Scenic River Cruises Reviews

Chose Scenic based on online reviews etc. Considered it to be one of the top river cruise companies. We were very disappointed at service levels and food. Breakfast and lunch were major disappointments with minimal options and “cafeteria-feel” in the restaurant area. Our first lunch on the ship offered salads and the only hot food option : “liver balls”! For the money paid to take the trip, ...

SCENIC, THE WORST EVER Of 21 Cruises, this was by far and away the worst we have ever taken!!! We have cruised Carnival, RCI, Princess, Celebrity, Holland America, Crystal, Seabourn and this was definitely the worst. Misrepresentations on services galore, misdirections, and sullen, surly staff started us off. Mediocre to poor food continued the negative impression, and extremely ...

SCENIC EUROPEAN RIVER CRUISE Our cruise was from Amsterdam to Budapest with Paris and Prague extensions. I will start with the positive parts of the trip first Paris was wonderful the hotel and food was great our Tour Guide Joshua done a fantastic job he was available nearly all the time and very knowledgeable he also took us to our ship in Amsterdam the Scenic Opal. We were greeted on ...

Quality of the food was downright poor. We did not like much of the buffet food and were not told that we could order from a menu. We finally found this out on the next to last day of the cruise. One day for lunch there was no protein at all. Scenic dining service was terrible. Restaurant staff had no clue how to provide service. Most dinners took 2 hours. After dinner it took 20 minutes ...

We have just returned from our 2018 “Gem’s of the Danube” luxury river cruise. Actually, that is not correct. We have just returned from a mediocre bus tour of several cities near the Danube. The best I can say is that there was a photo of a luxury river boat on the side of the buses. • We were promised a trip of our life time -- take the Scenic Route. Meals and drinks included. Leave ...

Gems of The Danube is marketed as 3 days in Prague and then join the Jasper in Nuremberg for a Danube cruise to Budapest. We signed up in August of 2017, paid and arrived in Prague on time. The transportation provided from airport to Prague was delayed because some passengers were late. The area is small, hot, no explanations, no offer to move us to an air-conditioned motor coach, no offer of ...

Having spent may years travelling and have been on other scenic cruises our assumption was that this cruise would be as good as the others, to our surprise the standards have dropped, the meals have become very small and average in quality and there is a lack of variety. One passenger joked the meal sizes were like an overpriced nursing home meal. As a Celiac it is also important that my meals ...

Had not been to Portugal before and really enjoyed 1st Secenic trip Amsterdam to Budapest. Cruise director very well organised and supportive. Tour guides, Raquel, Sergio and Maria Helene were very knowledgeable, entertaining and supportive. All the excursions were fun and informative and gave a great overview of Portugal. However, the day to Salamanca could be reviewed. I loved Salamanca and ...

Before we booked this cruise, we had booked to do the same with Avalon but changes to our other tours and commitments saw us book with Scenic river cruises. We have used Scenic prior to this and had enjoyed their offerings but this was some time ago. Armed with all the hype after watching the advertising, we were expecting something really special. We arrived in Prague for the three day extension. ...

I recently took the Scenic Opal on the Danube to Budapest. Although not a fault of Scenic, the river level was very low and limited the ship to only one day and a couple of nights of sailing. We were bused into Budapest from Komaron. However the reason I am compelled to write this review has nothing to do with the river. It has everything to do with Scenic and their awful customer ...