Oriana shore tours

A little bit of excitement here on Friday. A list of all the shore tours available for all the ports we visit became available from P&O. We had already seen an incomplete list - but no prices. Now we know what we will be up for so can do some more planning. Pricewise - they are not TOO bad. I think that we will be benefiting from the good AUD/UKP exchange rates (hope they last). The most expensive tours averaged around 75 UKP - not so long ago this would have equated to about $200 AUD, but right now it only is $130AUD. Considering that such a tour involves a full day (up to 9 hours) and what appears to be a GOOD lunch, the price appears to me to be much better than the shore tours that P&O Australia have. We are planning to take 10 tours - some of the Asian ports are quite a long way from the associated city, eg Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh city and others are sufficiently "alien" to us that we prefer to travel safely in "numbers" eg. Sharm El-Sheikh. We were going to take a tour to Fatima in Portugal - rather than wonder the streets of Lisbon - but after reading quite a bit of negativity about the site, we have decided to see Sintra instead. This will allow us to get out into the Portuguese countryside a little - and we should have time for a few hours around Lisbon as well.  We will have to wait a couple of months yet for the Arcadia tours. Hope they come out before we depart on Oriana. By the way, we don't pay for these tours until the end of the cruise - they are added to the other costs we spend while on board and presented as an overall account at the end. What did we used to do before Credit Cards??