Vantage Europe Cruise Reviews

Galley of the River Splendor
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Scenery as we sailed
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Scenery as we sailed
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Photo looking out ahead down the river
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Great Ship and Crew, but....

Review for a Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on MS Ocean Odyssey

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rvchase
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Hi. We picked this cruise in 2019, but vantage kept moving the dates until this year. They just moved the dates and NEVER sent us an email to tell us of the date changes. They only way we found out, was by logging into our account. Verry POOR. The ship and crew were great. However, working with Vantage was very hard. Long hold times( 2 hours) on the phone, plane reservations changed 7 day ...
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Sail Date: April 2023

Traveled with disabled person


Christmas Markets on the Danube

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Splendor

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PCruzer
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

The ports on this Christmas Markets cruise were the typical stops on any Danube River trip. What set it apart were all the different markets set up in each town/city. Browsing around was so much fun! And seeing some of the markets all lit up at night was special. The riverboat, the River Splendor, was typical of other riverboats we have been on. One huge disappointment, though, was the way ...
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Sail Date: November 2019


Portugal & Spain: Treasures Along the Golden Douro

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on Douro Serenity

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SandraPittsburgh
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

After numerous international ocean cruises, my husband and I decided three years ago to sample some river cruising. We have travelled the Rhine, Danube, and this year we chose Vantage for our Douro River cruise. In order to keep this brief, I am going to list why I believe Vantage is the best choice for the Douro: 1. We have had countless cruise directors, and by far, Carmen was the very best ...
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Sail Date: October 2019


Very enjoyable first time experience with Vantage River Cruise

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Splendor

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CoqCruiser
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

My wife and I chose to do a long river cruise for our first river cruise experience, thinking we would want to make one airplane ride to Europe and take in as much as possible. Vantage offered a 23 day river cruise with a 5 day land pre cruise extension in Romania. We did not know what to expect since it was our first river cruise after many ocean cruises and, there were few reviews of ...
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Sail Date: August 2019


Aborted Danube Main Rhine cruise with limited cuisine and comfortable cabins

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Splendor

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Mary Seas
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

This review covers 7 days on the vantage river splendor from budapest to regensburg on the first part of our danube,main, rhine cruise. We did not complete the scheduled 14 day cruise we joined on june 7 , 2019 due to an accident in the lock at riegensburg germany .we were not informed by vantage about an altered itinerary until 4 days into this cruise although the accident occurred 2 days ...
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Sail Date: June 2019


Culinary Treasures Paris to Normandy not quite up to the title

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Venture

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artnuvo
2-5 Cruises • Age 80s

Many of the locations were interesting, including Honfleur, and the Giverny,the Normandy Beaches,American Cemetery,Pointe du Hoc, and 2 1/2 days for Paris explorations. One excursion included a visit to a working farm which talked about cheese makingbut did not include a demonstration or show cheese being made or stored--nota wise use of 2 hours. Food service was efficient and lthe menu ...
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Sail Date: October 2018


Itinerary fine, dining/onboard experience, poor

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Splendor

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Basketball wife
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Wanted to visit Budapest and Vienna on a land tour so with the extra ports, seemed to make sense (we are not interested in organized bus tours, but having the same room every night is appealing). While the tours and tour guides were good, the onboard experience was lacking. We are frequent travellers (every two to three months since retiring six years ago) and experienced cruisers ...
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Sail Date: July 2018


Not A France Culinary Delight!

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Venture

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CordovaChick
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

This is a review of our second Vantage European River Cruise entitled “France Culinary Delights: Paris to Normandy” (MS River Venture, 13 days, June 2018). We took our first river cruise last year with Vantage (Majestic Rivers of Europe: Castles, Cathedrals & Fairytales, Budapest to Amsterdam, MS River Splendor, 15 days, June 2017) and rated it five stars. This cruise (2018) was barely three ...
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Sail Date: June 2018


Relaxing week on the Douro--A Different River Cruise

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on Douro Serenity

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FuelScience
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

We sailed on the Serenity in April, 2018. We cruised with Vantage. The trip began with two nights in Madrid. Then we were bused Salamanca for lunch and a walking tour before proceeding to Vega du Terron, Spain where we embarked. As soon as everyone was on the ship, we took a short ~10 minute cruise to Barca d Alva, Portugal. It turns out that it’s a lot easer to load luggage at Vega du Terron. ...
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Sail Date: March 2018


Untrustworthy & Greedy

Review for a Europe - River Cruise Cruise on River Venture

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pensivelaw
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

A couple of things first. Checked Paris for embarkation but it was actually Vernon which is about an hour south of Paris but not on the list. Secondly this trip was supposed to consist of two parts, the cruise itself and the pre cruise excursion I booked to the south of France which comprised 5 of the 12 actual days of travel. Both were purchased thru Vantage and thus are reviewed ...
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Sail Date: October 2017


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