Cruising Tip # 2 Booking Tours

    T,he cruise ship offers dozens of tours-to ruins, swim with the dolphins or stingrays, etc.  I rarely book a tour from the ship.  They inflate the price about 50% so I usually go ashore and negotiate.  There is one exception to this!  I will not book a tour myself , that travels deep into the countryside-perhaps to see Aztec Ruins.  Here is why:  if you book a tour from the ship-and the bus breaks down (which it might if you saw some of the buses) the ship will wait for you.  Book yourself and you could miss the boat (no pun intended).