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9 Reasons To Do A European River Cruise
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Jan 29, 2025
Do you want to travel to and around Europe? Are you thinking of doing a European River cruise and are not sure if it is for you? Wondering if perhaps a land-based trip would be a better way to tour Europe? Then this video should help. Based on my river cruise experiences I talk about 9 things to consider about cruising the rivers of Europe. I explore advantages such as the ease, simplicity and benefits of seeing and travelling around Europe on a river cruise ship. Some of the reasons to consider are likely to surprise (and may convince travellers who are not even considering or think river cruising is not for them) #rivercruise #rivercruising #europeanrivercruise Subscribe and get a new video every week to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on both land and at sea: http://bit.ly/TFT_YouTube2 Support the channel by booking your next cruise and for the best deals on CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-8330795-10511118 Consider becoming a Tips For Travellers Patron. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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in this video you're going to discover
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nine reasons to do a European river
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cruise hi I'm Gary Bainbridge and this
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more travel tips and advice one of the
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best reasons for taking European river
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cruise is simple it removes all the
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hassles and stress and strains of
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planning a trip around Europe once
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you've chosen your itinerary and booked
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the river cruise line takes care of
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everything some will even go as far as a
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range of transportation and picking up
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from your home and taking it to the
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airport and seeing it all the way
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through to the ship and back but the
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great news is once you've booked it
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pretty much everything's included so you
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know the total cost of your vacation so
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most cruise lines are pretty
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all-inclusive including your food you'll
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drink excursions and things like Wi-Fi
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so you'll find largely you know the
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whole price of your trip once you've
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booked it
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so once you've paid for that holiday
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there's going to be very few extras all
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your meals are taken care of or your
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place is to go and see your excursions
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are taken care of and so your whole time
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is just going with the flow knowing that
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they have sorted out everything another
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great reason is that it really gives you
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a great immersion into a region so River
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Cruises tend to travel relatively
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shorter distances and as you call it
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lots of different ports of call and see
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lots of sites within that stretch of the
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region so it really does get a chance to
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immerse yourself and understand that
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region in great detail so you'll go and
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see lots of places
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also the Cruise Line will tend to tailor
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the food and drink based on the region
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you're going through or the tour's will
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be with local guides who really live and
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know the region the other great thing is
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you'll often find that you will stay
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overnight or certainly way into the
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evening in many of the places you call
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on so you have a chance to go out and
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yourself explore the culture or the food
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or the restaurants or the nightlife also
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River cruise ships will tend to dock
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right in the heart of the town the
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cities so you're right there in the
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center of things you can just roll off
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and feel and see all around you the
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culture and what's happening in a
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particular region so you right
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in the heart of things most river cruise
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lines will also bring onboard local
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speakers or local entertainers so you'll
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get a sense of some of the local culture
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with its musicians singers or actors and
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there were also give you poor talks and
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give you some background and detail on
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the places that you're visiting so it's
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really great for immersing yourself into
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a region of course another great reason
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for going on the river cruise through
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Europe is you get to explore and see the
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iconic and the really important parts of
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Europe and its history
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so the magnificent and big rivers like
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the Rhine the Danube the Seine the doís
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Rho the Lua these or sell through really
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important parts of Europe and lots of
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history has happened along the rivers
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and many of the really important cities
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and towns are right there on the river
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because this is of course the way that
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many cultures and countries developed
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and grew and all of the history happened
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close to the rivers so you get to see
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and explore the really important parts
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of Europe another consideration for
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taking a river cruise is it's a great
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safe and secure way of traveling so if
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you want to go and explore Europe of
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course there's lots of different
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languages lots of different cultures
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lots of different things that you might
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need to navigate the bunch of going on a
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river cruise is you have a tour manager
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you have lots of guests around you so
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you always got people that you can turn
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to and rely on if you need help or
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guidance and they are with you and to
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help guide and support you as you travel
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these foreign countries also really
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really important is what happens is most
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of the river cruise lines during the
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season will do the same itinerary
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back-to-back so they really know the
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rivers and the towns incredibly well so
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if you have any issues or problems they
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know how to solve all of those in each
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of the places you go to also because
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you're on a river you're always near
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towns and near land so you always have
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the security of knowing that if you have
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any issues of problems or queries you're
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right there near to land and support if
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you need it and of course related to
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that is there's no chance of getting
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seasick
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because there's no real motion onboard
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river cruises it really is a really safe
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and secure way of traveling because
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these cruise lines are the tour managers
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know there's these stretch of the river
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so so well the fact that you only have
