As part of any cruise, you are offered a huge range of excursions organised by the company. These always involve getting 70 odd people on a bus and carting them round to see the sights.
This is not what Lee and I like to do. We like to get an appreciation for the people and the city we are going to. I don't want to go up to the edge of a volcano, and I certainly don't want to dunk myself in a hot spring.
Nobody (else) is going to see this body naked!!I even bought my swimmers, but never used the pool, partly because the weather wasn't nice enough for it, and mostly for the reason quoted above. I could have gone in the early hours of the morning, but didn't quite make it.
Another thing which would turn some people off about excursions, is that they are soooooo expensive. The trouble with P & O is that they only want you to do their excursions, and so if you want to do your own thing, they don't always let you know that other things are available.
We had the most wonderful local "bus" trip in Olden, (see later post), which was also enjoyed by everyone else with us, but we had to find all that out for ourselves, by approaching those who ran it, after we got off the ship. And it was much cheaper than the organised ones, and perhaps just as interesting.
It's not because we couldn't afford any of the ship's tours, but we just don't like being crammed in on a large bus, and then you don't always get to see what's going on.
So, if you do a cruise like this, check out what is offered, but also do some research about other possibilities.
One thing you can do, is check out Google Earth, go to the area you're interested in, and click on some of the photos other people have taken. That way you can perhaps see some things you might want to also see.
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