I have no problem taking a taxi to the ship if it will save hundreds of dollars. If Regent charged like hotels do instead of per person, the price would be right about where it would be if you were to book the hotel on your own.

Most time, we are traveling with LCT friends so if the port is far away, we can arrange transport for groups of us. We arranged our own limo service before MUSH and I am positive that our limo to the hotel and the cost of the hotel was much less than Regents package.

I think the only place where I would use a RSSC pre or post cruise hotel would be if I were sailing on the PG.