On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:30:35 -0500, Jim Watkins wrote:

All three of these lines have attractive itineraries. We'd like to
visit St. Petersburg and Amsterdam as a start or finish would be
great. We're talking 10-12 days. We not picky, but enjoy luxury and
can afford most at the Concierge Veranda Level. Any advice?

Also excursion advice? Thanks

(Two couples traveling together, fit but 61-63 years old). Haven't
cruised in 20 years, but safari, other land stuff almost yearly.)

Luxury?

Crystal, Oceania, Celebrity.

For excursions I recommend private tours for St. Petersburg. We also
did a private tour to Berlin. The company we used for St. Petersburg
TJ Travel arranged our Berlin tour at a discount for using them for
St. Petersburg. I recommend them highly but there are several other
companies that offer private tours to pick from that also have
excellent reputations on Cruise Critic and TripAdvisor. We arranged a
group of eight for the tour on the sailing's roll call on Cruise
Critic.

The rest of the ports you don't really need excursions.

And Charles-Chuckie, I don't appreciate your plagiarization of my
posts.