Just back from Sicilian Spelndors

[Ski Mom 2]

Five years ago we paid 65 euros for a van with 4 people to pick us up from the airport in Rome and take us to the apartment we rented in the Piazza Navona. Granted it was 5 years ago but 160 euros seems high to me.

[kbella]

Five years ago we paid 65 euros for a van with 4 people to pick us up from the airport in Rome and take us to the apartment we rented in the Piazza Navona. Granted it was 5 years ago but 160 euros seems high to me.

Agreed. 160 is really high. Last month we paid 47 euro for a private car for 2 people from FCO to our central Rome hotel. From the port to the airport we paid 119 euro for a private car which met us at the port luggage area which is right past the gangway. It was very convenient.

[Riverroad]

kbella, what company did you use for your transfers?

[gcmv]

we tendered in Gozo, Sorrento, Lipari and one other. I cant even remember. The only really rough one was Gozo.

Capri was the fourth port (due to a local law tender boats are operated from the island and not by WS).

 

Question about tenders - you mention they are precarious- could you elaborate?

Gozo was so rough that only one tender was able go to the harbour - our captain decided to go back to Malta to have a second chance to see the highlights of this beautiful island. The tender-passengers did their Gozo excursion and came back to the Breeze by ferry in the afternoon.

 

Last month we paid 47 euro for a private car for 2 people from FCO to our central Rome hotel. From the port to the airport we paid 119 euro for a private car which met us at the port luggage area which is right past the gangway. It was very convenient.

We used CivitavecchiaCabService for our transfer FCO-Civi. Excellent company with a small shuttle-bus. Cost: 69,-- Euros for the two of us togther. Two passengers of a Royal Caribbean Cruise joined us.

 

Also- finding it hard to arrange reasonably priced excursions on my own- what is your opinion of the Windstar excursions?

We did everything on our own (except the WS-included tour at Porto Empedocle) - as we like to do things indivudually.

 

Catania: Outstanding walking Etna Tour with Fabio: http://www.natoursicily.it/en/index.php

Malta: 2,5 hours tour of the three cities with http://www.rolling-geeks.com in the morning and a walk inside the old town in the afternoon

Trappani: Cable Car to Erice - great views from top of the hill!

Lipari: Two hours taxi-tour with http://www.liparitaxiantonio.com - Antonio was a great driver with basic english language skills but worth every Euro!

Capri: As we've been to Capri several times before, we wanted to escape from the crowded places of Capri and Anacapri. So we decided to take a very early local bus from the harbour to Anacapri and did a coastal walk to Faro lightower and went back by local bus. During our walk we met ONE single man!!! It was outstanding!

we tendered in Gozo, Sorrento, Lipari and one other. I cant even remember. The only really rough one was Gozo.

Capri was the fourth port (due to a local law tender boats are operated from the island and not by WS).

 

Question about tenders - you mention they are precarious- could you elaborate?

Gozo was so rough that only one tender was able go to the harbour - our captain decided to go back to Malta to have a second chance to see the highlights of this beautiful island. The tender-passengers did their Gozo excursion and came back to the Breeze by ferry in the afternoon.

 

Last month we paid 47 euro for a private car for 2 people from FCO to our central Rome hotel. From the port to the airport we paid 119 euro for a private car which met us at the port luggage area which is right past the gangway. It was very convenient.

We used CivitavecchiaCabService for our transfer FCO-Civi. Excellent company with a small shuttle-bus. Cost: 69,-- Euros for the two of us togther. Two passengers of a Royal Caribbean Cruise joined us.

 

Also- finding it hard to arrange reasonably priced excursions on my own- what is your opinion of the Windstar excursions?

We did everything on our own (except the WS-included tour at Porto Empedocle) - as we like to do things indivudually.

 

Catania: Outstanding walking Etna Tour with Fabio: http://www.natoursicily.it/en/index.php

Malta: 2,5 hours tour of the three cities with http://www.rolling-geeks.com in the morning and a walk inside the old town in the afternoon

Trappani: Cable Car to Erice - great views from top of the hill!

Lipari: Two hours taxi-tour with http://www.liparitaxiantonio.com - Antonio was a great driver with basic english language skills but worth every Euro!

Capri: As we've been to Capri several times before, we wanted to escape from the crowded places of Capri and Anacapri. So we decided to take a very early local bus from the harbour to Anacapri and did a coastal walk to Faro lightower and went back by local bus. During our walk we met ONE single man!!! It was outstanding!

http://www.capri.com/en/e/towers-and-forts-2

 

Hope this was helpful ... ;)

Edited October 4, 2016 by gcmv

[kbella]

kbella, what company did you use for your transfers?

 

We used Rome Limousines also known as Bobs Limos. It had very good ratings on Trip Advisor.