Thanks for your responses. I'm actually the pilot's wife, and, yes, he has flown to Europe many times which may explain why he never wanted to go there for vacation. Notice we are going to get on a ship, meaning our time on land can be very short. He's just not a great fan of Europe, but I talked him into visiting this way.

That's why I'm trying hard to plan ahead and make the non-rev travel as painless as possible. After registering here I read through a lot of the comments and found some good insights. As we all know, the trick to successful non-revving is tedious planning of possible alternate routes and being as flexible as Pokey and Gumby. We've had great experiences through many years going to many places, but never to Europe.

I was just looking for some of you who have passed that way and hoping you'd share what you've learned.