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Originally Posted by Mikala43
Yeah, we just paid $1200 from West Coast to Scotland. That includes the fee for luggage, and to get the seats we wanted.
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Is that the airfare for one or two tickets? We were paying <$600/person to go to Europe while living in NY but airfares to Europe from the West Coast cost at least twice as much. We paid ~$2100 in RT airfares last September for our trip to Italy from Boise.
Back to the OP, a friend of mine took a Viking River Cruise in Europe few years ago and really liked it. We cruised with RCI to Croatia and Greece while in Italy last fall. We paid something like $2200/2 for 7 days. Wines, service charges and land tours added something like $1K. The total cost of our 15 days trip (7 days cruise, 4 days in Venice, 3 days in Florence, 1 day in Bologna + land transportation) was about $7K.
It was the first time we were on a big cruise ship. It was much smoother than being on smaller ships (we did quite a few of live-aboard scuba diving trips before) and there were lots of food and entertainments but it was quite 'impersonal'. Not sure whether we want to be on a big cruise ship again especially when we want to spend more time exploring attractions on land.
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