Louise97
Mouseketeer
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- Dec 1, 2019
Day 5 is done, phew! It's probably the longest entry, since we had the port adventure and Pirate Night. Some additional thoughts:
I absolutely recommend visiting Pompeii, and I appreciated the ease of doing a DCL port adventure but I can see why so many people book a third party tour. I was glad to have a guide taking us around the ruins, but booking with a third party or going by ourselves would have given us more time actually seeing the sights and might have given us the time to do the museum in the afternoon. Pompeii is also really popular so it's very crowded - which is another reason why it was good to have someone to show us around.
I'd have really liked to do Herculaneum but it's closed on Wednesdays - if we were going back to this part of Italy again, that would be on my list to check out.
I'm sure our experience of Naples would be different if we hadn't been hot and tired by the time we got there, but it just seemed busy and noisy. And I say that as someone who is definitely a city girl! It might have felt less chaotic if we'd had more time to adjust. If it wasn't Pirate Night I'd have spent a bit longer in the city as the all aboard time wasn't until 7pm, but I'd been looking forward to dressing up and wanted to allow plenty of time for that. Flights from Scotland to Naples are much cheaper than a Disney cruise so that logic drove a lot of our decision-making on this trip.
Pirate Night was so much fun. My outfit (particularly my hat) took up so much room in my suitcase but it was worth it. We had such a great time! It just would have been nice if it had fallen on one of the days where we didn't have plans - on such a port intensive itinerary, it would have been good to do it on our day at sea. I guess the logic was no one had an early ashore time after the late night fireworks show.
I absolutely recommend visiting Pompeii, and I appreciated the ease of doing a DCL port adventure but I can see why so many people book a third party tour. I was glad to have a guide taking us around the ruins, but booking with a third party or going by ourselves would have given us more time actually seeing the sights and might have given us the time to do the museum in the afternoon. Pompeii is also really popular so it's very crowded - which is another reason why it was good to have someone to show us around.
I'd have really liked to do Herculaneum but it's closed on Wednesdays - if we were going back to this part of Italy again, that would be on my list to check out.
I'm sure our experience of Naples would be different if we hadn't been hot and tired by the time we got there, but it just seemed busy and noisy. And I say that as someone who is definitely a city girl! It might have felt less chaotic if we'd had more time to adjust. If it wasn't Pirate Night I'd have spent a bit longer in the city as the all aboard time wasn't until 7pm, but I'd been looking forward to dressing up and wanted to allow plenty of time for that. Flights from Scotland to Naples are much cheaper than a Disney cruise so that logic drove a lot of our decision-making on this trip.
Pirate Night was so much fun. My outfit (particularly my hat) took up so much room in my suitcase but it was worth it. We had such a great time! It just would have been nice if it had fallen on one of the days where we didn't have plans - on such a port intensive itinerary, it would have been good to do it on our day at sea. I guess the logic was no one had an early ashore time after the late night fireworks show.