Marcie/Kristin - do you know how easy it is to get cabs into Taromina and back? We may just opt to cancel our "transfer" tickets and do a cab.
Kristin - your story makes me nervous about the bus.
I agree I don't understand why they would charge for a shuttle. The only other time we paid for a "transfer" was in Florence, and we just bought the "transfer into and back" and did Florence on our own - but it was an hour and a half from Livorno to Florence.
