ATSEAMYLIFE Posted August 11, 2022 #1 Share Posted August 11, 2022 In September 2023, we are doing the Rhone southbound to Arles on Avalon. I would be interested to hear from people who are doing it this year. With all this drought I'm concerned about the river conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Gourmet Gal Posted August 11, 2022 #2 Share Posted August 11, 2022 How late in Sept.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATSEAMYLIFE Posted August 12, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted August 12, 2022 On 8/11/2022 at 12:38 PM, Gourmet Gal said: How late in Sept.? We sail 9/5/2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Gourmet Gal Posted August 12, 2022 #4 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Well, looks like this Sept 5 will probably have issues on the Rhine…seems to just be getting worse this month but I don’t know if there’s a parallel with the Rhöne. Next year is another year and you never know. I prefer later in the Fall anyway…cooler with Fall color and by mid-Oct. some rain could relieve conditions. The Rhöne river valley is very hot in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted August 13, 2022 #5 Share Posted August 13, 2022 The Rhone is a major commercial waterway in Europe and controlled by locks. While obviously the river can be low when it does not rain, problems like on a free-flowing river are less likely to occur. You can read a little here: https://www.french-waterways.com/waterways/south-east/river-rhone/ The upper part including the sailed bit on the Saone, if you do that, may be different. Not sure about that area. But hopefully a recent cruiser will tell you about their experience. notamermaid 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal archive Posted August 13, 2022 #6 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Unbelievable the last time I experienced 36 degrees was on our Rhône cruise now I’m at home with the same temperature, but there’s something missing ohh could it be our wonderful Scenic crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATSEAMYLIFE Posted August 22, 2023 Author #7 Share Posted August 22, 2023 We leave in 15 days for a southbound Rhone river on Avalon from Lyon to Arles. Anybody know the current river levels? Anybody going with us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted August 22, 2023 #8 Share Posted August 22, 2023 There are three forum for River Cruising related questions: • this main River Cruising forum • the River Cruise Ports sub-forum – which is only for questions about individual river ports • the All Other River Cruise Roll Calls forum – which is where your second question belongs (but where you are highly unlikely to get any answers, because roll calls don't work for river cruises with the small number of passengers on river ships) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare gnome12 Posted August 22, 2023 #9 Share Posted August 22, 2023 58 minutes ago, Host Jazzbeau said: There are three forum for River Cruising related questions: • this main River Cruising forum • the River Cruise Ports sub-forum – which is only for questions about individual river ports • the All Other River Cruise Roll Calls forum – which is where your second question belongs (but where you are highly unlikely to get any answers, because roll calls don't work for river cruises with the small number of passengers on river ships) Shouldn’t it be three fora? 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted August 22, 2023 #10 Share Posted August 22, 2023 2 minutes ago, gnome12 said: Shouldn’t it be three fora? 😀 I meant to say 'forums' – once it became an English word it goes with English pluralization. Oh, but you're Canadian, sorry: pluralisation 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare gnome12 Posted August 22, 2023 #11 Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Host Jazzbeau said: I meant to say 'forums' – once it became an English word it goes with English pluralization. Oh, but you're Canadian, sorry: pluralisation 😉 I was going with the counting analogy a-three-a, a-four-a. (Yes I would use forums too.) And as a Canadian, I think we generally use the zed (not zee) in words like pluralization. We go for the British spellings on ou words like neighbour, but I think we go with American spellings on the zed words. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted August 22, 2023 #12 Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, gnome12 said: I was going with the counting analogy a-three-a, a-four-a. Sorry to admit that went right over my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal archive Posted August 22, 2023 #13 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Oh just shove the ubiquitous apostrophe in then that will cause no end of troubles or trouble’s. 🤪 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare pontac Posted August 24, 2023 #14 Share Posted August 24, 2023 On 8/22/2023 at 1:32 AM, ATSEAMYLIFE said: We leave in 15 days for a southbound Rhone river on Avalon from Lyon to Arles. Anybody know the current river levels? To answer your question. We got back Tuesday 22/8 from a Rhone cruise Avignon-Arles-Lyon No river issues. Lyon is the point where the Saone river joins the Rhone. We didn't sail on it, but crossed it by bridge a couple of times and it looked in good health. So you are going down river on the contents of the Rhone & Saone. I don't think you'll have water problems. However - it was very hot, 35-38C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATSEAMYLIFE Posted August 24, 2023 Author #15 Share Posted August 24, 2023 1 minute ago, pontac said: To answer your question. We got back Tuesday 22/8 from a Rhone cruise Avignon-Arles-Lyon No river issues. Lyon is the point where the Saone river joins the Rhone. We didn't sail on it, but crossed it by bridge a couple of times and it looked in good health. So you are going down river on the contents of the Rhone & Saone. I don't think you'll have water problems. However - it was very hot, 35-38C. Perfect exactly the info I was looking for. We are south bound from Chalon sur-Saone to Arles leaving September 5th. It appears the weather will cool down for us to around 26-28C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal archive Posted August 24, 2023 #16 Share Posted August 24, 2023 It was exceptionally hot when we did this cruise and when the weather broke, boy did it rain wow then it stormed wonderfully. The only challenges I have ever heard of on the Saone and Rhône is that one of the bridges in Lyon gets lower when the water levels rise and has some time ago caused a few challenges. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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