Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 10, 2020 #1 Share Posted April 10, 2020 When Will River Cruise Lines Resume Service? [compilation from Cruise Critic news article, current to May 27] https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5206/ NOTE: this listing is no longer being updated. For current information, see the replacement thread here Amadeus: May 28 AmaWaterways: August 1 American Cruise Lines: June 20 [updated 5-22 per separate CC article] American Queen Steamboat Company: July 6 [updated 5-27 per separate CC article] APT: July 1 Arena Travel: July 1 [per Arena website 5-22] A-ROSA River Cruises: June 15 [updated 5-27] Avalon Waterways: September 1 Botanica: May 31 Captain Cook Cruises: Murray River: July 1 Fiji: June 1 CroisiEurope: European, Egypt & South Africa voyages: June 16 Mekong voyages: August 14 Crystal River Cruises: July 1 Emerald Waterways/Evergreen Cruises: September 1 [updated 5-13] Gate1 Travel: July 1 Grand Circle: July 1 Nicko: Germany: June 1 [per Nicko website 5-22] rest of Europe: June 15 [per Nicko website 5-22] Pandaw: July 2020 Riviera Travel: June 1 Scenic: September 1 Tauck: July 16 Teeming River Cruises: July 14 Titan: June 1 Travelmarvel: July 1 TUI River Cruises: November 26 Uniworld: July 1 Vantage Deluxe World Travel: July 12 Victory Cruise Lines: 2021 [updated per CC article 5-27] Viking River Cruises: June 30 VIVA: June 17 [per VIVA website 5-22] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisi Posted April 10, 2020 #2 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Interesting dates when you look at the River Cruise lines..Apr 23 sounds pretty early. It will be interesting to see if they manage to keep the dates or delay more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Roz Posted April 10, 2020 #3 Share Posted April 10, 2020 42 minutes ago, Daisi said: Interesting dates when you look at the River Cruise lines..Apr 23 sounds pretty early. It will be interesting to see if they manage to keep the dates or delay more. Daisi, I was wondering the same thing. I live in a conservative state and work in state gov't., and our governor doesn't have us going back to work at our offices until April 27, but even he admits that date may be extended. If I had a cruise booked with Uniworld that begins on April 23, I don't know that I would be able to even get the flights I would need to get there on April 21 or 22. Even May 1 may be a stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted April 10, 2020 #4 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) April dates now sound quite "ambitious", with lock down rules applying for most of the river cruising countries. Even with easing of restrictions, here in Germany as elsewhere the understanding is that a return to normality will be gradual, step by step over several weeks and months. I cannot see a combination of air travel and river cruise, i.e. a boat with more than 100 people "congregating", possible for April and much of May. The companies may resume operations, but I do not think all itineraries they offer will be possible initially. On a personal level, I would not be comfortable travelling like that before July. notamermaid Edited April 10, 2020 by notamermaid grammar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunlover12 Posted April 10, 2020 #5 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I had a Danube River cruise booked for May and cancelled it. Even if I did feel it would be safe to go, it would be very challenging to get there. Flights between the US and Europe are extremely limited and will be for some time. The river cruise lines that are resuming service in April and May have a case of "wishful thinking". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare gnome12 Posted April 10, 2020 #6 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I had a Danube River cruise booked for May and cancelled it. Even if I did feel it would be safe to go, it would be very challenging to get there. Flights between the US and Europe are extremely limited and will be for some time. The river cruise lines that are resuming service in April and May have a case of "wishful thinking". I don’t think they actually expect to start on those dates; rather that is the first date they haven’t yet cancelled. Even companies that cater to locals are probably being overly optimistic. Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 10, 2020 Author #7 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Someone asked in another thread why the cruise lines keep cancelling a few cruises instead of admitting that they won't be able to cruise until well into the summer? I can think of two reasons: (1) it's hard to pick a date [although the new CDC order will make that easier for US cruises] and (2) their staffs are already overloaded – each time they cancel another cruise that adds all those passengers to the shoreside workload, so they need to 'flatten the curve' of cancellations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent9xxx1 Posted April 11, 2020 #8 Share Posted April 11, 2020 And if they cancel, they have to refund. They rather let customer cancel and get their FCC instead. It's a game of chicken between cruise line and clients. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mskaufman Posted April 11, 2020 #9 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Part of the question for river cruising is when Air travel between the U.S. and Europe will bee normalized. Would be difficult to river cruise if we couldn't get a flight back or we were going to be quarantined for two weeks when we came back. It is a game of chicken. