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"It is an interesting question.  We have been cruising (extensively) for over forty years and nearly always do our own thing in ports all over the world.  Sometimes we will join a few others on a private tour...but rarely (perhaps 1 out of 100 ports) will we do a cruise line excursion.  We have never missed the ship and we have never even met anyone who has missed a ship (unless it was deliberate).   We also help lots of folks who want to travel independently (ports and otherwise) and have met quite a few folks like the OP who almost seem to have an obsession about missing the ship.  For those folks, there is really no other option but to take a cruise line excursion.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tDW once told me that if had to take cruise line excursions she is not sure she would want to even cruise (we sometimes cruise over 100 days a year).  To say we dislike large cruise line bus excursions would be an understatement :).  \n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tHank\n "
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