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- How much day time cruising is there? There are two day time cruising sessions, on Day 2, from 10:00 to 12:00, and on day 3 from 9:00 \u2013 13:00. On Day 5, from Cologne to Mainz, one arrives at Mainz at 14:00. Do we pass the Loreli rock during the day time?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What does the drinks package buy? Beer, Wine, local spirits and some cocktails<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The boat is the Spirit of the Moselle<\/a>, their balcony rooms look nice, and here is a deck plan<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Is there a dress code? Will I find the entertainment oppressive?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- They do not <\/strong>offer an option to travel independently.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- There will be a single person supplement, like all cruise boats below the waterline is cheaper. Need to check prices!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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<\/a>The Middle Rhine, Cologne to Mainz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n The Guardian holidays suggest an alternative from Riviera<\/a>, which is three days only, allows train travel, and is advertised as much cheaper, partly because it’s only three days. Actually, pretty poor when one pays the single traveller supplement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>The Spirit of the Moselle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Originally written in 2022, more generic items, I searched for a bunch of providers with various options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Rhine River Cruises<\/a> from Viking; they changed their site for 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Rhine<\/a> from Avalon in 2023, \u00a32,117 for 8 nights plus travel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- River cruise price comparisons<\/a> from River Cruise Advisor, still waiting for 2023 prices<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- I watched a couple of videos and learnt the following things, they can be very active, particularly if the excursions are included, Viking is 5*. Avalaon has good cabins, or Croisie Europe<\/a>, a French company although their travel is unbundled. Top tip, the lower cabin deck is on the waterline and only has porthole windows, no sitting on a balcony sipping cold whites while the river goes past.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Or Riviera Travel<\/a>, who offer Rhine & Moselle<\/a>, Rhine, Strasbourg & Hiedleberg<\/a>, and Cologne to Basel,<\/a> with a coach trip to Lucerne and back via the Bernese Oberland, all 8 days, all 2023, includes travel, by train, and discounted upgrades and in some dates with no singles supplement. They advertise<\/a> their boats on their site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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Or I could consider canal rental,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- In France<\/a>, with Le Boat, they have a number of bases, including the Camargue and Alsace<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- And https:\/\/www.locaboat.com\/en\/boating-holidays\/france\/<\/a>, similar locations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
A Eurostar to Amsterdam in Nov 2022, cost about \u00a3275, \u00a3215 by plane from LCY, 7 days in a month, on inter-rail, , \u00a3265.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A friend went on a river cruise and I thought that sounded fun. So I did some looking up. They’re not cheap at over \u00a3400 day, the Danube is more expensive than the Rhine; some prices exclude the journey there and back. Food and drink is often included, but they have several ways of getting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[79],"tags":[1831,81,108],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-cruising","tag-europe","tag-travel-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/116420390990821123","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/rhine-azyumardisuntana-unsplash-w1024-cropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14202,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/14202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- And https:\/\/www.locaboat.com\/en\/boating-holidays\/france\/<\/a>, similar locations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
- The Rhine<\/a> from Avalon in 2023, \u00a32,117 for 8 nights plus travel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n