Jimmy_Buffett

Thanks HT,

This is great news,we are one day behind you on VE Modi,and have just finished fully unpacking.

2 hours ago, HawaiiTraveler said:

We are traveling on Viking Skadi from Budapest (Komárom) to Amsterdam, and left Passau last night. We are currently on the way to Regensburg and have been told that we will not be having a ship swap and will stay on Viking Skadi all the way to Amsterdam. We docked between Passau and Regensburg in the middle of the night, and I asked the crew why we had stopped. The answer was that water levels were rising from rain near the Black Forest, and that we were waiting for the river to rise a bit more. We then departed at around 5:30am and are currently bound for Regensburg. I saw what looked like an extremely low water area near a large power plant along the river. There were a lot of rocks showing and the ship slowed down considerably as we traversed that area. Otherwise, we are moving steadily.

Indeed, this is a  cliffhanger we are following closely as we are on the Viking Modi from B to A and arriving shortly at Melk for a tour,it is raining quite a bit,and no mention of a ship swap yet. But I will keep you posted. 

We haven't fully unpacked our bags yet waiting to hear about Sunday first.

Our two days of deviation on Viking this week.

23 hours ago, notamermaid said:

Lunch on the excursion boat. That is a nice idea to bridge that gap of river and time. I doubt it will be sumptuous, probably more typical German fare. Enjoyable nevertheless with all the castles adorning the landscape outside your window.

 

Have a great day and a smooth swap.

 

notamermaid

 

It was a fine meal aboard the Rhine Star, salad, chicken breat and fries, lemon pie,all the beer or wine and wine and Gluvine,warm inside,too warm maybe heated boat, 2 or 3 hour cruise. Viking did a great job today.

Hi there,

We are on the Viking Tialfi,doing a ship swap tomorrow..

Here is the itinerary, looks like Viking is doing a great job of dealing with Global warming.

39 minutes ago, kimshoes said:

We are scheduled to depart December 14 on Viking Eir from Basel to Amsterdam. 

I haven’t read much on this thread regarding Viking and how they are managing their cruises with the river levels being so low. When I looked at the Eir on cruisemapper a few days ago it appeared to be in Amsterdam and that is where it is now. 

This will be our 3rd Christmas market cruise and that is our only reason to be going so we will be very disappointed if markets are cut out of the trip (especially Colmar and Strasbourg) 

Anyone here on Viking on the Rhine now, or just returning?

Thanks to all who have provided such excellent information. 

Hello Kimshoes,

we are currently on the Viking Tialfi,,we left Amsterdam Saturday and are on our way to Cologne.

we were originally to leave Amsterdam on the Alruna,but will do a ship swap on Tuesday to the Alruna to continue to Basel.

I heard them mention we would cruise the Rhine on a smaller ship, we will see what happens.

We were notified about the ship swap,and change of ships about a week before our departure.

I had taken that the lack of talk about Viking means they are handling it well,we shall see soon.