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What is the difference between a river cruise and a sea cruise?
Dear forum users!
I am new to the site and the experience of the experienced is valuable to me. I decided to try a new type of travel - a cruise. And due to total ignorance, I can not decide.
What to choose sea cruise or river cruise?
Who has been on a river cruise - respond. And who tried the sea? Is there a difference between one and the other? When is the best time to go? When is the best price? And most importantly, where to get it - is it an overseas miracle)?
Thanks for any help.
I am new to the site and the experience of the experienced is valuable to me. I decided to try a new type of travel - a cruise. And due to total ignorance, I can not decide.
What to choose sea cruise or river cruise?
Who has been on a river cruise - respond. And who tried the sea? Is there a difference between one and the other? When is the best time to go? When is the best price? And most importantly, where to get it - is it an overseas miracle)?
Thanks for any help.
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A sea cruise, as well as a river cruise, is an amateur.
You are on the ship, you live, you spend the night there, food is also on the ship, basically.
Depending on the ship - its class, size, route, you can pick up something for yourself. And a lot depends on the wallet - how much you are willing to pay.
In my life there was one cruise on the Mediterranean Sea - Greece, Sicily, Syria, Turkey. Cyprus was also announced, but they were not allowed because of the Cypriot strike.
It was a long time ago, maybe now everything has changed, but I don’t go on a cruise anymore.
Tying to a ship is even worse than tying to a bus. Then we got into a storm, it and the pitching, as I now understand, were small, but we had to lie in bed.
There was only one pool, not very big, there were many more vacationers. Sunbathing places were also limited, somehow we had to fight for a place under the sun.
These are my impressions, although at that time everyone was terribly happy, at least from the ship to look at the foreign coast.
You are on the ship, you live, you spend the night there, food is also on the ship, basically.
Depending on the ship - its class, size, route, you can pick up something for yourself. And a lot depends on the wallet - how much you are willing to pay.
In my life there was one cruise on the Mediterranean Sea - Greece, Sicily, Syria, Turkey. Cyprus was also announced, but they were not allowed because of the Cypriot strike.
It was a long time ago, maybe now everything has changed, but I don’t go on a cruise anymore.
Tying to a ship is even worse than tying to a bus. Then we got into a storm, it and the pitching, as I now understand, were small, but we had to lie in bed.
There was only one pool, not very big, there were many more vacationers. Sunbathing places were also limited, somehow we had to fight for a place under the sun.
These are my impressions, although at that time everyone was terribly happy, at least from the ship to look at the foreign coast.
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answered 11 years ago
Thank you so much for your answer to the question of how a river or sea cruise differs from each other.
I understood you correctly if it were not for pitching. then everything else would be quite even buzzing?!
I understood you correctly if it were not for pitching. then everything else would be quite even buzzing?!
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answered 11 years ago
Yes, if it weren’t for the pitching, if you weren’t tied to the ship, because then we only went in groups, if the ship itself were bigger, if there were more entertainment in the evening ...
The ship was called "Mikhail Suslov", then somehow differently, the optometrist Fedorov also performed operations on it, which means pitching was not a problem for him.
This is just my opinion, someone is delighted with cruises.
As for me, the ideal option is not to gallop around Europe, but to choose one country, with or without the sea, and travel slowly.
What is it about cruises that appeals to you?
Yes, and I have not been on river cruises, there is nothing to compare.
The ship was called "Mikhail Suslov", then somehow differently, the optometrist Fedorov also performed operations on it, which means pitching was not a problem for him.
This is just my opinion, someone is delighted with cruises.
As for me, the ideal option is not to gallop around Europe, but to choose one country, with or without the sea, and travel slowly.
What is it about cruises that appeals to you?
Yes, and I have not been on river cruises, there is nothing to compare.
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answered 11 years ago
At the thought of going on a cruise, probably now, at the most, the moment that the cruise is a fashionable and new thing
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answered 11 years ago
Ah.
But then, if you choose the right ship and route, as well as the company, then everything will work out.
But then, if you choose the right ship and route, as well as the company, then everything will work out.
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answered 11 years ago
If they do not open Schengen or another visa, you can go on a cruise on the Nile.
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answered 11 years ago
I liked your idea about the Danube and look what I dug up http://www.royal-cruise.ru/cruises/0-191-kruiz_po_golubomu_dunayu
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answered 11 years ago
And the idea to add three more days in Munich is very relevant for us. The dream of an idiot to try real German beer will come true
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answered 11 years ago
Here I am not an adviser to you, there are cruise offers, your task is to make the right choice, and who knows what you need except you.
I'm not interested in cruises at all.
I'm not interested in cruises at all.
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answered 11 years ago
I decided to consult with you, you seemed to be an objective user, and not an advertiser
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answered 11 years ago
I won’t argue, but now it’s completely different. If you look at the cruise route, you will see that you only spend the night on the ship, but mostly you are in ports and cities where you are given the choice of traveling - or collectively (there are excursions from the ship ) or on your own, if you are ready for it. I have never taken excursions from the ship, I’m interested on my own, although this requires preparation. " This is different.
