Q – We read all of your web sites with great pleasure. Now, finally, we are planning a river cruise for 2018 that will allow us to maximize our interest in visiting sites of interest to Jewish travelers. We have, for rather painful personal reasons, an interest in the historical sites of World War Two….
Q – We have been looking over your reviews and, given our philosophy that we would rather take two river cruises than one ultra-deluxe river cruise, we are leaning toward Viking. We notice that you warn people that Scenic has mostly non-Americans on its ships. We wouldn’t want to run into that situation on Viking….
Q – On the recommendation of our agent, who says she knows you, we are looking at a cruise on a ship called the Misr in Egypt. This is going to be a 13-Day trip from Aswan to Cairo and we’ve already worked out all the silly safety concerns etc. We live in Baltimore, we…
Q – We are, for many of the reasons stated in your reviews, anxious to take our first Crystal Cruise – likely to Scandinavia and Russia next year. My mother-in-law has taken ill and it could be a long haul. I am wondering about whether or not Crystal will be understanding should we need to…
Q – Thank you for the best independent source of information on European River Cruises. My wife and I have booked our 4th cruise for 1 Aug. We have cruised with Uniworld (twice) and Viking and were happy with both lines. In August we are scheduled with Tauck. I expect we will not be…
Q – This is for my husband. He works very hard in the construction business based here in Passaic. A cruise to him is an opportunity to catch up on sleep. Our agent, who I think is part-time, has us looking at some of the top lines on your list and we are wondering, between…
Q – When you look at the three largest cruise lines, NCL, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean, you see a lot of heavy discounting going on. At the end of the day, how much can they make per passenger? Is it 3% or is it actually higher? I’m just curious. A – It really does vary…
Q – We enjoyed your site – spent three hours on it last night. I suspect we are younger than your average reader and we have taste buds that are still in their prime. We work them out fairly regularly in the Santa Monica area. We are going to do our first cruise this summer…
Q – We are drilling down to make a decision on choosing a ship for a 2018 Around-The-World sailing. Can we book this through you and can you help us decide? We’re looking for a sailing that might be really elegant, I’ve had a very good year in the market, a bit dressy from time…
Q – Good day and thank you for your efforts on this site. It is wonderful.. We work with an Ensemble agency and they have us on some great mailing lists so we see a lot of the new offers. We just received one announcing a series of upcoming sailings that will go to Cuba….
Q – We have close friends who want us to join them on a cruise that spends three days in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. We enjoy downtown Chicago, where we have retired, and, quite frankly, my wife has some safety concerns about traveling right now to Israel. I am wondering what your writers feel about…
Q – My husband and I are on our mid 70’s and still active. We are more nature-oriented travelers and love hiking and national parks. We dd one cruise with National Geographic up the Columbia River. But age is catching up with us and we need a more leisurely trip. My husband is Slovakian and…
Q – My wife and I could be considered seasoned land travelers. We have been to Alaska and the Caribbean on cruise ships. We came tot he conclusion that we are land lovers. Too much time on the ship. Our main interest is photography and we found the photo ops are limited on a cruise…
Q – Our family has been following RiverBoatRatings for the past four years and we’re pretty much at the point where we feel like we know as much about this part of the travel industry as most travel agents. So thanks for that. We are going to be booking several cabins to celebrate my mother’s…
Q – We have just booked our eighth cruise with Crystal. We’ll be sailing to South America next winter. We’ve never used a travel agent before and we are wondering if there is a way to use one now. The problem is that we booked this upcoming cruise while we were on the cruise out of…
Q – We are looking at a Tauck Tours Program called Grand Alaska. We love Tauck but notice that the program includes a seven-night inside passage cruise on a Princess Ship. Since Princess is not on the Top-Ten Cruise Lines list, we wonder just how luxurious our experience will be and whether or not this…
Q – Don’t know if you can answer this but, as a CPA, I am really curious about the profit, if any, that cruise lines can make from the spending guests do once aboard the ship. My wife and I have never sailed any of the line son the Top Ten List, but we have…
Q – My husband has asked me to ask you if we can bring about five or six bottles of wine aboard the AMAPrima. He gets a bit grouchy when he is offered wines of poor or even medium quality and he would like to know that he can bring at least a few bottles…
Q – There are four of us interested in doing a Rhone/Saone river cruise. The available itineraries and the experience of river cruising appeals to us but one of us has numerous food sensitivities that, while not life threatening, would make for a very uncomfortable, unenjoyable trip if certain foods are not avoided. these food…
Q – We were going to book a river cruise with another couple on our street until we found your site and started reading about the water issues – something our “former” travel agent had never discussed with us. We were concerned enough to click the link to your cruise site, which is terrific by…
Q – We are going to be joining some friends for a nice river boat vacation in May of 2018. We want to start planning right away and we need to know which of the lines serves, or rather includes, all alcohol as opposed to charging for drinks that we might order. It isn’t so…
Q – My agent is really pushing us to sail a four-night cruise on the Mekong River on a line called Aqua. I’ve checked them out and they seem to be fine. The CEO of the line will be aboard and I wonder if this is enough of a reason to select this line. I…
Q – We were really thrilled to read your piece about the new river cruise line for people in my age group – 2o and 30 year-olds. I’ve read a little bit about it on River Boat Ratings but would like to know how this idea came about. I am a business major in a…
Q – We are close to pulling the trigger on a Crystal River Cruise this September along the Danube. We’re thinking, since we’re eight months ahead, that we would like to pick out the best cabin and best shore excursions and then try to reserve them in advance. How do we do this? Finding out…
Q – We have enjoyed the information on this site and we’re ready to try river boating now or in the near future. But there is one glitch – we’re in our late twenties and early thirties respectfully. Our biggest criticism of what we see in the current riverboat market is that all of the…
Q – We are seriously considering taking a ten-day drive somewhere in Sweden, perhaps renting a car in Stockholm and using services of car detailers so you can keep this car in top notch. Our idea is to get out and try to find the most beautiful examples of quaint, lovely small towns, the best…
Q – My husband and I have been frustrated by the planning for a trip to Poland. We don’t know exactly how to plan such a trip and we don’t know how to design a trip in terms of number of nights in Warsaw versus Krakow. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. We will want…
Q – We are Platinum Amex travelers who have been on more than twenty overseas trips. Now, recently retired, we are trying to work through our list of places we would like to visit off most of the major tourist routes. Right now we are thinking about the Baltics or the former Russian Republics. We’re…
Q – A little help would be appreciated. We’re New Yorkers in our 30’s and we want to head for Mexico for a week of sun and seafood – though maybe not in that order. We’re probably a bit more price conscious than some of your followers so any information about current food pricing would…
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