Danube flooding June ‘24

[Lisa SG]

Is anyone currently on the Danube Waltz cruise? What are you able to do since the river is closed due to flooding and the shore points are under water? We are scheduled on the Passau - Budapest cruise leaving on June 15. Trying to decide if we should cancel. 

[Roz]

You didn't mention your cruise line or ship, but if the trip is still a go (even if it turns into a land trip), your insurance won't reimburse you if you cancel. 

 

Not familiar with the term shore point. 

Edited June 5 by Roz

[Lisa SG]

6 minutes ago, Roz said:

You didn't mention your cruise line or ship, but if the trip is still a go (even if it turns into a land trip), your insurance won't reimburse you if you cancel. 

 

Not familiar with the term shore point. 

It is Viking. Insurance is through Trip Mate, and is supposed to be ‘cancel at any time for any reason’. At least according to the excruciatingly fine print. 

 

And sorry for the confusion. By ‘shore points’, I meant cities along our route that we are scheduled to tour. 

[CDNPolar]

Welcome to Cruise Critic

 

When river cruising is impacted by high, or low water levels many things can happen.

 

If the water levels are too high for the ship to pass under bridges, you may be bussed around the bridge to another ship or taken to hotels and bussed to your excursions.  Your river cruise could turn into a bus trip.  However, this has never happened to us but we understand Viking to take good care of you and use top hotels.

 

We were on Treasures of the Rhine this past December and just one week before all ships were stopped in Cologne and no one was sailing past Cologne.  We were lucky - one week later - and sailed all the way through from start to finish of our itinerary... but, there were several times that we could not dock where we were intended to dock because the docks that Viking use / book were under water.  In a couple of cases we docked further down the river and were bussed when we could have walked from ship to city centre if we docked where we were intended to.

 

This is a risk of river cruising any time of the year.

 

If you have CFAR, and make sure you do before you execute anything, then you can in fact cancel for any reason, BUT you will not get a refund, you will get vouchers for a future Viking cruise that you can use on any cruise ocean or river.  

 

Be very careful that you FULLY UNDERSTAND the terms of the vouchers before you take this option.  Vouchers can have many different restrictions attached to them.

 

 

[notamermaid]

Welcome to Cruisecritic. I recommend having a look also at the roll calls as some folk prefer to post there. Look for your itinerary via: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/851-viking-river-roll-calls/

 

notamermaid

 

[twototravel]

Here's a link to an article about Danube flooding around Bratislava. First two sentences are: 

A flood warning has been put in place for the Slovakian capital after heavy rainfall in Germany and Austria.

Slovakia's capital, Bratislava, is preparing for its worst flooding in years as the Danube River threatens to burst its banks.

 

Bratislava braces for major flooding as Danube continues to rise | Euronews