Hi Philip, welcome to LCT.

As to your cruise, I can't help much with Kusadasi, as we have not yet been there. Your planned Capri and Santorini excursions sound great, next time we are in Sorrento Capri is where we are going.

In Rome, you may want to consider a private driver - assuming you only have the one day, you can get picked up and away from the ship earlier and back when you want to, as well you can usually decided exactly what you want to do. Last year two groups of us used LimoinRome, we had Claudio for one van and Luigi for the other, www.claudio@limoninrome.com, they were very good, very prompt and very knowledgeable and took us to a couple of places we never would have seen otherwise. Some of us in both groups had been to Rome, some had not. In Taromina, we just took the tender into Naxos, got a cab with another couple and went to Taromina, which is truly one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, we walked around the town and worked our way up to the Greco Roman Theater and explored that, then just walked around some more and had lunch before going back to the ship.

We also spent two nights in Athens, and on Sunday my husband and I had a 1/2 day private tour, but they also have full days, great company Spiros Tours, www.sprirostours@yahoo.com, we had Jimmy for our driver and he was great and knew just when to go where, so you could give them a try. Spiros also made a dinner reservation for 12 of us on Sunday night at Psara Taverna, and I highly recommend that restaurant. His website has lots of wonderful information, www.athenstaxi.net.

Hope that is some help and you have a wonderful trip. Be sure to post under the SeaMail thread while you are gone.