Many of the river cruises appear the same. We chose this one because they gave us free business class airfares to Europe via Singapore where our daughter lives. We had numbers of private things to do airlines (Singapore) and Scenic are where more than helpful and gave us everything we needed (wanted) in the form of flights there and back to Australia. We spent an additional 3 weeks on our holiday. The cruise was and wonderful rest and very interesting even though we have been to Europe many times before. The food was outstanding and service impeccable. We were free to do whatever we pleased and the tours were graded for good and poor mobility individuals. It was a very manageable cruise for the disabled as the ship had a lift. I made use of the e-bikes although I found them very heavy after my own light road bike. The "Tailor-mades" were very useful both on/off the boat and on guided tours. For those had been to the cities before you were probably best to go off on your own with their GPS ":Tailor-mades". My only slight criticism is that these were heavy around your neck -- perhaps they need to upgrade their technology.