jimmymac613

FYI- my wife and I booked our second cruise with Scenic which is an 11-day cruise (plus 3 days in Prague) and we received a Welcome Home Discount- Gold- Voucher for $200 each (total $400 discount). It was taken directly off of the Booking Invoice.

Thanks for all of your inputs! Since we're only in Vienna for one day we're going to stay there for the day.

We'll be on our second Scenic river cruise in May and the day that we're in Vienna we can't decide between the excursion to Schonbrunn Palace or the half day bus trip to Bratislava. Any recommendations? We've never been to either of them.

notamermaid- why do you say to avoid Nuremberg?

John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

We'll be on the Gems of the Danube cruise in May on Scenic Amber. We can't decide between the Freechoice options of going to the Schonbrunn Palace or the Excursion to Bratislava. Any suggestions?

Hi Jazz- when we booked our second cruise with Scenic back in July through a TA we received two $200 discounts on our booking that were listed as "Welcome Home Discount- Gold" with a voucher code.

Jazzbeau- I highly recommend the Bellevue Syrene Hotel in Sorrento. Was just there in May. Gorgeous views of the water, excellent hotel and great location.

Which, if any, of the cruise companies visits Omaha Beach in Normandy? The only one that I've looked into was Scenic which stops in Honfleur but, according to their itinerary, only goes to Utah Beach for Americans. Doesn't really make sense to me because it sure looks like Omaha Beach is closer to Honfleur than Utah Beach. Also, how long is the bus ride from Honfleur?

We were just on the Romantic Rhine and Moselle cruise with Scenic in June. We were very excited about their electric bikes and the fact that about every other day they offered a cycling tour because we bike a lot in California and wanted and needed the exercise. We realized that, after the third bicycling tour, we just weren't seeing enough of the towns and cities that we were visiting. I'm sure it was for safety reasons but all of the bike tours that we went on tended to take you out into the countryside into rural settings where you saw farmland, horses, cows and sheep. Not exactly the great European architecture and history that we were looking for. After that we chose the city tours.

We were just on the Romantic Rhine and Moselle cruise with Scenic in June. We were very excited about their electric bikes and the fact that about every other day they offered a cycling tour because we bike a lot in California and wanted and needed the exercise. We realized that, after the third bicycling tour, we just weren't seeing enough of the towns and cities that we were visiting. I'm sure it was for safety reasons but all of the bike tours that we went on tended to take you out into the countryside into rural settings where you saw farmland, horses, cows and sheep. Not exactly the great European architecture and history that we were looking for. After that we chose the city tours.

When we were in the Amsterdam airport last month it seemed like the only machines we could find were Travelex.

Currently on the Scenic Pearl and we’re rafting with the Scenic Jade in Strasbourg. We’re stuck here due to the lock strike. There’s also 3 more cruise ships (there may be more but the 5 is all I can see). The Pearl and Jade will move to Breisach later this afternoon and that’s where we’ll disembark from in the morning. We will not be going to Basel. Scenic is too concerned that once the lock opens up there will be too many ships trying to get through and we would miss our flights tomorrow. From what we’ve heard the Jade returns to its regular schedule starting tomorrow.

Scenic didn’t stand there holding a sign at the Amsterdam airport like some of the other companies. They tell you to go to the Burger King and in front of it there is a place with a “Meeting Point” sign.

We’re currently on a Scenic cruise. We left early and spent 4 days in Amsterdam before the cruise. When we left we had not yet received our backpacks, however, we received everything that we needed through e-mail via our TA about a week before we left including all of the transfer information for pickup at the airport.