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to pack and unpack once but actually see
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big parts of Europe in fact
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often many different countries of Europe
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is a real plus so you basically once
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you're on board and you've unpacked and
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settled in you can move between
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countries you can move between places
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without losing downtown because actually
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the cruising experience in the traveling
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time becomes part of the vacation
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because your site's in whereas if you're
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traveling in other ways by bus or you're
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traveling by plane there's a lot of
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downtime because you know a bus you're
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on often on motorways planes you of
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course you caught up in airports but
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here you actually are able to travel a
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nice calm sedate civilized way with
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great scenery
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so actually your travel time becomes
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part of your vacation time so it's a
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very efficient way of seeing it because
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you don't have a lot of downtime so
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actually if you want to see Europe river
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cruising through Europe is a very
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efficient way of using your vacation
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time another great reason for going on a
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river cruise around Europe is the
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accommodation so you get to have a
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really comfortable cabin obviously the
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grade of cabin depends a lot based on
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whether you've one very premium you're
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going more value but you have your
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beautiful cabin which has comfortable
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beds your own bathroom do you don't have
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to worry about having different hotels
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which may vary in quality you can have
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one beautiful room that you travel for
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your whole time on a cruise and the
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accommodation onboard river cruise ships
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although they're relatively small
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because of the size of ships they are
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very comfortable even on the value lines
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you're gonna find a great comfortable
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room that can travel with you the whole
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way through your European experience
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food is another really important reason
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for taking European River cruise you
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know five-star dining no matter which
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cruise line you go on many of them have
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relationships without the Michelin or
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other famous celebrity chefs food is a
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really important part of river cruising
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and they will often and then link the
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food to the region you're traveling
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through but you're guaranteed to have
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great food so you don't have to worry
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about finding restaurants and navigating
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all of that problem you're gonna have
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three meals a day often you also going
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to have afternoon tea and you're going
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to have multiple courses with great
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local wines and great food and because
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the way that River Cruises work and they
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don't lots of storage they also pick up
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fresh ingredients as they constantly
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travel so you're always going to have
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great fresh local produce often bought
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from local markets and then
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at night but great dining is really
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important so through European River
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cruise you guaranteed to have great
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timing
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without him to worry about finding a
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great restaurant another great reason
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for doing you european river cruises
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unlike if you're going ocean cruising
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where you can have really great big
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ships it's a quite an intimate
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experience because of the nature of the
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rivers these ships are limited in size
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and width so you normally have around
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about 100 120 passengers at merged
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onboard your ship so it's a pretty
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intimate experience and it's very easy
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to get to know people also you like to
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have quite a Dalek Spearin snow some
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cruise lines only will have adults of
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example Viking is adults only other
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cruise lines are starting to try to
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attract more families and that tends to
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be more in this is the key summer
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vacation months but you're likely to
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have a very an experience if you're
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looking for a very adult vacation you
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could find that onboard a european river
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cruise boat so you can actually have a
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small intimate adult experience river
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cruising in europe is not a big family
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activity at this point in time so
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whichever cruise you go on your life
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find it a very adult experience one of
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the great things about going on a
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european river cruise and i think one of
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the really important reasons for
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choosing to see europe on a european
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river cruise is it's so easy and so much
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less stressful than arranging a
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land-based trip so you're going to cover
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a lot of territory you're gonna see lots
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of places and you can do it without any
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of the hassle and strain and stress of a
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land-based trip if you're on land-based
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trip you have to constantly worry about
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how you gonna move between places you
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have to worry about the language making
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sure that you find great places to eat
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on european river cruise that's all
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sorted you get on board the ship they
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have sorted out the right things to see
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they've sorted out the fact you can have
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Wi-Fi you don't worry about having
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currents you not to worry about language
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you just gonna have a comfortable room
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and great food hope you found that
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helpful that's given you 9 good reasons
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why you should do a european river
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cruise it's a great experience and i
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strongly recommend that you do it if you
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enjoyed this video i have many more
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other videos about river cruising in
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europe which I'd love you to take a look
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at because you'll find many more ideas
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and tips and inspiration to help you
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have a great time traveling and River
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cruisin
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