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We got back from the Siene on the 4th of July. It was the week of the really bad riots, but we never noticed anything at all during our trip. We loved it. The ship was smaller than we had been on for ABD Danube and there were only approximately 80 guests, and for most excursions we were broken...

A couple of weeks ago we got back from our Tauck Bridges Family Fun Along the Siene river cruise. We were there the week of the many riots, but were thankfully not impacted. I won't do a full report, but this was our 5th trip with TB and our first river cruise with them. The ship was lovely and...

I second Tauck. They have been around forever, well before ABD, and their traditional trips are generally for mature adults.

I booked Christmas of 2024 a couple of weeks ago. We live in Houston and have sailed on DCL out of Christmas for several years, but 2023 is our first on RCL. We are a family of 5, and prefer connecting rooms. I could only find a single pair of rooms that were next door and could accommodate 3...

In my experience they do not correct their own errors. On my first Disney cruise we talked to the cruise agent onboard and picked two connecting rooms for our family of 5. Then, when we got the email confirmations the two rooms were on different decks and different sides of the ship. Turns out...

I suppose I am not surprised that ABD didn't have their stuff together when they put the dates up. When we took TB to Ireland, we booked super early and there were only trips scheduled for every other week. We always travel the first trip of the summer and before I could book (we were doing a...

I will note that Tauck kept the vaccination requirement for its 2023 trips, because that is what was in place when people signed up, but dropped it for 2024, so people can get what they signed up for.

I got the survey too. I was mostly surprised how eye poppingly expensive some of them were. A ton of mine were well into 5 figures per person, and for rather mundane eastern Europe itineraries. I mean, I expect that for a safari or Antarctica, not… Slovenia.

Ok, so we put a passport in for renewal on January 16 (it was an online renewal for an adult, which I do not recommend for anyone, so it's a good thing they paused them). At the time, the quoted turnaround was 6 to 9 weeks without expediting. We hit 9 weeks and the status was still only...

That is *terrible*!!! Those rooms are so small, and with their weird couches that are not traditional pull outs, you cannot even put it away yourself! Last week on Allure we still had 2X per day service, but leaving the bed out for a week is something they will definitely hear about on my next...

We sent the kids passports in the week before Thanksgiving and we received them in January. My husband submitted his renewal on January 13 and it still says In Process.

Probably ChatGPT wrote it for them.

In all of the hotels we have stayed in, we called the front desk and they sent someone up to the room to make the sofa bed In the evening. In mid level hotel chains as well as the higher end.

Here’s what I don’t get. If they service your room once in the morning, and you have a family and need the pull out, will they come just take out the bed in the evening, or is your only choice to leave the bed out all day or pull it out yourself? I would much prefer it if they offered an...

I recently checked in on Royal Caribbean for a cruise over spring break and it was AMAZING. I could do it in the app, without getting shunted to a poorly functioning website, and I could pick PAT first, before entering info, and booking other things, dining, shows, etc, was on a different...

I have done 5 Tauck Bridges and 1 ABD river cruise. Right now we are booked on the TB Siene river cruise for this June and the Rhine for 2024. For me the ABD Danube was fine, not great, and ranks toward the bottom of our trips in our personal ranking. I would not consider doing a regular Tauck...

We are flying nonstop to Paris in June. Business class over, premium economy back. I thought it was a totally crazy splurge last fall when I bought it for our family of 5. Now those same tickets are $25K for round trip premium economy and $56K for round trip business class. It's mind boggling...

We are doing Allure for spring break in March and Harmony for Christmas. We live in Houston so I am so looking forward to checking out the brand new fancy terminal they just built in Galveston.

We also use Allianz, but because coverage for the kids is free. We have been using them for almost a decade now, and if you buy within two weeks of paying the trip deposit, pre-existing medical conditions are also covered which I like because while my kid only has food allergies, whether or not...

I also want to say that I have a rash guard with some zipper pockets that has been super helpful in times like these, or on the AquaDunk when I have to take off my own necklace or put the kid's fitbit in there. Take them off as you step on the ride and slip them in the secure pocket and all is...