This was our first trip to Europe and first river cruise. We enjoyed every moment of the trip! The staff, food, service, our stateroom, ports and shore excursions were even better than we expected. We highly recommend a river cruise. We've been on 6 large ocean cruises and this far exceeded them! We enjoyed the shore excursions the most. We took German classes and played some fun games too. The ship was well laid out and spotless. The food was to die for. We even got to take a tour of the kitchen on board and meet the hardworking food workers. We'll definitely plan to do another river cruise in the future!!!!