coffee drinker

It's always reassuring to hear positive reports from on-the-spot travelers. Excellent dining, interesting excursions, superior entertainment-- can't ask for more! Except maybe an ironing board, which you confirm the existence of in a previous conversation. Bravo all around!

Thanks so much for your reply about the ironing issue --- beginning to think through what to pack, and an iron will grease those wheels nicely. Appreciate your taking time to answer. We're counting the days until end-September, are so looking forward to this adventure.

We'll be on the Countess from MN to LA this fall. I wonder if there are ironing facilities on board ? An iron and board n the cabin closet? Or both available to use? As an alternative, send-out laundry available? Thanks in advance for any info ! Coffee Drinker

Thanks for your informative trip review! We'll be on a Sept AQ-Countess trip from Minneapolis to NOLA, looking forward to the HOHO buses and greatly appreciated your comments on that aspect. Plus the menus look lovely... PS....remembering a long-ago vacation in GB and Scotland: Edinburgh, Inverness, train to Kyle-Lochalsh and Sky. Lovely, no other words!

We are taking a Mississippi River, Minneapolis / Red Wing to New Orleans, cruise this fall and beginning to plan our second river cruise-- our first on Germany's Main, Rhine, Mosel in 1995-- after many ocean cruises. I'd like your opinions re the premium excursions offered. Guides good? Worth the cost? Anyone book a private tour instead? Museums, historic homes etc. accessed through the HOHO bus? Which were interesting, not-to-be-missed? Pleasant towns worth a stroll? Thanks in advance to any feedback, much appreciated.