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How to Choose the Right River Cruise

Quick answer: Coastwise Travel helps you choose the right river cruise by pairing you with a expert advisor who has personally sailed and toured nearly every major river cruise line, acting as your dedicated advocate for every detail (flights, hotels, transfers, excursions), and cutting through the noise of internet opinions to give you advice based on you— not on what worked for a stranger on social media.

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Choosing the Right River Cruise

There are approximately four thousand opinions on the internet about which river cruise line is “the best.” Ask ten people in a Facebook travel group and you’ll get eleven answers, three of them contradictory, and at least one from someone who has never actually been on a river cruise but has strong feelings anyway.

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Cookies, Cabanas, and Humpback Whales: Alaska Aboard the Newly Refurbished Celebrity Solstice

A Happy Hour with warm cookies and hot chocolate.  A champagne toast to a glacier. A five-week-old sled dog puppy snuggled in my arms. Alaska didn’t stand a chance of being anything less than unforgettable.

I sailed the newly refurbished Celebrity Solstice this summer, fresh from her transformation transformed under Celebrity’s $250 million Solstice-class modernization. She came out the other side feeling brand new from bow to stern — and the upgrades made an already spectacular itinerary even better. Here are the moments I’m still thinking about.

Warm Cookie Hour at Sunset Park Cafe

The top deck has been completely transformed into Sunset Park, a half-acre of open-air space with lawn games, live music, and sweeping views. But the real magic happens every afternoon at 3:30, when fresh cookies come straight out of the oven at the new Sunset Park Cafe. Watching guests line up for a warm treat became one of my favorite daily rituals — there’s something about a gooey chocolate chip cookie against a background of snow-capped mountains that is irresistable.

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What It Really Means to Travel Well on a River Cruise

There’s one thing our happiest clients all have in common — and it has nothing to do with which ship they cruised on. 

It isn’t the stateroom they chose, the cruise line they booked, or even the destination. We’ve sent clients down the Danube and along the Rhine. We’ve booked them on Tauck, AMAWaterways, Avalon Waterways, Viking, Riverside Luxury Cruises and other companies you’ve never even heard of. We’ve watched them fall in love with Budapest at golden hour and stand speechless on deck as Cologne came into view.

Across every sailing, every itinerary, every client — the ones who come home the most transformed share exactly one thing.

They arrived with nothing left to manage.

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