Hi All!
I will be on this ship with you. It's me and my mother. We are doing this after several days in Provence touring. We get in to Barcelona on May 31 (taking the train over from France if I can ever figure out how to book that LOL!)
We are staying at the Rennisance the night before the cruise and I will probably pay for the
DCL transfers, but we are planning to get on the ship as late as possible. We have done a few other trips on the Magic (this is my 5th DCL trip and 3 of the prior trips were on the Magic, two of them with my mom) so we don't need to tour the ship and hopefully I can get Palo when my booking window opens (we want to do a brunch....)
Luckily for us we have done several of the "ports" before so we are planning to do a fairly "slow" touring plan on our own everyplace.
Planning the train to the Cinque Terra and touring a few towns. In Rome I think we will take the train to the city and just wander around. We were there two years ago and did all the biggies for the 2nd time so.. In Naples we are going to stay in the city. We toured Pompeii on our last trip and it was great, but there were some things we didn't get to see in Naples on our one day (Just a hint if you are doing this the churches all close for several hours middday!)