Cinque Terre Princess Tours

[Shogun]

Hi All

 

Looks like Princess tours will have an advantage over private tours,

 

with the introduction of new ticket system to limit tourist numbers

 

to the 5 villages,

 

starts next year,

 

tickets will need to be bought on line and will

 

be available as a combined railway tourist ticket, there is going

 

to be a new app that will advise of numbers and tell you what villages

 

will be closed to new visitors with out a ticket,

 

appears the issue has been very high numbers of cruise ship passengers

 

dropping in for a few hours then going away, the local council want to attract

 

longer stay tourists, that use, hotels, restaurants and move inland to winery's

 

no details yet of cost of tickets.

 

yours Shogun

[GweninTX]

We are going next year and I have been trying to decide if we should buy a Princess excursion or a private tour. This may help me decide to buy Princess! Thanks for the info!

[moki'smommy]

I expect that this will be worked out in much the same way tickets all over Italy have been. The big tour companies, whether they book thru the cruise ships or independently will buy up bunches of tickets and the people who tried to do something totally "on their own" will be left standing in line or not get in.

 

This is no different than the "priority" tickets in Florence to see the David or in Rome to get into the Vatican. If you do a cruise line tour, they have pre-purchased the "bypass the line" tickets. If you go on your own, you'd better know how to get those tickets on line in advance.

[caribill]

We are going next year and I have been trying to decide if we should buy a Princess excursion or a private tour. This may help me decide to buy Princess! Thanks for the info!

 

A private tour booked in advance should purchase the tickets for you. However, I suspect they will want you to pay up front for those tickets with no refund if the ship cannot make port.

 

It is doing it totally on your own that you need to worry about personally getting those tickets in advance.