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Service Recognized in Mystery Shopper Win

We’re delighted to have been named Winner in Travel Weekly’s Mystery Shopper exercise. Focussed on river cruise specialists, scoring was based on knowledge & expertise as well as service and the overall client experience. The weighting for each is shown below, we scored 89%. 50% – Advice & Product Knowledge 25% – Customer Service 15% […]

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MS William Shakespeare Review

A look at the New MS William Shakespeare from Riviera Travel Riviera Travel have commissioned another new river cruise vessel for the 2014 season, the MS William Shakespeare.  We take look at how she will stack up against the competition from their own fleet and across the other river cruise operators.

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Avalon Waterways Avalon Vista Review

For those of you who have just started to think about river cruising and have only heard of and like the look of Viking, I would like to suggest looking at the Avalon waterways fleet as a great alternative when making your decision.

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Review of Nile Cruise Ship MS Grand Rose

There is a baffling array of different ships that can and do cruise the Nile, how on earth do you choose the one that will suit you best?  I have been lucky enough to cruise the river Nile on board the MS Grand Rose and hope that this Nile cruise review will help you choose. […]

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Mobility Issues and River Cruising

I do get often asked about how suitable river cruising is for people with mobility issues.  It does of course come down to the judgement of the potential cruiser but I hope that the following bits of information and suggestions may make you feel more confident about whether a river cruise will suit your mobility […]

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MS Lord Byron River Cruise Review

So you’ve found a fabulous river cruise aboard the absolutely amazing MS Lord Byron – but is the ship “truly one of the finest ships of this type afloat anywhere in the world” as described in Riviera Travel’s brochure?

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SS Antoinette Review – Day 7

Today was our final full day on the SS Antoinette.  The Uniworld staff are exceptionally good.  As usual we were greeted at breakfast by smiling staff asking us how we were and following up on our conversations from yesterday.  This is not over the top hospitality but a high level of care from staff, that […]

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SS Antoinette Review – Day 6

We sailed this morning to Koblenz and arrived at 10am.  It is worth mentioning that you can’t feel the motion at all on the SS Antoinette or hear any engine noise.  You are only alerted to movement by looking out of a window.  As someone who feels seasick at the slightest movement it was a […]

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SS Antoinette Review Day 5

This morning we woke in Rudesheim, the most famous wine town in the region.  We had a more leisurely start to our the day on the SS Antoinette as we were taken to a wine tasting at Castle Vollrads at 10am.  For those who were up earlier there was an excursion to the Mechanical Museum […]

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Review of the MS Lord Byron

The Lord Byron moved to a new home in the South of France.  She sails the beautiful Rivers Rhone and Saone from Lyon to Avignon. Browse cruises featuring the MS Lord Byron. Click here. ——————————————————————————————————————– Well I’m now back in England and reminiscing about my time on the MS Lord Byron. I thought I’d take the […]

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SS Antoinette Review Day Four

We woke up today to find the SS Antoinette still cruising to Germersheim, the stopping-off point for Speyer.  There was also a signature lecture this morning, nice and early at 8.30 am entitled “The European City from the Middle Ages to “Modern Times” by Sven Matthiesen. Visiting Speyer from the SS Antoinette A 20-minute bus […]

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Uniworld’s SS Antoinette Review Day Three

A foggy start to the morning awaited us and after breakfast on the SS Antoinette at quay in Kehl, our stopping off point for Strasbourg, (one of the Rhine’s less picturesque moorings from what we could see through the fog) we set off from the SS Antoinette by coach to the capital of the Alsace […]

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