Scenic provide good value if you are looking for average and you’re travelling on a budget. If you’re looking for quality and pay for a premium- it’s disappointing. The notion of quality premium wines is a joke. As for food - it was mixed - we had to jump on the Scenic Ruby after flooding on the Danube and their food was excellent. The food on the Scenic Crystal was not good - 5 meals were ...
We chose Scenic as we had not travelled with them before and we had heard great reviews from previous travellers.
Food and staff on the Ruby were excellent. We missed specialist dining in designated restaurant - seems to have been cut out.
Lack of entertainment in evenings was very disappointing. There was a piano on the ship, it was never played. No library or games area for wet day ...
Let me give the positives first
1. ship is old and beautifully maintained
2. Our deluxe balcony suite was comfortable and spotless. Plenty of closet and drawers, safe and small refrigerator which was stocked with beverages and a few snacks. Soaps, and hair products are in large containers. Shower was delightful with multiple shower heads. We enjoyed the balcony chairs. Top deck was ...
Have been on many many river cruises and though this might be a nice change as I never have been with this company before well it is my first and last .I can’t really find anything that I could say that says 5 star at best 3 star food was the worst I have ever experienced the quality of the products were just underwhelming I had paid over £5000 for one person on a French river cruise I expect ...
It was not really supposed to have been me on this cruise, originally. My mother had a gentleman-friend, and they were going to see Europe together, but he went to an ill-advised Christmas party in 2021 and died of COVID complications a few months later. Nevertheless, Mom had always wanted to do this cruise, and I love Central Europe, so she brought me along instead.
In the age of ubiquitous ...
Itinerary got cancelled twice due to COVID and they downgraded the shore excursions in the meantime. A french wine cruise that went to ZERO decent wineries. Good food on board but mediocre wines at best. Small menues... 2 or 3 entrees many times. Boat got in an accident and we got to spend 4 days in a crappy port where we were due to spend 4 hours. Not their fault. Some shore excursions ...
Our cruise on the Rhone River started quite nicely as were greeted onboard by the Captain and head of hospitality. The first couple of days all was good. Service was great, food was very good and all of the logistics for tours etc went smoothly. Then it happened!
To keep it short, 4 days into a 10 day trip through the South of France on the Rhone River we had a collision with a cargo barge. It ...
Although the staff were very nice & mostly tried their best, the priority is for Scenic's needs
-passengers and their requests are very low on the list.! They have an inflexible attitude toward problems or suggestions & suffer a lack any empathy & the motto seems to be ' don't provide unless it's asked for several times first'
Our cabin was missing items which took several requests to ...
Having done a lot of research river cruising we plumped for this itinerary travelling up the Rhine and then Danube, Amsterdam to Budapest. This was our first river cruise, having previously been on Ocean cruises. According to the advertisements it would tick all our boxes, alas that was not to be the case.
We never considered that there would be low water levels that would disrupt the whole ...
In 2015 we sailed with Scenic down the Danube from Budapest to Nurenberg and it was 5 star. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about this cruise. The difficulties began even prior to leaving home. Their website was basically out of commission for months, and phone contact was nearly impossible. When you were able to get through on the phone after waiting for hours, it was clear that Scenic ...