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Originally Posted by VICAR OF DIBLEY
Hi,
I did not read through all the posts on this subject. Sorry - have a sinus infection and am not up to reading.
When you check out river cruise lines please ask about beds. Friends of ours took a river cruise - their bed was a fold out futon chair. This meant if they wanted to lie down during the day, they had to make up their bed from the futon.
Some river cruise lines offer quite a few optional tours, others have these tours included as part of the tours that are included. We have been on AMA and Uniglobe and they offered about two optional tours respectively. Viking offered numerous optional tours.
Viking has an excellent advertising campaign. Wen they promote a special and say it will end the end of the month it will not. They end a campaign when X number of staterooms are sold, therefore you can see the same campaign with a diffeerent end date. There fares are worded so that it sounds like you will save a lot of money compared to other ricer cruise lines - sometimes you do and sometimes you do not.
River cruise companies that are rated by the travel industry have other cruise lines rated much higher than Viking, If you feel you want to go on a higher rated river cruise line, you can always call the line and ask them if they will match the price and/or ask them what they are offering that Viking isn't.
I have done the above and have been successful 100% of the time.
Hope some of this info is helpful.
Vicar
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Thanks for the advice about calling and asking if they can match prices and whar they are offering that Viking is not.
Hope you a feeling a little better today!
Pizzalady