By pitching. Now all cruise ships are equipped with devices to dampen the pitch. Liners necessarily bypass storm areas. The only place where I felt something similar to pitching was in the Atlantic Ocean and it was less than rocking in a train.
On Schengen visas. I don’t know of cases where Schengen was not given on a cruise. This is not a bus tour, where some people go to stay in Europe as migrant workers.
By pitching. Now all cruise ships are equipped with devices to dampen the pitch. Liners necessarily bypass storm areas. The only place where I felt something similar to pitching was in the Atlantic Ocean and it was less than rocking in a train.
On Schengen visas. I don’t know of cases where Schengen was not given on a cruise. This is not a bus tour, where some people go to stay in Europe as migrant workers.
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answered 11 years ago
And about the wallet! Now the prices for sea cruises have become at a level commensurate with the prices of Turkish or Egyptian fives, but again everything depends on the appetites of vacationers, comfort is at the level of good fives on the shore. .But you can also take the Royal Suites with pianos and butlers.
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answered 11 years ago
I would even say that they are not only comparable in price, but even the same Turkish "fives".
I wanted to go on a cruise in the spring, I signed up for a newsletter with DirectCruises, sometimes they send prices that are simply ridiculous ... I don’t give a link, it’s not welcome here, but you can google the site.
And on the Holland website, America subscribed to the newsletter, so the next day there was a call from the office of the Kiev TO "Antares" asking how they could help, and they say, buy these cruises from us. I'm a little freaked out, to be honest... Is this a normal practice when a foreign TO, roughly speaking, leaks the data of its site's subscribers to left-wing offices?
I wanted to go on a cruise in the spring, I signed up for a newsletter with DirectCruises, sometimes they send prices that are simply ridiculous ... I don’t give a link, it’s not welcome here, but you can google the site.
And on the Holland website, America subscribed to the newsletter, so the next day there was a call from the office of the Kiev TO "Antares" asking how they could help, and they say, buy these cruises from us. I'm a little freaked out, to be honest... Is this a normal practice when a foreign TO, roughly speaking, leaks the data of its site's subscribers to left-wing offices?
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answered 11 years ago
In the first sentence, the word "cheaper" is missing. A week of a normal cruise is cheaper than a week in the Turkish "five".
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answered 11 years ago
And I have already chosen a Danube cruise on the Royal Cruise website for the May holidays. We will see Germany, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia in eight days on a wonderful river ship MS Belvedere of a German company. The price is very pleasant according to the fortune system.
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answered 11 years ago
Pachok! TO "Antares" represents the interests of Holland and a number of other cruise companies in Ukraine. I went from them to MSC "Splendida" through Gibraltar to Casablanca, my son around Europe on "Eurodaam" from Holland. So the office is not left and can be trusted. Americans do not sell cruises directly to Ukraine or Russia. The same with Royal Caribbean International. They are represented in Kyiv by Express Voyage.
DirectCruiser shows prices, in my opinion, net without port fees and a number of other surcharges. This must be taken into account.
DirectCruiser shows prices, in my opinion, net without port fees and a number of other surcharges. This must be taken into account.
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answered 11 years ago
I looked at the wonderful Belvedere ship. The lower deck with a window is about 900 euros per person. I write that river tours are much more expensive than sea tours. .
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answered 11 years ago
You are of course right that river cruises are more expensive than sea cruises. But I really want to see Vienna and Budapest, drink German beer. Oops ... but there is no sea in those parts. Therefore, we are on the Danube in these May holidays!
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answered 11 years ago
Yes, I somehow understand that "there is no sea in those parts"! I'm just not ready to pay more for that service, already knowing what the service is on modern cruise ships and what I will see in the same 8 days Mediterranean. But this is your choice, everyone chooses his own.
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answered 11 years ago
alex45, I'm not against Antares, I was shocked that a serious company, as they say, without declaring war, without warning, even sent my data to their partners!
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answered 11 years ago
shitueva2000, when choosing a tour along the Danube, pay attention to the Wachau Valley, which is 100 km from Vienna. Stunningly beautiful towns Melk, Krems, Dürnstein ... The real Austrian life. I was last year at the May-sea of impressions. The only thing is that it was in those parts in June that there were floods - I saw a photo of the flooded Melk (its flat part, because there are hilly terrain and urban centers, temples are often on the hills) and some villages. I think we've already done it.
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answered 11 years ago
I just noted that it would not be possible to book cruises to Ukraine directly through cruise companies, they send requests to their representatives in the regions. We are not US residents for them, we tried it ourselves. And the prices for cruises are the same, they play with discounts.
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answered 11 years ago
I understood, thank you. The question is whether I want to transfer my data to third parties (any). At the very least, they had to notify me themselves that they were working for Ukraine through such and such a TO, and ask if I objected to the data being transferred.
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answered 11 years ago