Avalon Waterways Reviews

Excellent food, fine attention to detail for the guests, wonderful wait staff, comfortable room and attendant, interesting well explained side trips.. I enjoyed the river cruise.

This was my very first river cruise. Very happy with the cruise line and the cruise director. The only comment that I would like to make - my husband and I booked the Royal Suite on the Artistry II. Our cruise included two days in Paris at a hotel (Intercontinental). Our room at the hotel was disappointing. We were travelling with our friends - they booked a regular room on the cruise but they managed to get a extraordinary room at the Intercontinental Hotel(balcony, beautiful view of the Opera House, large room too). Based on our booking of the Royal Suite and paying extra for the larger rooms on the ship, I feel that we should have been given extra considerationroom at the Intercontinental than the room we received because we were still on Avalon Cruise.

While there were problems with water levels Avalon adjusted and provided an exceptional river cruise. One particular point to make is that the tour guides were exceptional, well informed and provided many interesting informational facts during their tours. Our on-board tour director was also the best we have experienced.

Enjoyed our cruise along the Rhine. It was well structured with excursions and free time to tour on our own at our own pace, Food was very good. Service was good. Cruise director Maria, was fantastic. This is our third Avalon river cruise and Maria was by far the best cruise director we've encountered. The only draw back during our trip was the low water level along the Rhine, resulting in the need to transfer from one ship to another. This was handled very well by both crews, land and water.

Great weather, high enough water level, knowledgeable tour and cruise director, as always, great food on cruise

We had some very good guides.

Beautiful boat, well maintained. Cruise director, Erik was awesome. So helpful and knowledgeable. Saw just enough to identify places we would visit again.

I can’t say enough about how wonderful the entire Avalon Rhine River Cruise was! The staff, the accommodations, the food, the day trips, everything was above and beyond what we imagined!! Thank you for an awesome adventure.

The River Cruise surely deserves five stars! From the booking with our travel assistant to the crew on board and the guides in each city to the food was absolutely fantastic. All was wrapped up in the beauty of the countries we visited. Avalon is the way to travel and I will go again in the future!

Wonderful experience. Close up with the local communities and the history. Adventurous sites and activities that allow as mich or little as you may wish

Put your stuff in the cabin and spend 7 days seeing the sights with local guides and great food.

Good peopl,excellent food, amazing views/sights/experiences. The variety of experiences and activities provided on "active cruise" added greatly to experience

This was a beautiful trip and I met lots of new friends. It was perfect to have a gentle walking group! I loved all the tours and the food.

Interesting, well planned excursions. Excellent service, friendly, kind staff.

Avalon Waterways are fantastic! We were treated royally and had the times of our lives!

Wonderful, but exhausting, river cruise. Mostly great weather and great tour guides at every port. Two excursions per day of mostly walking, however, was exhausting without enough time to relax. That being said, it is, however, the only way to see the interesting places along the Rhine. So glad we took this cruise.

My husband and I hoped that our Avalon Magnificent European cruise would be the trip of a lifetime. It absolutely was but the professionalism, service and amenities aboard our ship were even better than we expected. The food was outstanding and the organization of the shore excursions could not possibly be handled any better. We look forward to our next trip with Avalon.

Perfect.. great customer service, clean comfortable cabins excellent tours or excursions

Wonderful trip! We lived the ship, the food and the very accommodating staff!