{"id":4166,"date":"2012-04-19T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2012-04-19T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:54:29","slug":"update-on-river-cruises-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2012\/04\/19\/update-on-river-cruises-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on River Cruises in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft zemanta-img\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cruise_ship_on_the_Danube_side_view.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cruise_ship_on_the_Danube_side_view.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Deutsch: Ein Binnen-Kreuzfahrtschiff auf der D...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/80\/Cruise_ship_on_the_Danube_side_view.jpg\/300px-Cruise_ship_on_the_Danube_side_view.jpg\" alt=\"Deutsch: Ein Binnen-Kreuzfahrtschiff auf der D...\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>I wrote last year about a great idea for a<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/regnordman.com\/2011\/05\/20\/very-good-value-for-a-fall-european-river-cruise-package-for-two-is-going-going\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/regnordman.com\/2011\/05\/20\/very-good-value-for-a-fall-european-river-cruise-package-for-two-is-going-going\/\"> river cruise<\/a> in Europe this year. http:\/\/regnordman.com\/2011\/05\/20\/very-good-value-for-a-fall-european-river-cruise-package-for-two-is-going-going\/<\/p>\n<p>Here is a comment from a friend who took this cruise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The trip was great.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We were impressed with the boat, the crew &amp; staff, the tours and the tour guides.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rating\u00a0 4 out of 5. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Europe is getting lots of attention\u00a0 these days for travel , ( Strong loonie, Mexico uggh, growing desires for a bit more luxury in a trip &#8211; our backpacking days seem behind us) .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These trips are full usually 12 months in advance. \u00a0 As\u00a0 a result river cruise firms\u00a0 do not often offer incentives.\u00a0 One came by today to my wife (anordman@cruiseshipcenters.com) for next year\u00a0 where Viking are offering some\u00a0 shipboard credits\u00a0 on a new boats cruise bookings to Russia, Ukraine and China Itineraries.( If you book by June 30, 2012.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Russian itinerary:<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/russia_ukraine\/index.aspx');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/russia_ukraine\/index.aspx\">http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/russia_ukraine\/index.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the Asian itinerary:<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/asia\/index.aspx');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/asia\/index.aspx\">http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/asia\/index.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russian boats sound quite intriguing<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/russia-river-cruises\/news\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/russia-river-cruises\/news\/\">http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/russia-river-cruises\/news\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new ship for the Yangtze tour is pretty spiffy<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/cruiseships\/asia\/viking-emerald\/shipinfo.aspx');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/cruiseships\/asia\/viking-emerald\/shipinfo.aspx\">http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/cruiseships\/asia\/viking-emerald\/shipinfo.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/islandtimetravel.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/26\/river-cruising-is-booming\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/islandtimetravel.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/26\/river-cruising-is-booming\/\" target=\"_blank\">River Cruising is Booming<\/a> (islandtimetravel.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=2bbdbabd-4518-4c66-9466-b45496e7b6dd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote last year about a great idea for a river cruise in Europe this year. http:\/\/regnordman.com\/2011\/05\/20\/very-good-value-for-a-fall-european-river-cruise-package-for-two-is-going-going\/<\/p>\n<p>Here is a comment from a friend who took this cruise<\/p>\n<p>    The trip was great.<br \/>\n    We were impressed with the boat, the crew &#038; staff, the tours and the tour guides.<br \/>\n    Rating  4 out of 5.<\/p>\n<p>Europe is getting lots of attention  these days for travel , ( Strong loonie, Mexico fears, growing desires for a bit more luxury in a trip &#8211; our backpacking days seem behind us) .    These trips are full usually 12 months in advance.   As  a result river cruise firms  do not often offer incentives.  One came by today to my wife (anordman@cruiseshipcenters.com) for next year  where Viking are offering some  shipboard credits  on a brand new boat cruise bookings to Russia, Ukraine and China Itineraries. If you book by June 30, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the Russian itinerary:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/russia_ukraine\/index.aspx<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Asian itinerary:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/regions\/asia\/index.aspx<\/p>\n<p>The Russian boats sound quite intriguing<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/russia-river-cruises\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>The new ship for the Yangtze tour is pretty spiffy<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/cruiseships\/asia\/viking-emerald\/shipinfo.aspx<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1060,1539,1541,2770,1540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}