Why river cruise

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Antoinette S. You board a luxurious ship, unpack once and relax in true comfort while you sail from one destination to the next. Travelling can be hard work - packing a bag and unpacking many of times , moving from one hotel to another, making your way from one destination to the next - BUT with river cruising your 'hotel' moves with you!

On board facilities include restaurants, bars, a fitness centre, spa and pool. Because of the nature of the ships, sailing through tight locks and under low bridges, their size is ofcourse restricted. Most river ships accommodate between guests, some even fewer. This brings fellow passengers together, making it easier to get to know each other and make friends many make true friends for life. Many guests choose to dine with their fellow passengers or even arrange to meet for a drink.

PLUS fewer passengers means a greater access to staff! And believe me, the staff are excellent! To many peoples' disbelief, the staterooms onboard are spacious and contemporary; often compared to that of a modern hotel room.

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Set or Change Password Back to Login. Need more convincing? Here are eight essential reasons to take a European river cruise. If you have a river cruise experience to share, we'd love to see your photos and read your stories in Cruise Critic's River and Canal Cruises forum. River cruising offers great vacation value, with meals, entertainment think Austrian string quartet, not Las Vegas-style revues , tours and, often, local wines with dinner included in the fares.

Tauck River Cruising does an especially good job offering compelling shoreside activities, such as private concerts and chef-led excursions to food markets. And it offers a little bit extra: "The highlight of the cruise for many of us was the Tauck tradition of 'lagniappe,' a New Orleans term for a surprise treat," writes Cruise Critic's Carolyn Spencer Brown.

Indeed, shore touring is central to the concept of river cruising -- and nearly always included in the cost of the cruise. Tours vary; some are traditional city and village walks, while others feature active or experiential options meals in private homes, cycling tours, wine tastings. One big plus: They use technology that makes it easy for you to follow along. Avalon, AmaWaterways and Tauck, among others, issue passengers personal headsets, which plug into wireless receivers so that all can hear their guides, perfectly clearly, no matter the distance or venue.

Riverboats don't spend full days out on the rivers, but when passing through particularly beautiful stretches like the Danube's Wachau Valley and the Rhine's River Gorge, cruise lines feature daytime cruising and often fun, themed meals and entertainment. On a recent trip on Viking's Viking Prestige, crewmembers hauled out beer steins, period costumes and special decorations, transforming the sun deck as we cruised along Austria's Wachau.

Between tour-packed days in port, there are lectures, shore tours, cocktail parties and, of course, meals. Even our sole sea day was hectic, kicked off by a 6 a. I was kept so busy I honestly didn't even turn my TV on until the last day of the trip -- just to see if it worked. She adds, "I'd happily cruise on any of them. But there wasn't a ship I saw out there that compared with Uniworld's S. Antoinette features a sun deck with wrought iron chaises and ultra-plush pillows, the edgy and trendy Leopard Bar and a beautiful indoor pool and spa.

As well, its variety of silk-walled mini-suites offers a haven from the usual beehive of activity. Still, on the ship design front, S.