Q – We received a mailing form Seabourn saying they are going to be building two new ships. Meanwhile, we’ve been looking at a cruise we really like on the Quest for next summer in the Baltic. We can wait a year or two if the new ships will be really special. We’ve tried Regent…
Q – I would enjoy a themed cruise around wine and/or food, but my wife doesn’t care. Is there a possibility of reduced pricing if we waited for a last minute booking? A – No. River boats offer their best rates to those who book earliest. They assume guests speak to one another about pricing matters…
Q – We are really excited about the changes at Crystal Cruises you describe. Our interest at the moment is centered around the new Crystal Yacht division and the Esprit. We want to know how to book the yacht and when the books will officially open? We are also wondering if you feel it is…
Q – Hello – and fascinating approach. We’re enjoying this informative site by the pool. It reads even better after a second daiquiri. My wife and I are going top plan something that will give us a week or two in the Galapagos along with a few days to see Machu Pichu – number one…
Q – We won’t discuss our personals but let’s just say that my wife and I remember Woodstock for lots of reasons some of which can’t be discussed on a classy travel Q&A site. Our tie-dyes still fit, well my wife’s does anyway, and we want to try to relive the experience somewhere in the…
Q – We’ve got the world’s greatest kid. He just won a full music scholarship, saving us four years of college tuition and we want to take him on the best trip of his life somewhere outside the USA. He’s been to London – that’s about it, and his passion is seeing whales up close….
Q – Hello. I’m an off-road enthusiast. My wife and I drive a Jeep Cherokee and we’ve had it on just about every hill in Arkansas we can find, we got our car in a great used car agency call Autozin, if you want an adventure car make sure to buy the correct vehicle. A…
Q – We were reviewing your truly ambitious site. You have set yourselves quite a challenge. But how are we to trust your information when we read that “if you know the price you’ve paid for a hotel room – you’ve paid too much.” Please explain. Otherwise love the information and the way it is…
Q – We are scheduled to stay in Budapest for three days before boarding our Uniworld River Cruise. The news is just awful, and the refugees seem to be causing all sorts of problems in the city. My wife is somewhat fragile and I will admit, based on what I am seeing on TV, I’m…
Q – I came across your web-site by accident while searching for information on Regent Cruise Lines. I discovered that Regent Cruise Lines, as of November 2015, will be taken over by NCL. Because of the buy-out/take-over would it be wise to book a cruise with Regent in September/October? We are concerned that the disruption…
Q – Where the Elbe River is concerned trust me you signed up for a bus tour. Our Elbe River “non-cruise” was supposed to leave Prague on July 5th to meet our boat, the Alstrid, up river a small distance away. Since there was almost no water in the river what happened to our group…
Q – We are intrigued and excited about the new Crystal river boats. But before we get too carried away, please let us know about the prices for the new boats. They sound expensive. A – It is common in the cruise and river boat industry to do what is called a “soft PR Campaign”…
Q – Hi! My mom (75), daughter (14 by next summer) and I are planning to travel to Europe next summer. We are hoping to make a river cruise part of our European tour. I have been trying to research and sort through many tips and reviews and the limitations with 3 traveling together. I…
Q – Hello. My family and I are interested in taking a river boat vacation in Europe (May 2016). I will be traveling with my husband and a toddler (who will be shy of 2 years old by the time of cruising), as well as two sets of grandparents. I am looking for a family…
Q – We were really surprised to read your announcement regarding Crystal’s new River Boat Brand set to sail in 2017. As Boomers who are still working, I suppose we’re in a position to wait for Crystal to do our first river boat cruise. The question is should we? We appreciate find food and service,…
Q – We are booked on a cruise on AMA Waterways that departs from Passau. We will be doing some traveling in Europe before jumping on the boat and we arrive at the Munich Airport the day we are to board. I was wondering how we might get to the ship from the airport without…
Q – Thank you for your informative site. Very much appreciated. Background: My wife and I are interested in an Eastern European river boat cruise next year for our 35th anniversary, ideally in September or October 2016. We’ve been on one cruise (Princess Alaska cruise w/Denali) and I would not say we’re “cruise types.” But…
Q – Last year, I booked an “Elegant Elbe” cruise for July 2015. Two days before flying to Prague, I received an email from Viking that the river was low and that our itinerary would be altered. They reported that we would have to move from one boat to its sister ship during the cruise….
Q – We have been told by our agent that river boats sell out a year in advance. We can travel in September or early October but nothing we would want appears to be available. If there is a shortage of boats, why don’t they just build more? A – Construction involves paying in Euros…
Q – We are getting a lot of pressure from our friends, Mel and Susan, to take something called a Haimark boat through Vantage Travel. Wondering if this sounds OK. Our friends are a bit more adventurous than we are. He’s an Orthopedic Surgeon who seems to want to be his own patient. He dives,…
Q – We read your site after thinking we might take a river cruise. Our conclusion is that we would want to go with one of your top recommendations. Your site gives both the up and downside in a really refreshing way that we have not seen elsewhere. But given those downsides, how is river…
Q – We were just about to contact you folks to do our first river boat voyage. We’ve cruised the large cruise ships perhaps a dozen time, most often on Crystal, which is the creme de la creme. So we were rather shocked to read that Crystal is actually launching a new river cruise line….
Q – Based, in large part,on the ratings you offer here, which are incredibly helpful, we booked a Tauck River Cruise in June of next year. As I just read what you have to say about flooding and draught and all sorts of things I never want to have to worry about on a vacation,…
Q – Everyone we speak to in Hartford says do the Danube the first time. It seems like it is like doing Paris on your first trip to Europe. But we had dinner last night with a neighbor who happens to have moved here from Stuttgart, and he says he prefers the Rhine. We’re so…
Q – We are booked, along with my semi-annoying brother-in-law and his lovely wife, on a Windstar cruise aboard the Star Breeze. My agent says this is a former Seabourn ship and they are fixing it up. This sort of worries me. Will I be getting a nice-looking ship or should we rethink this? The…
Q – We will be arriving in Barcelona on the day our ship, Sea Dream 11, sails at 5:00 pm. We’re coming in from Orange County on a connection through Madrid and wondering how we should get to the ship terminal from the airport? A – Not a big whoop. You’ll be arriving at El…
Q – Interesting site with good information and one really strong prejudice. We book cruises at least twice a year and we always use the online sites. While the folks we work with are order-takers, they always seem to have better pricing than the catalogs. If its cheaper online, that is where we are going…
Q – Having recently retired, and being terminally bored with nothing to do but hit the little ball in the hole, I’ve had time to do internet “research” on our next cruise. I am a former CFO for a major Fortune 500, but I confess to utter confusion about what is a real deal and…
Q – We’ve read a great deal about some of the programs using, I guess renting is the right term, boats from the Ponant Line. My lovely wife has agreed to join me on my dream trip to Antarctica in 2017. Is this the right line. I figure of Abercrombie & Kent and Tauck use…
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