I chose this cruise because thirteen friends and family were going on cruise. Unfortunately, I was the only one who made it. Two got covid, and the others cancelled because cruise was shortened to four nights, due to strikes in France. I was already in Paris so I decided to take the abbreviated cruise.
I can't really call it much of a cruise as we only spent two days actually cruising and the rest of time in port, but what we did do I enjoyed. Avalon did as best they could under very difficult circumstances.
We spent first three nights in hotels in Lyon. Since I had never been to Lyon, that was fine, except for the first hotel, which was at the airport and forty minutes out of town. That was not ok, but the next two nights they transferred us to a very nice and centrally located hotel in Lyon.