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[quote=Anonymous]Definitely land based and we are a family that cruises.  I think the Med cruises have three distinct drawbacks —
1) many of the best cities are not accessible by cruise ship.  Like to to Rome you dock at cotivecchia and then take an hour bus ride to Rome.  In Spain. Madrid is inland as are a lot of the cool medieval cities like Avila, Toledo, Granada, etc.  the cruises basically take you to overwhelmed tourist locations.
2) for both these countries, rambling around is a big part of the experience.  Hard to do that with cruise itineraries.
3) for all of the med, the food is one of the highlights.  But with a cruise, you are paying for on board food that will be definitely worse than the food on land.

I will temper this buy saying that if you have a family member with allergies, a cruise might be worth it as you can control the food install so much more easily.

Also, I looked into potential cruises for our third trip to Europe … I decided that these would all be good options that would provide benefits a land trip would not:
— disney adventures Adriatic cruise (small ship depart from Venice, very pricey though)
— aza river cruise Danube 
— costa cruise from heel of boot Italy to Greece, Dubrovnik and Venice …. This is an Italian cruise line and after extensive research I decided their baseline “cruise food” looked a lot better than the American baseline “cruise food”.  [/quote]

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