European river cruise lines?

About three months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup regarding this
subject. Three lines were mentioned: Viking, Uniworld, and Deilmann.
IIRC the poster liked Viking best, but also liked the other two.

A relative of my wife's recommended Vantage, although she had not
personally cruised on it. Does anybody here have experience with Vantage?


Thanks,

Tom

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About three months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup regarding
this
subject. Three lines were mentioned: Viking, Uniworld, and Deilmann.
IIRC the poster liked Viking best, but also liked the other two.

A relative of my wife's recommended Vantage, although she had not
personally cruised on it. Does anybody here have experience with Vantage?


Thanks,

Tom

We have only cruised on Vantage one time, just this past May. We took a
cruise from Vienna to the Black Sea and Bucharest. It was 17 days, and we
thought it was one of our best cruises. Excellent tours off ship, and
excellent entertainment and meals on the ship.

We had compared the same trip with Viking and Uniworld, and thought we would
like the overall stops the best with Vantage.

Will be happy to send you directly our recap of the trip if you reply to me
directly.

Joe in Texas

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:28:41 GMT, tom wrote:

About three months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup regarding this
subject. Three lines were mentioned: Viking, Uniworld, and Deilmann.
IIRC the poster liked Viking best, but also liked the other two.

A relative of my wife's recommended Vantage, although she had not
personally cruised on it. Does anybody here have experience with Vantage?


Thanks,

Tom

MSNBC had an article about this topic a few days ago. It seemed like
all the rooms on all the lines I checked were very small.

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"tom" wrote in message
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About three months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup
regarding
this
subject. Three lines were mentioned: Viking, Uniworld, and
Deilmann. IIRC the poster liked Viking best, but also liked the other
two.

A relative of my wife's recommended Vantage, although she had not
personally cruised on it. Does anybody here have experience with
Vantage?


Thanks,

Tom

We have only cruised on Vantage one time, just this past May. We took
a cruise from Vienna to the Black Sea and Bucharest. It was 17 days,
and we thought it was one of our best cruises. Excellent tours off
ship, and excellent entertainment and meals on the ship.

We had compared the same trip with Viking and Uniworld, and thought we
would like the overall stops the best with Vantage.

Will be happy to send you directly our recap of the trip if you reply
to me directly.

Joe in Texas




Thanks to you, Joe, and to Brian for responding. Your responses were
quite helpful. I have one further question if anybody can help. At
least a couple of the websites hinted at, but did not directly say, that
they were looking for very old passengers. I don't think that my wife
and I would feel comfortable on a ship where almost everybody is very
old. Can anybody give me a general idea of the age ranges on the
various cruise lines mentioned?


Thanks,

Tom

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"tom" wrote in message
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About three months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup
regarding
this
subject. Three lines were mentioned: Viking, Uniworld, and
Deilmann. IIRC the poster liked Viking best, but also liked the other
two.

A relative of my wife's recommended Vantage, although she had not
personally cruised on it. Does anybody here have experience with
Vantage?


Thanks,

Tom

We have only cruised on Vantage one time, just this past May. We took
a cruise from Vienna to the Black Sea and Bucharest. It was 17 days,
and we thought it was one of our best cruises. Excellent tours off
ship, and excellent entertainment and meals on the ship.

We had compared the same trip with Viking and Uniworld, and thought we
would like the overall stops the best with Vantage.

Will be happy to send you directly our recap of the trip if you reply
to me directly.

Joe in Texas




Thanks to you, Joe, and to Brian for responding. Your responses were
quite helpful. I have one further question if anybody can help. At
least a couple of the websites hinted at, but did not directly say, that
they were looking for very old passengers. I don't think that my wife
and I would feel comfortable on a ship where almost everybody is very
old. Can anybody give me a general idea of the age ranges on the
various cruise lines mentioned?


Thanks,

Tom

I would imagine you would find all ages, but those on our Vantage Danube
cruise were probably 90% retired individuals, amongst a total of 161
passengers. Just a guess, but the average age might have been around 65.
The seating for meals was open, and we found everyone quite friendly and
good trip companions.

Joe

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Tom

I would imagine you would find all ages, but those on our Vantage Danube
cruise were probably 90% retired individuals, amongst a total of 161
passengers. Just a guess, but the average age might have been around 65.
The seating for meals was open, and we found everyone quite friendly and
good trip companions.

Joe




Thanks.

--Tom