chron-optimistic.

Hank, I appreciate your point of view, but take minor offense to your comment. Since Disney is offering the port adventure, asking is the same can be done DIY is not "if it's Tuesday..." That said, the entire cruise is litterally that. Every morning is a new

City. Rome in 12 hours? That is my Tuesday. (Naples is Monday) The entire week will be a series of "Best of Highlights" adventures. This is cruise critic where people talk about cruising. I've been to Rome and Florence for multiple days each before. If asking about trying to maximize my time in my first and maybe only time in Naples makes me the "victim of the day" I wear the badge proudly.

Everyone else, thanks for the replies tips and suggestions. Capri is off the list.

Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like sticking with just Pompeii and if we have extra time, grab a pizza back in Naples.

We are on the Disney Magic and our time in Naples is 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM

The question is, is is possible to catch an early 8 AM ferry to Capri. Hit the blue grotto and chairlift and be on a noon ish ferry to Sorento and then train to Pompeii. While I know you spend a half day just there, we'd settle for a solid 2+ hours of Roman history, perhaps following Rick Steve'd audio tour, and then train back to Naples and the ship?

I had originally thought we'd need to Capri or Pompeii, but the ship has several shore excursions that do both, so I'm now thinking, why not do both ourselves too. DCL is most likely using the same ferry schedule's we are, and we have no problem being in line to exit prior to the ship clearing customs and them opening the door and hopefully in front of the port adventures.

On a different perspective, we've always felt the need to tip at least the recommended daily amounts for the dining room server and assist server per person as a baseline.

That said, with one exception, we have always tipped higher rounded up as most of the time the service is fantastic. As a rule we most of the time round up to $20. ($10 each)

We did have one Palo dinner that the server was phoning it in and pretty much ignored us. We pretty much ignored them on the tip line.