My wife and I have had many cruises over the years, but never a river cruise. We have used a number of cruise lines, but the last 3 cruises have been with Oceania, which we dearly love and we have another booked for the 4th June this year in our favourite suite.
Having extensivly covered the Med, we thought that a river cruise may give us another wide variety of places to see, but in a slightly lazier way along the banks of the rivers of Europe and perhaps further afield and as we are i our 75th year, we do like variety.
At the Birmingham NEC Cruise show in 2016, we booked the cruise with Oceania, but then saw the stand of Scenic River Cruises. We had been told that they were one of the best, so we went along and chatted with Stacey Owen, who was very helpful and having explained that we had never had a river cruise before we explained that wanted spacious accomodation, as we usually have a suite aboard Oceania, so we elected to have the Royal Panorama Suite (337) which gave us that space.