Jewel of the Seas May 1 Transatlantic

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wwinfl91

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Hi all,

I'm Warren and with my wife, Trisha, we are traveling on the Jewel of the Seas on it's transatlantic trip that starts on May 1 2005. We were looking into what we were going to do on the stop in La Harve on Friday May 13th and decided to see what private tours were available to Paris from this port. We found one with MBT, Minibus Tours that is interesting.

They offer a tour for 9 hours, 2 hours travel each way, and 5 hours in Paris. They visit the following sites:
The Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, The Louvre, Notre Dame, Opera Garnier, Montmartre, Champs Elysées, Place Vendome... and Lunch on your own. They will recommend someplace for lunch but you have to pay for it yourself.

Their prices are as follows: 550 euros for 1 to 4 people. 700 euros for 5 to 8 people.

This price includes Transportation by private minibus, Services of your English speaking driver and courrier.
Driver meals, Tolls and car park

It does not include:
Admission fees and meals.

The company's web site is at the following URL:

http://www.minibus-tours.com/index.html

We are looking at this as an alternative to the tours to Paris offered by RCI. It becomes very competitive if we can find 3 other couples or 6 other people who are interested in joining us for the trip.

I can be contacted at the following email address if you are interested in sharing a tour at this port.

wwinfl@email.com

By the way we did this kind of tour at 4 ports in the Med in 2003 and had a great time on those tours,

Thanks in advance for reading and hopefully for some of you responding to this post.

Have a great next cruise.
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wwinfl91

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I'm very suprised no one else on this board is going to be on this sold out cruise. Oh well I tried.

Have a great next cruise.
 
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joytravels

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We are also traveling on the Jewel of the Seas Transatlantic on May 1. We will be with another couple from our condo development in Florida, but they eat early and we eat late. We are trying to plan some sidetrips on our own at the various ports. If anyone has any ideas, please let us know.

When I was in Lisbon a few years ago, we met someone on cruise message board and did a wonderful private car/driver in Portugal who took us all over Portugal for three days. I believe it cost us around $75 a couple per day and was wonderful, very customized for our interests. I would like to go to Obidos in Portugal. It's 70km north of Lisbon so should be pretty easy to get to. I haven't done my homework on it yet, though!

We USUALLY do the cruise tours if they are BIT more expensive just for the convenience, but sometimes you can really save money by hiring taxi or car/driver and have a more customized and usually LONGER time to enjoy the ports.

JoyTravels@aol.com
 
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wwinfl91

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Hi Joytravels

We also live in Florida, Orlando area. I suspect there are a lot of Floridans on this cruise.

If you get a chance go out and check out the Yahoo group site mentioned below that I set up for this cruise.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/warrenm_us/

There are links on the above site for each of the ports we are going to visit you can use for research.

We are still looking for 2 more people and maybe 4 more for a land based tour to Paris if you are interested. We are trying to decide what we are going to do in Lisbon so we may want to talk with you about options there.

You can reach me directly at the email account listed above for additional information.

Thanks for replying to my original post on this board. I was beginning to worry no else was on the cruise.
No more seriously from what I understand the cruise is sold out or very close to that.

Have a great next cruise.
 
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wwinfl91

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Well still just the two of us on this board. That sorts of surprises me.

I will bump it once more and see what happens.

Have a great next cruise
 
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