Hallo,
I came back from a Danube trip on the 29 th of July.
The ship, the Arosa Flora was supposed to go from Engelhartszell (Passau) to the cataracts (Iron Gate) and back on the Danube in 12 days.
It started on July 17th, three days later we were told in Budapest that we unfortunately couldn’t continue because of the “extremely low water levels on sections of the Danube”, so we had to turn around and we would be going back for the next 9 days.
The new ports of call were then Komarom, Bratislava (2 nights), Hainburg, Krems, Melk and Linz (2 nights), we almost only sailed at night.
This was very disappointing. I didn't want to go there and I also wanted to travel on the Danube during the day as planned in the original plan.
Arosa has at least two other ships doing Passau to Budapest only, when we have been in Komaron, one of these was also in Komaron, the guest were probably driven to Budapest by bus.
And right now the Arosa Bella is in Komaron instead of Budapest.
The next cruise with the Arosa Flora (started at the 29 th July) was supposed to go all the way down to the delta, a two weeks trip. They made it till Mohacs (south of Budapest) on day 3 or 4, and then turned around and now they are doing about the same itinerary as we did.
The Arosa Flora is a narrow ship, specially selected for these routes.
Tipps for Komaron, if you have time there are some things to see. The City south of the river is in Hungary,
and not so interesting, except a huge Tesco supermarket, but there is the interesting Fort Monostor, about 2km (easy) walk just along the river. The city north is Slovakia (Euro) and the old city is very nice for a short visit, nice buildings, a market place and Europa place. And there is also a Fort, there are lots of Fort in this area.