Ours was an amazing cruise filled with delectable food, eye-opening side trips, awesome new friends, attentive service, enjoyable entertainment, magnificent river views, a wide array of alcoholic and non-alcoholic free drinks which all added up as a week in Utopia that no one seemed to want to end.

We found a group of eight people with which we immediately bonded at our first lunch and ate almost all of our meals together especially because our server Lara made us all feel so special and we did not want to miss that! Oh our meal! Salmon and steak and shrimp oh my! My favorites were the baked crispy chicken and fried green tomatoes. Desserts? Yes that too. How about pecan bourbon pie or layers and layers of chocolate in one cake. My husband got any kind of beer or wine he asked for-- at no cost. Breakfast was made to order as well as a pastry and parfait and fruit bar. There was room service too. There was a daily cocktail hour with any kind of hors d'oeuvre one would want. I loved the baked Brie with vegetables. My husband loved the garlic shrimp. Every night was different.

We had one complimentary trip each day. We visited three plantations each with its own focal point. One gave us FREE mint juleps. We also visited the Gettysburg battlefield and the WWII museum. Read more