LIVE Tauck: Amsterdam to Budapest 6/29/19-7/15/19

[HBCcruiser]

The last photo us of the golden tomb holding the remains of the three wisemen. 

 

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We ended our day enjoying the sun deck, tasting the local beer with staff, having another delicious dinner and listening to local musicians who were amazing!

 

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Dinner - I had the filet and mom had sauerbraten. 

Dessert was chocolate forest cake. All 10 out if 10 forks. We have yet to have a bad meal onboard! 

 

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Day 4 Started out cruising the Rhine and the Lorelei. We saw many castles, vineyards and cute towns. Perfect morning. Oh and they served an amazing hot chocolate!

 

 

 

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Did you catch the cage hanging out of the tower? Must have been fun!

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We had lunch a did shopping in Rudesheim. Cute town!

[need2travel1]

Finally getting caught up...

 

Everything looks awesome, loving all your pics!  Glad you're having a great time & thanks for posting your itinerary for each day.

 

[HBCcruiser]

Cruising the Main River. We will go through 67 Locks! 

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I forgot to mention dinner last night. I had the duck which was very good! Dessert was the chocolate surprise- YUM!

 

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Awesome day today cruising down the Main. The crew decorated the ship for the 4th. We sat outside watching as we entered and exited the locks and went under some very low bridges. 

 

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A towel critter!!

 

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We ate lunch in Arthurs- amazing animal style burger BTW! We enjoyed the aft view of the locks. 

 

[robertmartha]

HBC

 

Just wanted to thank you for taking us all along on your sailing.

Really enjoying your photo's and your detailed reviews - 

was really surprised at the interior shots of the ship you posted above - such a spacious and expansive atrium - for a minute I was not sure it was of the ship! Having only sailed on one river cruise (so far!) on AMA Serena - it's atrium/lobby was much smaller. 

 

thank you again!

Bob

[HBCcruiser]

52 minutes ago, robertmartha said:

HBC

 

Just wanted to thank you for taking us all along on your sailing.

Really enjoying your photo's and your detailed reviews - 

was really surprised at the interior shots of the ship you posted above - such a spacious and expansive atrium - for a minute I was not sure it was of the ship! Having only sailed on one river cruise (so far!) on AMA Serena - it's atrium/lobby was much smaller. 

 

thank you again!

Bob

 

I’ll post a video of the ship once I’m home. Yes the ship has a lot of space. We only have 66 or so people onboard. Nice!

[jagoffee]

HBCruiser,   Great to see that you are having a great cruise.

 

i was wondering if you had to check out of your hotel, before you visited the Anne Frank Museum.  If yes, what did you do with your carryon/valuables?

 

thank you.

[DanBarb]

We are on a similar cruise next April to May, although on the Viking Lif.  Enjoying your report😄😄❤️

[OnTheJourney]

Did you have that glass blower yet?  If it's the same guy we had...he's not only amazing at what he does, but also really funny. 

[OnTheJourney]

13 hours ago, HBCcruiser said:

 

I’ll post a video of the ship once I’m home. Yes the ship has a lot of space. We only have 66 or so people onboard. Nice!

So glad you only have so few passengers....that's about what we had.  Did you get to the Mechanical Music Cabinet yet...being that you were in Rudesheim?  Being a musician, I was amazed at that place. 

Edited July 5, 2019 by gretschwhtfalcon

[HBCcruiser]

16 hours ago, jagoffee said:

HBCruiser,   Great to see that you are having a great cruise.

 

i was wondering if you had to check out of your hotel, before you visited the Anne Frank Museum.  If yes, what did you do with your carryon/valuables?

 

thank you.

 

We did check out before we left. Tauck asked us to leave our luggage, including carryon luggage, in our rooms.  They gave us extra Tauck tags for carryon. We were told to meet back at the hotel at 3 pm to get on busses that took us to the ship. All bags were in our cabin when we arrived. Easy! 

[HBCcruiser]

Dinner last night was the Chef’s special 6-course meal. So delicious! I’m glad I have stretchy pants!🤣🤣

 

[HBCcruiser]

Soooo much food. I couldn’t eat it all!

[HBCcruiser]

Day 6. 

 

[mj_holiday]

6 hours ago, HBCcruiser said:

Dinner last night was the Chef’s special 6-course meal. So delicious! I’m glad I have stretchy pants!🤣🤣

 

It looked delicious.  Thanks for the pictures.  For this special dinner could you still come to the dining room at any time when it was open or did everyone need to start at the same time.

[HBCcruiser]

1 hour ago, mj_holiday said:

It looked delicious.  Thanks for the pictures.  For this special dinner could you still come to the dining room at any time when it was open or did everyone need to start at the same time.

 

Same time. Other nights are flexible.