Sunday, June 26, 2011

The Game Plan

Posted by Courtenay at 1:48 AM

We arrive in Rome, Italy on Thursday at 3:20PM. After clearing immigration and getting our bags, we should be on our way to the hotel by 4:20. Now, factor in traffic and what should be a 35 minute drive will likely be closer to an hour. This puts us at the hotel around 5:30PM. Perhaps we should check in, dump our bags, and head out to explore a bit. The sun will set about 8PM so we will have a few daylight hours for some sightseeing. In Italy, the dinner time begins between 8 and 9 so after we've seen a few things we can have a nice dinner, grab a bottle of wine for the room and head back to the hotel at a reasonable hour. We have to be up and ready to go by 8:30AM on Friday!






Our tour on Friday will only be a few hours, so we should try to see some of Rome on Thursday evening. We can either walk to Vatican City and visit St. Peter's Basilica (but not the Sistine Chapel), or we can take a taxi and head over towards the Trevi Fountain. From there we can go see the Pantheon or the Spanish Steps.





On Friday morning our driver will pick us up at the hotel and take us to Vatican City for our tour of the Sistine Chapel where we have entrance tickets for 9AM. From there our guide will take us to some other sights in Rome - perhaps to the Colosseum and Roman Forum, or whatever we did not see on Thursday evening.

We will head to Civitavecchia by 1 or 1:30 so we should be on the ship no later than 3:00PM on Friday.

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