Emerald Liberte Review

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ALMOST PERFECT VACATION!

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AMSTER69
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Aug 2019

Having been in the travel business for over 49 years, I wanted to try this cruise line and also take a river cruise, which we had never done. We paid full fare. With some small exceptions, it was a perfect vacation. They provided fabulous backpacks and ticket wallet pre-cruise. They met our plane, and transferred us to the hotel, even though we arrived two days early to get acclimated to the new time zone. Ship was beautiful, spotless, and cabin space very well planned, with plenty of storage space for our two huge bags of luggage, as we traveled pre and post cruise. We would have liked more hooks. They provided bathrobes and velour slippers, Each room had a flat screen TV with huge number of channels, with movies, TV series, travel videos.

Umbrellas, walking canes, earplugs, Moulton Brown toiletries, and WASHCLOTHS---a rarity in France. Shower space was fabulous compared to our last cruise on a regular cruise ship in March. Just wonderful. The only negative was the chairs in our in-room balcony were too big for the space and really, really uncomfortable.

Included tours were excellent, the guides on almost every tour were delightful, charming, humorous, knowledgeable and spoke perfect English, which we followed on our Emerald padded headsets, which you re-charge every day. We booked 3 extra tours for the afternoons, and they were worth every penny, as these were spectacular points of interest visually, and you also got to see the countryside on the way to the destination. I don't think you could take a bad picture at any of the places we visited---we took over 75--- and every single one could be a postcard. Tournon was our least favorite stop, as there is not a tremendous amount there---maybe a cooking class could have been offered?

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Cabin Panoramic Balcony

it was lovely

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Arles

The old city is fascinating. Bought three beautiful linen dresses here, and found their prices were better than in most of the other cities. Optional tour to Les Baux was absolutely

spectacular, countryside beautiful--- passing through some interesting small towns along the way.

Avignon

A large city with lots of history, again fascinating, but lots of stores were closed because it was Monday!

Tournon-sur-Rhone

Not alot here of interest--- my husband did a bike tour which he liked, and we walked to the Valrhona Chocolate store and sampled lots of chcolate!

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