7 Things River Cruise Lines Won't Show You on The Adverts

I love river cruising but there are so many things that the river cruise lines will not tell you and they actively try and hide on their adverts I'm on a river cruise right now you can watch the scenery going by and I'm gonna tell you everything this video isn't designed to put you off river cruising river cruising it's fantastic but I just think it's much better to be prepared and know that these things are gonna happen before you go in your first river cruise river cruise ships dock together all the time I can't think of any cruise itinerary where you won't at some point to be docked next to another cruise ship it can be quite weird I was watching a film on long river cruise and it got darker and darker as another cruise ship came up next to us there was actually a man there in just his underwear and all of a sudden he was looking at me and I was laying on my bed and I was looking at him and it was all very very strange but this happens all the time river cruises are brilliant and that means that the rivers are getting busier and busier it's not uncommon to have two or three or four ships all docked right next to each other and if you're number four what you're gonna have to walk over all through the other cruise ships to get to land it's very very common but they definitely do not show you that on the others on some river cruises you'll be able to walk right through the middle of another ship to get off some won't allow you to walk through the middle and you have to walk over the top that's just worth bearing in mind if you're not particularly good with steps because sometimes you do have quite a lot of steps to walk up to the top deck across across and back down because their ships are dock to the line they don't always leave in the right order they don't organize it so that this guy can go and then the next one and the next one sometimes they'll be four in a line and number three needs to move which means that one and two will just float out into the river and number three will go this can be quite strange if you're on an excursion and you come back and you see your ship is leaving or it is floating around the river it will come back if you are back before you all aboard time the ship will come back don't worry that it has gone without you it can be a bit confusing especially if you're in a place where there are loads and loads of river ships if you're in somewhere like Amsterdam there might be ten river ships docked there and if you're always thinking oh I'm the one that is docked behind this don't think that because you might come back and that ship is not there and it can be very very confusing on a lot of river cruise ships you're not going to be able to get to the top deck if you can not climb stairs I'm on a cycle ship right now and this one does have a stair lift but that is not normal a lot of river cruise ships you can't get to the top in a lift this is because when the ship goes under rivers they squish down everything on the top deck so lifts literally cannot get to the top deck it's not really a problem for me but it's just something to notice with river ships if you do have disabilities river cruising can be quite difficult there's often long distances you need to walk you need to walk over other ships you need to get to the top deck it is completely possible to do it in a wheelchair but it would be horrible to have to miss out on things like ever getting to the top deck because you can't walk up stairs so make sure you pick the right cruise ship river cruises go through docks a lot and it may happen in the day or it may happen at nighttime when it happens at night zone and you don't know that it's gonna happen it can be a little bit confusing and almost a little bit scary this happened to us quite a few times who would be asleep and the ship would start shuddering it does sort of vibrate and make a kind of squeaky noises when you're going through a lock it's fine in the day because you can see oh there is a massive concrete wall next to me you must be going through a lock but if it's nighttime and you're laying in bed and you start to hear is like it's a little bit scary a lot of passengers do wake up when you go through looks at night I can't say that it bothers me I've never really woken up because of a lock but I could sleep honestly through anything it's just something to bear in mind because if you are a light sleeper and you book a river that has lots and lots of locks you might be woken up a few times in the night personally I love locks I think they're really fun I think they are engineering masterpieces and being up on the top deck when you're going through a lock is really really cool if you're like me and you do enjoy them it's just an added perk but I know some people do find locks kind of annoying river cruise itineraries do change your Lots due to water levels sometimes a cruise will be canceled completely recently there was a lot of low water and it meant some people had to do cruises entirely by bus or by coach water levels affect everything on a river cruise and it's really really common to have your itinerary changed if the water levels are too high or too low or whatever the problem is with the water levels the ships cannot sail they literally cannot sail and there are no other options of them to put the passengers in hotels so it's always a risk with river cruising there's not really anything you can do about it it doesn't really matter when you book or where you go it's just a risk you have to take if you are booking a river cruise you will be looked after by the river cruise line but it's just something to bear in mind when you look at a river cruise advert you're gonna see everyone up on the top deck sunning themselves as you sail by and on some rivers that is completely possible we're cruising on the Danube at the moment and we have spent so much time on the top deck but not all rivers are like this some rivers have a lot of bridges and when you're on a river with bridges that often squish down everything on the top deck and you're not allowed to go up there I have been on the river cruise before when we never actually got to go on the top deck when we were sailing we were always just sailing at night for a few hours or we were going under bridges it wasn't really a problem I didn't know what I was missing until I came on this cruise and being able to sit up on the top deck bing-bong having said that the fact that we've had a lot of time to sit on the top deck while sailing is because we haven't really spent that long in any port on my last River cruise we would be docked from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. or maybe even longer but on this Danube cruise we seem to have only been docked for the morning or an afternoon it's definitely worthwhile doing your research and having a look at how long you gonna spend in each port and on which river because some rivers really lend themselves to these nice sailing days with lots and lots of time on the ship and other rivers are lots and lots of time this video is not intended in any way to put you off river cruising I love river cruising it is so much fun but it's definitely better to be prepared and to know that these things are going to happen before you go in your first river cruise it can be a bit confusing when you're in your room and you're watching a movie and then all of a sudden another ship comes up next to you and there is a man there in its underwear and you just didn't expect it whereas if you know I mean it probably still would be a bit weird but it would be less weird thank you for watching this please subscribe I have loads more river cruise content on this channel so I'll see you in the next video [Music] [Music]

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2019