Well, this may be putting the cart before the horse, well in our case, the hotel before the ship, but we have booked the Le Palais De La Mediterranee for two nights pre-cruise. Just one step closer. Also started looking at airfares. We would prefer to be doing an AA/BA flight to Nice so that we may be able to use miles to upgrade our TA flight. However, Lufthansa looks like a better option and has better flight times. We have no miles with them or any partners, but maybe we can transfer our AMEX miles over.