Frankfurt to Europe - River Cruise Reviews

The Cruise offered us access to particular countries / towns that we wished to visit. The Emerald Dawn offered the Cabin standard (Grand Balcony Suite) that appealed to us. A bit of a rocky start. The transport to ship was impossible to locate (for us and others). A broad range of excursions were offered. Recommend in particular the Skoda Tour ( of Slovakia in Communist times) and the ...

Went on the cruise with friends. We had previously sailed with AMA on the Danube and Viking in Portugal. Food, cabins, staff and ships are all comparable with previous experiences. Overall was a fun trip and we enjoyed ourselves. Found that there are less active options ( we are in our late 50s) than our previous experiences. There are excursions but they seem to be rushed and less time allowed to ...

First time emerald cruisers an overall great experience. Have been on Viking for the Portugal through the Douro Valley. Food, cabin, staff and overall boat accommodations on par with Viking. Emerald could do better in the cultural experience we found the evening entertainment lacking just a bit. Although our activities director was fantastic but too many game nights. A German cooking class, or ...

We chose this cruise because we had done a Rhine cruise before and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, this cruise did not live up to expectations. The good points: the boat is lovely, very clean and comfortable. Good size cabin with plenty of storage. Great sun deck, superb food and lovely staff. The down side was the itinerary, very disappointing. Apart from Koblenz, the boat was moored a ...

First river cruise following a ocean cruise. The river cruise wins hands down. The ship is well staffed, friendly and spotlessly clean. We received a huge welcome on board and this continued on returning from day trips. Our state room was perfect and met all our needs. Cleaned daily and nothing was a bother for the cleaning team. The food- OMG- Beyond amazing. Presentation, taste, ...

We chose this cruise for relaxation and panorama. We got plenty panorama but not much rest. The biggest problem was the departure times of the visits, 8am or 8.30am. We were 90% elderly people and like to lie in in the mornings, especially when on holiday. We could see no harm in the departure times being a little later, maybe 9.30am. Most tours were over well before the ship set sail again. We ...

We chose Emerald as we had cruised with them previously and were very pleased with our holiday but the customer support pre cruise was nearly non existant An email from the company was received about 3 weeks prior to departure asking us to complete a couple of questions including who to notify in an emergency and for flight details - as they had booked the flights this appeared to be ...

Although we have taken several ocean cruises,the Nile and the Mekong this was our first European river cruise. We need a pre Xmas break and saw the TUI Rhine gems cruise which took in several places we had not visited previous. TUI is a package so flights,transfers,£120 worth of excursions were included and it was all inclusive. Transfer from Frankfurt airport to the Maya was fine,a bit ...

This was a 5-night Christmas Markets river cruise called 'Mistletoe and Rhine'. I composed this review just after we got back from the cruise in December 2021, but have only just got round to posting it! We had a 'French Balcony Suite cabin' on deck 3. It was a lovely cabin - spacious, loads of storage space, very pleasant decor (albeit with rather too many unnecessary scatter cushions!), ...

My wife and I have been on many conventional cruises but as the ships keep getting bigger we decided to try river cruises. We have been with Tui(Thompson) on many occasions and The Skyla is one of their newest river cruise boats When we first arrived we were greated by exceptionaly friendly staff as well as the Captain the reception area was well appointed as well as the Cabin we paid the extra ...