Our oldest daughter lives in the UK with her children. My wife has a bad back which makes long economy class flights excruciating. We use repositioning cruises to go back and forth to Europe. We’ll fly one way and take the cruise back the other way. The cost for both of us in a balcony room for a 14-17 day trip across the Atlantic is often less than one full price economy airline ticket. Just an amazing deal.
So, shore excursions don’t mean a whole lot to use. We’d planned to fly to Manchester UK this November then after two weeks take flight to Rome and then take the Jewel of the Seas from Rome to Galveston, stopping only twice, once in Barcelona and once in Tenerefe.
We were suppose to stop in Tenerife on a TA next moth...That cruise got cancelled back in April...