Poulsbo Cruisers

Vantage has treated us well. We've traveled 10 times with them -- land and cruise tours. We have been on rivercruises where the entire ship was American and on others where there have been mixed language speaking groups on board. Usually the Vantage group had a set area to sit for evening meals. (China, Russia). These were chartered ships. They own a lot of their own ships for the European river cruises so the entire group is with Vantage.

We took our first river cruise this year and chose Vantage. We were very pleased and plan to use them again. We did a lot of research and had a recommendation from friends to try GCT. However, Vantage is a similar company and, from what we could tell, has nicer and newer ships.

They don't really want us to understand what the captain is reporting from the bridge.:)

Has anyone tried using the Kindle Fire? I would rather not bring my laptop and I could read my email on the Fire if it worked okay.

poulsbo cruisers - What emerald mini were you in and what was your opinion of it? I am in one of the aft minis on July 31st and am curious.

 

Thanks....Ken

We were in E731, the last mini on the starboard side. It was the best cabin we have ever had. It had a larger balcony and nobody on our aft side. We will always try to book this cabin in the future.

These are typical balcony cabins, but they are in a great location. You are on the same deck as the pools, Trident Grill, the pizza and ice cream bar, and Horizon Court, but you are in the front of the ship so you do not have much traffic. The only traffic comes from people using the forward elevators from the pool; however, L 246 is in front of the elevators so this shouldn't be a concern.

We just got off of the Crown and it is a fabulous ship. While we had a mini suite on the Emerald Deck, I became familiar enough with the Lido Deck to think that this would be the place to have a balcony cabin.