APT River Cruises & Tours
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A disappointing experience
We booked the Travelmarvel river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest as an early celebration of our golden wedding anniversary. The first week was excellent: lovely ship, wonderful food and all very relaxing. Then the ship got stranded because of flooding on the Danube and everything changed. We had a couple of long coach trips out from the stranded ship then had to choose between flying home or continuing as a coach trip. We chose the latter, as we particularly wanted to see Vienna and Budapest, but it wasn’t a good experience. We spent up to 5.5 hours per day on the coach and the standard of the food was poor. After a week of fine dining we mostly had buffets with low quality food, and at one venue the food ran out before everyone was served. It was tiring, fraught and a terrible let-down after such a lovely first week. APT couldn’t do anything about the flood, but they did not provide alternative food and accommodation of the standard we had paid for.