jimmymac613

FYI- my wife and I booked our second cruise with Scenic which is an 11-day cruise (plus 3 days in Prague) and we received a Welcome Home Discount- Gold- Voucher for $200 each (total $400 discount). It was taken directly off of the Booking Invoice.

Thanks for all of your inputs! Since we're only in Vienna for one day we're going to stay there for the day.

We'll be on our second Scenic river cruise in May and the day that we're in Vienna we can't decide between the excursion to Schonbrunn Palace or the half day bus trip to Bratislava. Any recommendations? We've never been to either of them.

notamermaid- why do you say to avoid Nuremberg?

John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

We'll be on the Gems of the Danube cruise in May on Scenic Amber. We can't decide between the Freechoice options of going to the Schonbrunn Palace or the Excursion to Bratislava. Any suggestions?

Hi Jazz- when we booked our second cruise with Scenic back in July through a TA we received two $200 discounts on our booking that were listed as "Welcome Home Discount- Gold" with a voucher code.

Jazzbeau- I highly recommend the Bellevue Syrene Hotel in Sorrento. Was just there in May. Gorgeous views of the water, excellent hotel and great location.

Which, if any, of the cruise companies visits Omaha Beach in Normandy? The only one that I've looked into was Scenic which stops in Honfleur but, according to their itinerary, only goes to Utah Beach for Americans. Doesn't really make sense to me because it sure looks like Omaha Beach is closer to Honfleur than Utah Beach. Also, how long is the bus ride from Honfleur?

We were just on the Romantic Rhine and Moselle cruise with Scenic in June. We were very excited about their electric bikes and the fact that about every other day they offered a cycling tour because we bike a lot in California and wanted and needed the exercise. We realized that, after the third bicycling tour, we just weren't seeing enough of the towns and cities that we were visiting. I'm sure it was for safety reasons but all of the bike tours that we went on tended to take you out into the countryside into rural settings where you saw farmland, horses, cows and sheep. Not exactly the great European architecture and history that we were looking for. After that we chose the city tours.

We were just on the Romantic Rhine and Moselle cruise with Scenic in June. We were very excited about their electric bikes and the fact that about every other day they offered a cycling tour because we bike a lot in California and wanted and needed the exercise. We realized that, after the third bicycling tour, we just weren't seeing enough of the towns and cities that we were visiting. I'm sure it was for safety reasons but all of the bike tours that we went on tended to take you out into the countryside into rural settings where you saw farmland, horses, cows and sheep. Not exactly the great European architecture and history that we were looking for. After that we chose the city tours.

When we were in the Amsterdam airport last month it seemed like the only machines we could find were Travelex.

Currently on the Scenic Pearl and we’re rafting with the Scenic Jade in Strasbourg. We’re stuck here due to the lock strike. There’s also 3 more cruise ships (there may be more but the 5 is all I can see). The Pearl and Jade will move to Breisach later this afternoon and that’s where we’ll disembark from in the morning. We will not be going to Basel. Scenic is too concerned that once the lock opens up there will be too many ships trying to get through and we would miss our flights tomorrow. From what we’ve heard the Jade returns to its regular schedule starting tomorrow.

Scenic didn’t stand there holding a sign at the Amsterdam airport like some of the other companies. They tell you to go to the Burger King and in front of it there is a place with a “Meeting Point” sign.

We’re currently on a Scenic cruise. We left early and spent 4 days in Amsterdam before the cruise. When we left we had not yet received our backpacks, however, we received everything that we needed through e-mail via our TA about a week before we left including all of the transfer information for pickup at the airport.

The Scenic Pearl spotted on the Meuse river near Maasbracht.

Currently on the Scenic Pearl. Once you’re on the ship it will download all pertinent information for your cruise.

Wooohooo! Great news! That has been a grey cloud hovering over our current river trip!

We boarded the Pearl about 2 hours ago. No go on the Jade! We even met CJANDH already. They fooled me- I was expecting somewhat of a South Carolina drawl and they’re actually British!

Received this in official Scenic e-mail today: Please be advised due to an earlier ship schedule change our guests will be joining Scenic Pearl in Amsterdam, June 8, not Scenic Jade as outlined in our guest's itinerary. No mention of new cabin number or size discrepancy.

We leave tomorrow and no backpacks yet- oh well! Don't really need them anyways.

Did your cruise docs mention anything about where the ship will be located? Are you staying at the Doubletree Centraal Station? That's where it says our pick-up will be on the 8th.

Actually, the spaceships are not exactly the same. They are laid out very similarly but some of the cabins are different. On the Jade there was a choice of Balcony Suites or Deluxe Balcony Suites (slightly larger). If we are switched to the Pearl this ship only has Balcony Suites and no Deluxe Balcony Suites. That is an upgrade that we paid $500/pp for.

Just got back from a meeting with my TA and we were all on a call with Scenic. It seems that the Jade will not make the June 8th cruise out of Amsterdam and there will be a ship swap that they said would most likely be the Pearl. They said everyone would be put in comparable rooms but not sure how that will work because we were supposed to be in a Deluxe Balcony Suite and the Pearl doesn't have those.

We are supposed to be on the June 8th Romantic Rhine & Moselle cruise on the Jade. Our TA has also confirmed with Scenic that the cruise will go as scheduled, however, I forgot to ask her to confirm what the ship will be. If you monitor CruiseMapper it appears that the Pearl is doing the Jade's itinerary and not their own itinerary.