Scenic River Basel Cruise Reviews

We booked to leave Basel on 10/15/18 and arrive in Amsterdam on 10/21/18 on Scenic Jewel. The Rhine river had been low since end of June beginning of July according to many locals and crew. This trip was a disaster. We met to board ship in Basel ( met at Airport) and were bussed to Worms as river was too low to allow ship to go to Basel. We took a BUS to Worms. We were in Worms two days being ...

I believed that we were booking a 5 star cruise, we ended up on the worst experience in25 plus ocean cruises. Communication from Scenic was non existent. The day that we were flying to Budapest I called the Scenic office in Vancouver and the rep. Promised to call me when he got into the office. Well, he never called me, but I did receive a call from Nat. Geo. Who told me that we would be ...

Chose this cruise as I wanted to cruise on the Danube from Nuremburg to Budapest. When we got picked up at Munich aiprort we were told that due to low water we would be bused to Passau so missed a large part of the cruise down the Danube. Then the ship only cruised for half a day during daylight hours. I thought there would be a lot more cruising during the day not at night and the tour descriptor ...

We chose Scenic because it had been rated as one of the top 3 river cruise lines. We booked one of two "Panoramic Suites" (#337) and spent a small fortune to have this experience....the "river cruise" experience. For us, it was more about the ship and the trip down the Danube, our deluxe (fabulous) cabin and our butler (Christian, who by the way, was excellent). The day trips were an ...

Our first river cruise! We called Scenic on September 9th to see if re-scheduling our Danube cruise was warranted (we were aware of low water levels). We were told no; there was a possibility of a ship swap if necessary. On September 18 (we were already in Prague), we received an email from Scenic informing us we would be boarding the Jasper instead of the Amber as originally planned. Upon ...