After yesterday's trolley bus tour, now we know where things are, we took time this morning to take a closer look at a few of the features around Naples. Like all cities in the USA, Naples adopts the street/avenue grid system with the streets running parallel north to south and the avenues running west to east. Gulf Shore Boulevard runs parallel with the coast so is also 1st Street. We drove the two and a bit miles from our hotel down this exclusive and quiet...

Despite departure times of guests being staggered depending on individual circumstances, everyone has to vacate their stateroom by 7am regardless of whether your departure slot is 07:30 or 1030. For this reason disembarkation day can be chaos with all passengers, hand luggage in tow, crowding the breakfast buffet, lounge seats are at a premium and the customer service staff working overtime as those passengers have last minutes queries on their final account. Our...