My wife and I first met the Cruise Director when we went to the hospitality desk and asked for assistance in locating my wife’s delayed check bag and hopefully redirection of it to our room onboard. My wife and I booked our own air transportation to Europe with the airline we historically fly from Dallas to Europe. Our flight to Europe could not have been more eventful. As a result, we had in a tight connection in London and a bag was missing when we arrived in Austria. The Cruise Director was personally responsible for working with airline personnel and rerouting the bag to a very small town near the border of Austria and Germany that was our first stop after the cruise began. Without Barbara’s (Cruise Director) efforts the bag would have never been reunited with my wife until our return to Dallas.

Our cruise was considered an Active cruise. We enjoyed each and every stop and felt that the excursions offered were very appealing to us. We didn’t want a cruise where the excursions were city tours by bus. We wanted to bike and hike during our tours. The weather could have been better but to enjoy the cruise in spite of the weather goes a long way in showing how appealing the excursions were and how enjoyable the other cruisers were to be around. The active nature of the cruise attracted cruisers that were approaching retirement instead of 20 years past retirement.