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That sounds like a great solution.

There are 2 types of transfers offered on the AQ website outside of the 3-day post cruise stay. One is $129 per person and includes a 3 hour tour of Nashville and ends at BNA. The other one doesn't show a price but doesn't include the tour and goes straight to the airport.

Greyhound has service to Nashville from Clarksville as does the Nashville MTA (Express Route #94). There's also Groome Transportation that has transportation between Ft. Campbell and Nashville. I don't know if their schedules would work for you or where they pick up in Clarksville.

@cdcampione, I just checked and saw that the cruise ends in Clarksville, an hour away on I-24. The website I checked had a transfer available from the cruise line for $129. I'll do some more research for you, but that,may be your best bet. What kind of private transfer were you looking at to share with someone? Where in Nashville do you want to go?

Doesn't your cruise end in Nashville? Where are you wanting to transfer to? The airport? Opryland hotel? Other hotel?

I think it has possibilities if the pricing is right. Kind of like visiting Paris in the winter after Christmas. Lower airfares and hotel rates; far fewer crowds and tourists. I did a Christmas cruise with Tauck last year. The weather was miserable in Holland and Belgium but it was one of my best cruises. I've booked it again this year and the New Years cruise after it.

@alyssamma, thank you for a well written, even handed review from a HAL newb.

@pontac, I was referring to something else. I meant accessibility to buildings and transportation when outside the US.

Cruise Critic isn't a court of law or a master's thesis committee. 🤣

Good point. I've encountered a number of people who don't realize the ADA doesn't extend to Europe.

@Got2Cruise, yes, it was Austria Airlines out of Dulles.

I dug through my old records, and I flew from Nashville to Dulles, Dulles to Vienna, and then on to Budapest. I booked through Uniworld, and the fare was far less than booking on my own. Going back from Passau, I flew Munich to EWR, then EWR to Nashville.

@rove312, I've always booked my river cruises over a year in advance for a couple of reasons. Helps me to budget/save for the trip, and I travel solo. Solo fares/spaces are often capacity controlled, so if I really want something, I book it as soon as the solo fares are available.

@CPT Trips, I live in Nashville, so not a major airport like Philly. I think my flight went something like Nashville to Munich or Frankfurt, then Vienna, and finally Budapest. It was not a nonstop from Nashville to Vienna. Anyone flying from the US to Eastern Europe has got to understand it's not like flying to common tourist destination cities in Western Europe such as Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Barcelona, etc.

Now that you mention it, my first river cruise started in Budapest, and I connected through Vienna. In any event, it's not Spain.

I've found the best and most numerous connections from the US to Eastern Europe are thru Germany, not Spain, Italy, France, etc.

What ship are you sailing?

You wouldn't sail a cruise line just because they don't have room service breakfast on the last morning? How was customer service otherwise?

Only one device may be connected at one time....will that work for your family?

I thought it was crowded everywhere. No way to avoid it.

Thank you for correcting me. In any event, I think the OP's husband may feel out of place in a tux on today's HAL.

@LAFFNVEGAS, HAL is consistently inconsistent. 😁

No tux or an evening gown has been required on HAL for a long time.

@Suzcruz57, I'm not staying at a HAL hotel. The transfers can be purchased on HAL's website independent of a hotel reservation. The morning of the cruise, I'll take the hotel's airport shuttle back to the Seattle-Tacoma airport, and go to Arrivals to find the HAL rep and board the bus to Vancouver. I disagree with @bennybear. Depending on the airline schedule from your home city and your budget, it can make a lot of sense to fly into Seattle.

If I relied on CC reviews, I would have never sailed around South America on the Oosterdam.