Claudia Sails

The advantage of taking a planned group tour is someone else takes care of planning the itinerary and the logistics. The downside is you have to take it or leave it if it isn't really what you want. … (View Post)

Mblang, choosing excursions before the tour is actually pretty rare on Tauck tours and even when you do you aren't locked into them. They just want to get an estimate of interest levels. Once the tou… (View Post)

Maresc, wishing the best. Its a fun cruise. Even just hanging on the ship is special with the amazing decorations and special holiday food and drinks. (View Post)

Concur with comments so far. The gangplanks for river cruise ships are not like the wide and often fixed ones on ocean going ships. They are portable structures the ship takes with them and set up at… (View Post)

Most all the included dinners are in your hotel so little or no outside walking. The only exceptions I see are Oxford and Bath. Like MCD on most tours I wear nice flats. (View Post)