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| Cruising the Mediterranean: A Guide to the Ports of Call (Crusing the Mediterranean) | 
 enlarge | Author: Larry H. Ludmer
Publisher: Hunter Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 993276
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 310
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1588432858
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91822
EAN: 9781588432858
ASIN: 1588432858
Publication Date: June 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A concise guide for cruisers, with ship details given in easy-to-read format and no-nonsense descriptions of ports en route. You can see at a glance the itinerary, passenger/crew ratio, dining options, berth layout and capacity. Ludmer profiles the shore excursions thoroughly. He points out what you can afford to miss and what you should make every effort to see. Major ports covered are: Lisbon, Gibraltar, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Monte Carlo, Livorno/Pisa, Rome, Naples, Venice, Athens, Malta, Istanbul.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Includes some information that I didn't find elsewhere August 24, 2004
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
While I have to agree with the previous reviewer that the Ship Itineraries section of this book could easily have been dipensed with, I did find some value in this book, taken as it was. The most major ports have a map (not detailed) that gives you some idea of the locations of major sites of interest in relation to each other. I did find this helpful in planning what it was reasonable to expect to be able to get to. It gives an opinion on what ports are best explored on your own, and which are best seen through a purchased excursion. It also gives some tips on getting around; but these are not always consistently detailed for each location. "Highlights Tours" are provided for those ports that you would want to explore yourself.
I found reading this book to be like sitting down and having a conversation with someone who knows these ports...not always detailed enough, or consistent in information, but interesting mostly because it gives you a bit of an opinion on which to base choices and some information that I didn't get elsewhere about the ports that I visited.
 Not much beyond what's in cruise ship brochures May 10, 2003
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
Pages 1-134 contain rapidly outdated information--best got off the web on what cruise lines go where.Larry Ludmer then fails to deliver on his promise (p152, Cruising the Med) to indicate the location of each port and give some information on getting there. Two examples: Larry please tell us how equipped with a Eurail pass, one gets
1) from the Venice train station to the cruise terminal,
2) from Livorno cruise terminal to Florence??
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