A one way air fare is involved. It was suggested to me that because round trip fares are much lower than one way fares, we should book return and not use the outbound portion. This is foolish because non use will cancel the return portion, or pay the extra cost. Just a warning to cruisers.

Why not do the cruise air and avoid the hassle?

We have many air miles which allow an upgrade. Unfortunately, they cannot be used for the cruise air ?

Have you tried booking the round-trip in reverse, thus making Barcelona your originating city?

Yes, but it is about the same.

Neville, I don't think anyone recommended you not use the outbound. I think the suggestion was that you book roundtrip and only use the part of the ticket that you need. It has always been an airline rule that if you miss a segment on a ticket that the remaining segments are cancelled. So, if you do this you have to make sure that the segments that you do not use are the last segments, not the beginning segments. Does this make sense yet to you? Book the segment that you actually want to fly first in order. Book the part you will not use as the last segment. Don't tell the airline employees that this is your plan because it is not allowed by their contracts of carriage. Good luck, Debbie

I have straightened out the situation. We booked AA, one way, and used a small number of miles to upgrade.
NOW. Are there any LCTer's on this cruise from Ft.Laud. to Barcelona leaving April 30th. ?

Hi Neviboy. Susan and I will also be on the full 14 day cruise. Any ideas of what to do in the Canary Islands? We look forward to meeting you!

Susan and Jeff, Neviboy - if your Canary Island stop is Lanzarote - do the South Island tour with the Camel ride, it was a hoot!!!

Our port is Funchal. I have quite a lot of information on various activities and guides, etc. some from the East-West cruisers. Their photos tell us where to go !!
Horta in the Azores has a couple of interesting stops.
We have friends in Malaga and in Valencia, and will leave Barcelona on debarkation day.
We live near the port and so if you stay overnight in FLL we can meet. It is so far away
timewise !!!!

In Funchal they have a sled ride from the top of the hill down to the bottom..lots of fun!!
Jan

The bobsled ride was a wild, crazy and fun thing as well - forgot about that.