Camargue Review

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Interesting experience on a not-well-known (outside of France) cruise line

Review for Europe River Cruise on Camargue
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AllisonJA
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Apr 2019

My husband and I have some extended holiday time this year so we wanted to spend some of this time traveling out of the UK (where we live temporarily- we are from the US) to Europe. I thought this would be a great chance to check out a river cruise, which we have never done before, although we have done many ocean cruises. My perception of river cruises are - they are long, expensive, and generally focused on retirees. But, I came across Croisi, which generally seems lower priced and which offered some shorter cruise options with (and this was the main selling point!) a couple options that included hikes at each port. I loved the idea of hiking the countryside at each location and I also read that the food on Croisi is excellent, dedicated to French gourmet cooking.

I did notice that Croisi is a French cruise line but didn't realize quite how French, until we boarded and we were told that there were essentially 6 other English-speakers on board! It turned out there were about 12 English speakers total, with 7 of us speaking no French at all, out of about 200 or so guests (not sure of the exact number), most of which were indeed retirees.

They sat the non-French speakers, 4 couples that included one French speaker, at the same table for meals so we did have someone to talk with. But, I think it could be almost equally likely that you could end up with no other passengers speaking English. So, if you do not speak French, my first recommendation would be to maybe do a Croisi cruise with a larger group so you are guaranteed someone else to talk with.

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Cabin Lower level

The room was light and bright and very clean. The bathroom was big enough. We were on a lower level so although we had a full window, we could only open the top, which was fine. If the weather was warmer, we might have wanted to be able to open the full sliding-glass door that the upper level rooms had but at this time of year, it was a little too coo for that. The bed faces the window, which is nice. The beds were two singles pushed together to make a double - no mattress pad or anything to cover the "seam" between the two beds. The main issue was the engine noise for the two nights that we traveled at night.

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