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In this guide, Rick Steves focuses on some of the grandest sights in Europe. As always, he has a plan to help you have a meaningful cultural experience while you’re there—even with just a few hours in port. Inside you'll find one-day itineraries for sightseeing at or near the major Mediterranean ports of call, including: Barcelona, Marseille, Toulon, Nice, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and MonacoFlorence, Rome, Naples, and VeniceDubrovnik, Split, Athens, Mykonos, and SantoriniIstanbul and Ephesus Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports explains how to get into town from the cruise terminal, shares sightseeing tips, and includes self-guided walks and tours. You'll learn which destinations are best for an excursion—and which you can confidently visit on your own. You'll also get tips on booking a cruise, plus hints for saving time and money on the ship and in port. You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when cruising the Mediterranean.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
not complete but detailed,
This review is from: Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports (Paperback)
The book is quite detailed but does not cover all the mediterranean cruise ports. On the other end, it is a very good source of information on the cruise port that it covers.It gives you alternatives that easily save you the price of the book in any single afternoon. It is a must for cruisers.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Kindle Edition?,
This review is from: Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports (Paperback)
Will there be a Kindle edition of this book anytime soon? We are great fans of Rick Steve's books but would like to have the convenience of an electronic version.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (40 customer reviews) 61 of 63 people found the following review helpful
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right on target,
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This review is from: Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports (Paperback)
I have yet to even finish this 1000 page book, but know already that its going to be invaluable for my Mediterranean cruise in October. It does exactly what I need; tells you how to get to the places you want to see in the fastest and most efficient way possible, offers invaluable insight into the idiosyncrasies of each port destination, and of the cruise ship experience in general, and provides very practical guidance all around. This is going to be my cruise ship "bible," without a doubt, I will be carrying this little thing with me wherever I go. This book is targeted at the adventure travelers who want to make the most of every port city. Rick Steves offers invaluable advice as to which excursions are worth paying for and which are a run fro your money. If you're going on a cruise to the Med, this is the best book there is. Thank goodness someone finally wrote a practical book that is worth the money. I've seen what else is out there--why waste $20 plus for a book of color photos of sights you're going to see in person? Why waste $20 on a book that mostly gives you a history lesson? I can get that on the internet for free. This book does for me what I can't do; provides all the inside advice for each port that only a seasoned traveler would know, that will streamline, simplify, and enhance my own experience!
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy this book - it pays for itself!,
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This review is from: Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports (Paperback)
I am a huge fan of Rick Steves' books. My husband and I enjoy cruising and will try to arrive a few days before we leave in order to explore the town of embarkation on our own. We've used Rick's books for independent touring of London, Barcelona, Rome and Naples and found them to be perfect for our needs. This year we had a 14 day Mediterranean cruise planned for October - I bought this book and it was just what we needed to plan port days on our own in several of the cities we visited. Previously we almost always took a shore excursion. While pricey, we've lucked out with very good tour guides. However we also wanted to go out on our own - to do that backdoor traveling Rick encourages. With Rick's new book we toured Venice (his vaporetto tour of the Grand Canal is excellent), Corfu, Mykonos, Split and Dubrovnik on our own - and we enjoyed every moment! Even if this book results in you buying one less shore excursion, it will have paid for itself. The book is terrific - only one of our ports was not covered (Messina Sicily) but we had already planned on taking one of the ship's shore excursions for that port. Buy this book without hesitation - his recommendations are spot on too when it comes to restaurants, best gelato in town, locations of public WC's, and my particular favorite - his walking tours.
25 of 31 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
My ports not included,
By V. Edwards - Published on Amazon.com
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I find Rick Steves to be very knowledgeable and helpful with his advice. He explains things in such an easy to understand way that some of the nervousness you may have had about exploring a foreign place for the first time goes away. As a first attempt at doing a cruise destinations book, it isn't bad. I was looking forward to bringing this guidebook along on our cruise. However, I was disappointed to discover that only 2 out of the 4 ports we will be visiting were included in the book. It didn't include Messina in Sicily or Kusadasi in Turkey. We will be travelling on the popular Royal Caribbean line, not a private cruise company going to exotic out of the way locations. Given that, I felt like the book wasn't a good value for me. The two ports that are included are very detailed with lots of helpful tips. I referenced the website mediterranean-cruise-ports-easy.com for those ports not included in the book. It would be helpful if the Amazon information section explaining what the book is about included the ports that are covered in the book.
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