We are also trying a river cruise for the first time.....and we are experienced ocean cruisers. WE organized a river/land cruise group on AMA Waterways starting in Paris (3 nights), travelling through central Germany and ending in Prague (2 nights) for Early October. Its 14 nights but only 7 are on water. We chose this particular cruise because we did not know what to expect (ie would we be bored in the evenings) and it gives us a chance to see two key capital citices of Europe Paris and Prague.. River cruising is not cheap and we selected a cruise that is NOT a value river cruise..ie we did NOT select this based on price (although we got a good price number of incentives...its not the cheapest in town) We do expect better wines to be served with dinner along with better amenities such as bikes being offered at no cost at most ports of call. The cabin does not look like a college dorm room with sparce furnishings and 2 beds against separate walls but more like a upper class hotel room. AMA offers 3 levels of walking tours from the slow to aggressive and also offers in most locations, like the previous poster stated, a bus tour to some particular location.
We have 2 cabins still available for our cruise in October ...if interested drop me a PM. BTW the group is formed only to secure group pricing. The TA will assist in securing flight arrangemetns, and answering all questions, and once you arrive you will be under the control of an AMA representative.
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