Julesndale

2 minutes ago, Coral said:

What day was your cruise scheduled to start? Some of us fly out early to our cruise.

Next Monday. We would have been there 3 days earlier.

Update: Riviera Travel has offered to refund our full payment due to the fact that they cannot guarantee the cruise will go ahead as planned, and we were scheduled to fly out tomorrow.  We are very pleased with this outcome and look forward to cruising with them in the future (river levels permitting).

Interesting.  We are scheduled to leave on a Riviera cruise from Budapest to Cologne next Monday.  Riviera have advised earlier today that as the river is still navigable the cruise will most likely go ahead. Not sure what sort of boat makes it navigable - perhaps a rubber dingy?

Thanks, notamermaid.

A minor correction - we are actually sailing from Budapest to Cologne (not sure why I said the other way).

Riviera have just started marketing in Australia, which coincided with our search for a reasonably-priced river cruise. We saw a review of Riviera Cruises and what they offered seemed to fit the bill; lower prices and less frills. Guess we will know in a couple of months whether we made the right choice.

Doing the Cologne to Budapest Riviera cruise late October so will report back (on the other thread) when done.