Pisa On Your Own From Livorno

We booked this bus transfer to the tower of Pisa with tickets to access the tower. Don't book tickets for the tower through the operator!!! The tower tickets have a timeslot, we missed our timeslot because the bus was late and they will not give a refund for this. The local tour operator representative was quite rude when I called to complain about this. She said that the bus was late because the cruise ship was late, and that we should have still had plenty of time to make our timeslot. We booked this bus for 1:40pm. The cruise ship was supposed to arrive at 09:30am, passengers were able to leave the ship at 09:40am, so the ship was maximum 10 minutes late. We arrived early for our bus at which time they told us our bus was not going to depart until 2:15pm. The bus did not pick us up until 2:30pm. We were dropped off at a parking lot at 3:15pm. We then walked 15 minutes to the tower, then we had to wait in line to drop off our back packs at a luggage drop off, because you're not allowed to take bags on the tower, then we lined up for the tower. When we arrived at the tower entrance it was 4:05pm, our ticket time was 3:45pm and the tower crew told us that our ticket expired at 4:00pm. The tour operator did not inform us that the ticket was going to expire at 4:00pm, if they did we could have at least tried to skip the line at the tower. The fact that the tour operator was not apologetic about this at all and basically said it was totally our fault, did not help.

Great value for money and central drop off-pick up point in Livorno for cruise passengers, with over two hours free time in Pisa.

excellent value, yes you need to get the shuttle bus to the town centre to connect with this bus at 5 euro each return but that's easy to find as its just off the cruise ship, the bus that took us from the town centre to Pisa was modern and had air conditioning, using this alternative saved me over £250 for the three of us ,based on the cruise ship alternative

Bus held back due to ship arriving late in to Livorno. Helpful staff and really straightforward transfer to Pisa. Free time in Pisa more than enough to visit key attractions.

Nobody wants to ride on the top level of the bus. Everyone fills up the bottom level and then people who probably need to sit on the lower level are forced to the top level.

Would not recommend. Take another excursion with a different company. Lack of communication, lack of instruction, surprise charges, was my experience and I didn't even get to go on this excursión because of those reasons. First I had asked several questions before the date of my tour the first question, Do you pick up at Port?, was answered with cancel your excursión. Now that didn't sit well with me but everyone else in my group didn't want to cancel because I saw that they did pick up at Port. I had to look again and throughly read how they picked up at the Cruise Port because I saw that they did before the buying excursión and they mention to take a shuttle bus but didn't mention that there was a extra cost associated that is not included in the tickets. Then I asked about the shuttle bus and if it had capability for a wheelchair, no response, my other questions were answered with silence as well. I went to the cruise port shuttle bus pick up line and the lady was charging everyone an extra 5 euros per person on a credit card machine but she only accepted Euros and there's no where in the port you can exchange. I had a good sized group and we didn't have enough euros for everyone so we couldn't take the excursión. None of the Taxi's that were there that did accept cards wanted to take my group to the bus pick up. Taxis there only want to take you straight to the towers or another excursion. We ended up paying again for a taxi to take us to the towers and lost our money for this tour.

As stated, this is just transport to/from Pisa. Nice bus and friendly assistants to help you. Once you get off the ship, you will take the port shuttle to center city (that's the only stop it makes and runs continuously while the ship is in port). The fare in June 2022 was 5 euro for the round trip. The port shuttle drops you off at the exact same spot your bus to pisa will leave. It sounds like a lot or logistics, but actually very easy and low stress.

We had a lot of spare time in Pisa; besides the tower there really isn't a lot else to see but it is a really easy and cheap way to see Pisa on your own!

This tour is simply a booking for a return bus ticket to the Pisa site. Its pricing is OK. We booked this for when our cruise ship visited the Livorno port. Two important things to understand with this bus transfer: - if connecting via a cruise ship, be aware that the area where you catch the bus is nowhere near the Livorno port, despite the instructions you receive when you book saying "just outside the port". You can't walk there (too far) however there is a shuttle bus close by the ship exit for 5 euro that will take you there as its first stop which is about a 10 min ride. Factor that in to make sure you don't miss the actual Pisa bus as we nearly did. We had to ask the shuttle bus contact to call ahead so the Pisa bus could wait for us. - when you arrive at Pisa, the buses don't actually stop very near the site. It is approx a 20 minute flat walk from where the bus drops you and the Pisa site. Again you need to factor in this walk when returning to the bus for pickup back to the port. Other than that, this is a bus transfer service and served its purpose to get to Pisa.

We got what the ship offered for 1/3 the price. Drop off and meeting point required a bit of a confusing walk or a 2 eu each way trolly shuttle.