RayColey

We had poor service on our one and only Carnival cruise. Well, that can happen simply because there are one or two disaffected employees sailing on one particular cruise. What was truly awful, though, was the muster (or, really, the lack of it) when almost nobody was paying attention, where they continued to serve drinks poolside and had crew not only tolerating it, but encouraging it - no wonder Carnival has so many mishaps at sea and in dockage! They apparently did not care then, and I won't risk them not caring now. This may be a result (unintended or not) of the company's insistence on bigger ships and more party attitude. (and in the aspect of it, Royal Caribbean is certainly not far behind). A shame, also, because they both at one time had nice, smaller ships, pleasant cruises and interesting ports..

He's a she (one photo holding a drink with an umbrella - a dead giveaway!)

I will ask about Crazie. I have his brother here, and these bears talk to each other...

The train from Vienna is a very fast train... But yes, it's from Venice, and the station is adjacent to the bus terminal right up a short flight of stairs from a vaporetto stop. (It's real close to the cruise ship terminus - of course, Venice wants that cruise ship facility moved to who knows where?)

Plus, we're scoping out a side excursion to Verona (home of Romeo and Juliet) which is just an hour outside of Vienna!! Cost, about $24 per person round trip...

I got the Cliff Notes version, and my eyes glazed over from just reading that.

"Viking has come on the scene with a game changer!" View full cruise review

Hi Ray! We absolutely loved our Christmas Markets river cruise a couple years ago and are hoping to do another one in 2015 or 2016. And a trip to Asia sounds amazing! Keep us posted on your plans! Planning this cruise was a cinch! Jan did all the researching rates and schedules and arranged it all for us - Thanks, Jan!

I'm planning to cruise on the Rhine River for the Christmas Markets in December. Also, there's a possibility of an Asian cruise covering at least China (Yangtze) and Korea (Pusan), perhaps more ports if there's enough time and cash.

I have to assume that they are using older, smaller ships for these cruises - some of the docking facilities along those rivers aren't all that large...

I got the same message too, when I was trying to post a review of my Baltic Sea cruise on Legend of The Seas. I suspect that the narrative portion was too long for the program to handle. Anyway, I offered to email the review to anybody who was interested, and got several requests (to which I responded.) Maybe it will get fixed, maybe not... Over the entire site there are a number of issues.

No, it's an MGA - 1960.

"Four day jaunt to Key West and Cozumel" Click here to view the cruise review