We chose it as we wanted to revisit an area of France we knew well from at least 25 years of camping among the vineyards of southern France.
We arrived in Lyon on excellent Eurostar direct from St Pancras.
We were met and whisked swiftly through the lovely city of Lyon to the pretty riverside, to embark on A-ROSA Stella, emblazoned with ( rather naff looking ) red lips!
We were swiftly ...
The southern Rhine Christmas market theme cruise.
Taking in Mannheim , Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Mainz.
The excursions where add ons and needed to be booked as in most cases except for Strasbourg your where moored to far away and all on the German side of the river.
The excursion was not a guided one as all it was , was a transfer to a market with set time of collection. No guide no ...
Was it good? No. Was it bad? No. I need to make it clear from the outset that to some extent we were comparing this cruise to our only other river cruise, which was on Scenic. So business class to economy is probably the best explanation I can provide. Similar price differential.
Viva departs from St Denis, which is more than 5 miles from the city centre of Paris. It shares a wharf with a ...
The pre cruise 3 day stay in Prague, together with Vienna and Budapest were the high points of this, our second river cruise. The views from our Juliette cabin window were magnificent and come highly recommended.The weather was typically very hot but the air conditioning kept us all cool until one evening it broke down for a few hours. Generally however, the facilities onboard were maintained to a ...
When we booked this package in April 2015 it was advertised as starting from Amsterdam on 21st August with an overnight stay in port and departing later the following day - this was exactly what we wanted as this was during Sail Amsterdam 2015 which was an event that only happens every 5 years and was the main reason for booking the cruise.
Some 3 weeks before the event we received notification ...
This was our first time on a River Cruise and I did enjoy the overall experience of river cruising but would choose another company next time, in regard to some reasons listed below.
This cruise was along the Danube from Passau to Budapest and back over 8 days. When we arrived in the train station in Passau we were surprised that there was no representative from Arosa to offer passengers ...
Overall:
I think it is very tricky to try to add Americans to what was once a mainly German cruise line. The announcements were in English and German and all the printed materials were in English and German.
We did get an all-English newsletter every day and an all-English “Daily Calendar”
The staff was pretty much bi-lingual, but their first language was German, so they spoke to one another in ...