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorygirl4528 Posted April 11, 2020 #10 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Per info on Vantage website they have now cx all cruises thru May 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coevan Posted April 11, 2020 #11 Share Posted April 11, 2020 17 hours ago, mskaufman said: Part of the question for river cruising is when Air travel between the U.S. and Europe will bee normalized. Would be difficult to river cruise if we couldn't get a flight back or we were going to be quarantined for two weeks when we came back. It is a game of chicken. This is what worries me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyCruiser Posted April 14, 2020 #12 Share Posted April 14, 2020 A few on May 1, with a few on July 1. I doubt the May cruisings will happen since you can't get airfares there, esp to Europe from N America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare franski Posted April 15, 2020 #13 Share Posted April 15, 2020 We are booked in late September - and am not 100% convinced this will happen. Sailing is one thing, but, as mentioned above, the flights are a difference issue. Good to see at least some companies have recognized the challenges, and have cancelled until July. Fran 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted April 15, 2020 #14 Share Posted April 15, 2020 I am not sure what rivers the companies intend to sail, those that want to resume operations in April or the first week in May. Social distancing applies everywhere an article in a German online newspaper pointed out the other day, that also means on any boat or ship on the Rhine in my case. This rules out working in a river cruise ship galley kitchen I should think, and implementing that in a dining room??. Perhaps the Douro works? I do not know how Portugal is doing. But for us Germans sailing on the Douro would entail a 14-day quarantine on return. As of now. I see in the updated link that Arosa have already changed the date to 23 April, but as I said in my previous post that is "ambitious". Having only postponed by a week they are rather optimistic in my opinion. I am not. I prefer to heed the worldwide travel warning by our "Auswärtiges Amt", i.e. the foreign office. notamermaid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestocking7 Posted April 16, 2020 #15 Share Posted April 16, 2020 As of today (April 15) Tauck has cancelled all its cruises (and land tours) with departure dates through June 30. https://www.tauck.com/travel-policy-update We're booked on a Rhine river cruise in mid-July, which is looking pretty unlikely right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coevan Posted April 16, 2020 #16 Share Posted April 16, 2020 so has Ama, we are also scheduled to sail mid July Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnhaltER1960 Posted April 18, 2020 #17 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Update for Croisieurope. They have cancelled ("postponed") all cruises starting on or before June 15th this year. https://www.croisieuroperivercruises.com/information/coronavirus-postponement-cruises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolltide8425 Posted April 20, 2020 #18 Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 4/15/2020 at 12:02 AM, franski said: We are booked in late September - and am not 100% convinced this will happen. Sailing is one thing, but, as mentioned above, the flights are a difference issue. Good to see at least some companies have recognized the challenges, and have cancelled until July. Fran We’re booked for October 1st....hoping for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 21, 2020 Author #19 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I have updated the list at the top of this thread per the updated Cruise Critic article [4-21-20] at https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5206/ and the Vantage information posted by @Rorygirl4528 above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 23, 2020 Author #20 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I have updated the list at the top of this thread per the updated Cruise Critic article [4-23-20] at https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5206/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coevan Posted April 24, 2020 #21 Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 2:50 PM, Host Jazzbeau said: I have updated the list at the top of this thread per the updated Cruise Critic article [4-23-20] at https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5178/ Those are just Uniworld, what about Ama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 25, 2020 Author #22 Share Posted April 25, 2020 1 hour ago, coevan said: Those are just Uniworld, what about Ama Sorry, CopyPaste got the wrong copy to paste. [That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.] I meant https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5206/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 25, 2020 Author #23 Share Posted April 25, 2020 And another update to reflect a separate Cruise Critic update about Crystal changing date for river cruise resumptions to July 1: https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5205/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coevan Posted April 25, 2020 #24 Share Posted April 25, 2020 July 20 Rhine still scares the bejeezes out of us. We'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 27, 2020 Author #25 Share Posted April 27, 2020 I have updated the list at the top of this thread per the updated Cruise Critic article [4-27-20] at https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5206/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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