Impulsively grabbed a river cruise when a less than half off sale came up in a 2 week period we had nothing scheduled. Our first river cruise, and only other cruise was close to 30 years ago when pregnant with Youngest and had a 2 year old in tow, so am assuming this will be nothing like that Caribbean mega cruise! Friends and family have strongly recommended Viking, even at full price. The price was well worth the gamble.

Looking for suggestions on international health insurance and medevac insurance. What I have gleamed from past posts seems to be Alliance and MedJet? Anything else? We like the annual plans for the medevac that are also good h(ere in the States, as we are not home much. We are self-insuring for trip cancellation.

There won't be much time in each port, and we are mostly doing the included tours, but open to suggestions. Honestly pumped even about simply walking around the different towns. Late June sailing. This is our itinerary, roughly:

Amsterdam
Kinderdijk, The Netherlands (windmills tour)
Cologne, Germany
Koblenz, Germany
Wertheim, Germany
Würzburg, Germany
Bamberg, Germany
Nuremberg, Germany
Regensburg, Germany
Passau, Germany
Melk, Austria
Vienna, Austria, overnight
Budapest, Hungary

While I have lived in Europe for a total of over 2 years, that was some 40+ years ago and not a huge amount of time spent in this area. Wetting our feet on heading overseas with an organized tour, but happy to abandon the included group tours of the town if there are must sees. We do have a classical concert that we are doing the night we are in Vienna, and very much intending to do other things there.

Any other general suggestions re international travel welcome. Because of the elections and potential for repercussions in Hungary, as well as the potential for fuel shortages, we used Viking to secure our included airfare, making them responsible for the whole trip, rather than risk a disconnect between the flights and the cruise.

Weird being back to being a newbie.

IP
Hoping the world politics go along with our desire to seriously step up travel