9-night DCL Mediterranean with Greek Isles cruise - Day 5: Tarquinia and Embarkation

Tarquinia and Embarkation

We got up, ate breakfast and finished packing in preparation for our 9 AM pickup. I had hired a driver (Andrea Amore, recommended) to pick us all up, take us to Tarquinia to see the Etruscan Necropoli there and then drop us off at the port and Dru off at the airport. We arrived at the site of the tombs around 10:30 AM and spent a little over an hour. There is also a museum in town that houses all the things taken out of the tombs and a few of the tomb walls themselves that they removed to preserve. Each little hill housed a different tomb and could be accessed by a flight of stairs and then there was glass and a light switch to illuminate the tomb to see the decorations. It was, again, very hot and there was no shade at all but the tombs were actually really cool and some of the artwork was absolutely stunning. We saw most of the tombs (but not all) and when we were done we called the driver back and asked if he could take us to a cafe in town. 

We all had coffee and snacks for about thirty minutes before we had our driver take us to the port which was only about twenty minutes away. We said goodbye to Dru, which was sad. I wish we could have kept adventuring together. Luggage drop, security, and check in was pretty smooth and straightforward and they were already on open boarding when we got there. When we got onboard it was 1:30 PM and rooms were already ready so we were able to drop our carry on bags into the room before going up to Cabanas for lunch. 

After lunch we returned to the room and organized some of what we could out of our carry on bags, we relaxed a little bit and Emmaline went to Vibe to get checked in for the activities there. Soon it was time for the muster drill so we went to that at 4 PM and then Emmaline went to the sail away party and Roger and I went back to the room to see if we had bags. We did so we unpacked before going up to Deck 11 to snack on some fruit (as I write this, it looks like we literally just had lunch in the previous sentence but I assure you that this is hours later, but also, it’s vacation and it seems like you’re being awfully judgey here about this snack thing.)

We finished up a little more unpacking and then it was time to get ready for dinner (don’t say it, it seems like we literally just ate multiple times in the previous paragraph). First we stopped off at Palo to see if we could request our server from January. We could and she was there and saw us and recognized us. How do they do that? Crazy. At dinner we were happy to have Jay as our server for the fifth time! We first met Jay nearly 10 years ago on the Magic when we sailed with my parents and we’ve requested him every time we’re on a ship that he’s on. We’ve sailed now 15 times with DCL and had Jay for a third of those sailings. 

After dinner we caught the Victrophonics performance in the atrium. They are a fun musical group that uses performers from the Walt Disney Theatre as singers and a tapper. We decided that one of them looked like he was going to be playing Aladdin (spoiler alert: we were right). Then we made a stop at Guest Services to activate our DisneyBands. They were showing live action Lilo and Stitch in the Walt Disney Theatre that evening and we didn’t really have any interest so we returned to the room where I jotted down some notes, wrote up a bit of trip report and relaxed. Emmaline went to karaoke after that and we went to the 10:30 adult-only magic show in The Tube. It was fine. I feel like we’ve seen a lot of the same tricks before with other magicians.

Then it was time for bed because it was a long day!