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Avalon Imagery II Cruise Review to River Cruises - Europe

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 27

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
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Avalon Imagery II

12 Night The Rhine & Moselle With Lucerne - Southbound (Amsterdam To Lucerne)

Sail date: June 23, 2022

Ship: Avalon Imagery II

Cabin number: 226

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

This was my 3rd cruise and my first river cruise. I throughly enjoyed it. The leg down the Moschelle river was particularly beautiful with the vineyards along the river bank hills. The food was a pleasant surprise. Portion size was great and I don't think I had a bad dish. I even tried the vegetarian options a couple of nights and they were delicious! I can't say enough good things about the staff. They were all very attentive. I enjoyed my excursions with Igor the Adventure host.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Hotel representative was very helpful

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
The food was better than I expected. It was delicious. I particularly enjoyed having the option of a light lunch or bistro dinner in the lounge each day/night. I appreciated the kitchen's effort to serve local favorites when possible. It would have been nice to have had a greater variety of local wines offered.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5
There really wasn't a lot of activities offered. The one whirlpool was small and a little bit of a joke.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
The evening entertainment was just so so. Nothing to write home about.

Children's Programs

None offered

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Service was excellent. Bogdan and Christina were outstanding servers. Tre did an wonderful job keeping our room services. Merry was always helpful at the front desk. And Ingrid did a fabulous job as cruise director keeping it all together and addressing issues as they came up.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Ship was always clean and well maintained. Layout was good. I particularly liked the rear lounge. The upper sun deck was also wonderful.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Cabin was nice and for a cruise ship, adequately sized.

Ports of call

Amsterdam, Netherlands

5 out of 5
Loved Amsterdam. I'd go back again.

Cologne, Germany

4 out of 5
Very crowded but I did enjoy the cathdral and our Jewish Heritage tour guide.

Cochem, Germany

5 out of 5

Remich, Luxembourg

3 out of 5
Didn't care for the Luxembourg excursion. Just kind of boring.

Bernkastel, Germany

5 out of 5

Koblenz, Germany

5 out of 5

Speyer, Germany

5 out of 5

Strasbourg, France

5 out of 5
I really enjoyed this port. Strasbourg was beautiful

Breisach Am Rhine, Germany

4 out of 5

Basel, Switzerland

3 out of 5
Just disembarked here.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Overall it was good. The only complaint was we ended up at our hotel in Zurich about 6 hours before we could check in. We ended up having to kill some time.
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