During our journey for the recent river cruise our trans-Atlantic flights took us as far as Austria, where we spent one night at an airport hotel and then flew Austrian Airlines from Vienna to Zagreb. That was about a 1 hour flight, and for a little over $100 total we could upgrade to business class….
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Danube River Cruise Croatia to the Black Sea It is pretty easy to do a ship review for Avalon Waterways because all their ships sailing on the Danube are pretty much the same. We once again had a panoramic suite with the full size bath and floor to ceiling panoramic windows that…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Danube River Cruise Croatia to the Black Sea This dining review will focus on both the meals we had during tours and the food onboard. I was very pleased with both. Our first meal that was included for us was our lunch in Zagreb during our guided day tour. I was not…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Danube River Cruise Croatia to the Black Sea We disembarked from the river and then took about a two hour drive via coach to Bucharest where our local tour guide took us to the very larger Government Administration and Parliament building that was built during the Nicolae Ceaușescu rule of Romania. The…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Danube River Cruise Croatia to the Black Sea I am not sure what we were expecting to see in Transylvania, but a Royal Saxon city was certainly not high on the list. The beautiful city of Brasov was once a royal city in the Austria-Hungarian empire. It architecture and beauty far surpassed…
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