{"id":1257,"date":"2010-03-06T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/?page_id=1257"},"modified":"2018-01-19T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:30:49","slug":"how-river-cruising-compares-to-luxury-ocean-cruising","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/new-start\/abcs-of-river-cruising\/how-river-cruising-compares-to-luxury-ocean-cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"How River Cruising Compares To Luxury Ocean Cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do river cruises compare to luxury ocean cruises?<\/h1>\n

Luxury ocean cruises typically are defined by spacious staterooms, as noted above, fine dining, an all-inclusive product, including beer, wine and spirits, gratuities and shore excursions on one luxury cruise line (Regent Seven Seas Cruises).<\/p>\n

River cruisers don’t quite match the luxury standards of ocean-going vessels, but river cruisers do come close. Refer to the chart below for comparison.<\/p>\n

River Cruise Vessels vs. Luxury Ocean Vessels<\/h2>\nHow do river cruise vessels compare to luxury ocean-going vessels? Though the comparison is a bit like comparing apples to oranges, the exercise is relevant for those who are familiar with luxury cruises but not with river cruises. For comparison, we use AMAWATERWAYS' European-based vessels and Regent Seven Seas Cruises' fleet of ocean-going luxury vessels.<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
<\/th>AMAWATERWAYS<\/th>Regent Seven Seas Cruises<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Stateroom Square Footage<\/td>170 square feet to 255 square feet<\/td>306 square feet to 1,216 square feet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beer, wine & spirits<\/td>Beer and wine included with dinner<\/td>Beer, wine & spirits included 24\/7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Open-Seating Dining<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes. Regent has four-dining venues, two that are reservations-only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Internet<\/td>Included<\/td>Available for a fee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In-Room Dining<\/td>No<\/td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shore Excursions\/Tours Included<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes (Regent is the only luxury line to include shore excursions)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Staff-To-Guest Ratio<\/td>1-to-3<\/td>1-to-1.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Expect to pay in high season<\/td>7 nights on the Danube, $342 per person<\/td>10 nights, Copenhagen to Stockholm, $855 per night, per person<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do river cruises compare to luxury ocean cruises? Luxury ocean cruises typically are defined by spacious staterooms, as noted above, fine dining, an all-inclusive product, including beer, wine and spirits, gratuities and shore excursions on one luxury cruise line (Regent Seven Seas Cruises). River cruisers don’t quite match the luxury standards of ocean-going vessels, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":931,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1257\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}