Information Sheet for 13-night Holyland Cruise on Oct. 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

In an attempt to answer some of your questions with regard to the Holyland trip, I am listing some of the details of the trip. First, let me say that I will be escorting this trip along with another agent. My itinerary includes flying out of Portland, Or. on Saturday, Oct. 2 and staying at the Crown Plaza St. Peters which is where everyone will be booked whether you are doing the pre-cruise 2-night option or the 1-night option. 

Insurance – The price of your cruise includes Travel Protection Insurance and coverage such as trip cancellation, trip interruption, travel delay, missed connection, medical or dental expense and emergency medical transportation. Our price covers only the cruise portion. If you would like travel protection for your airfare, it will be an additional $50/per person.

Airfare – Celebrity Cruises has an Air Department where you can put in your reservation number and get a quote for your air. It is listed on their website at www.celebrity.com and it is under “choice air”. For the return air from Rome, please do not book your air before

10:00 am on Oct. 18.

Optional Land Packages – We are offering a pre-cruise 2-night land package in Rome for the nights of Oct. 3 & 4 that includes 2 nights at the Crown Plaza St. Peters, your choice of 2 sightseeing tours that are listed on our “Preference Sheet”, and transfers from the hotel to the cruise terminal and from the ship on Oct. 18 to the airport. That is priced at $598/pp.

We are also offering a 1-night hotel package on Oct. 4 and transfers as listed above for $298/pp. If you will be flying out of Rome on Oct. 19 instead of Oct. 18, a number of us will be staying at the Courtyard by Marriott at the Rome Airport.

Dining – Our group is currently signed up for “Celebrity Select Dining” which allows you to be seated anytime in the Main Dining Room for dinner. You have the option of making dinner reservations for each night of your cruise ahead of time or once onboard with the Maitre’d. Prepaid gratuities of $136.50/pp (includes all gratuities including cabin steward) will be required when choosing this option and will be included in your final payment in July.

Transfers – The transfers included in our optional packages are only for the transfers from our hotel in Rome to the cruise terminal and from the cruise terminal to the airport. The packages do not include the transfer from the Rome Airport to the Hotel since everyone is arriving on different airlines and at different times. I will be sending information on transfers from the airport to hotel in the future.

Stay in Rome – Optional 2-day Package – You will be departing from the U.S. on Saturday, Oct. 2, arriving in Rome on Sunday, Oct. 3. After you arrive in Rome and check-in at the

Crown Plaza St. Peters, the rest of the day is at leisure. I suggest that you do not go to bed which will prolong any jet lag that you are experiencing. If you would like to see Rome, I suggest you do the Hop-on/Hop-Off bus that is offered. The cost is $32/pp for 48 hours. Also, you might want to have an early dinner and go to bed early so that you can get a good night’s sleep and be refreshed the next morning. On Monday, Oct. 4, all the people who have signed up for the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel will be doing that tour in the morning around 9:15 am. The Appian Way/Catacombs Tour will be scheduled for the afternoon, unless you are doing the “Rome by Night” tour. The evening is at leisure as well as the next morning, Oct. 5, when our motor coach will pick us up at the hotel and transport us to the cruise terminal sometime around noon.