<\/a>Guests enjoy Emerald Star’s Movie Theater tonight, where “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is being shown. Photo \u00a9 2014 Aaron Saunders<\/p><\/div>\n
Tomorrow, Emerald Star<\/em> arrives in my absolute favorite city: Vienna, Austria<\/strong>. I\u2019ve been to Vienna four times before, but it\u2019s one of those places that I feel oddly \u2013 and intimately \u2013 connected to. The real challenge, then, will be simply falling asleep tonight. On my very first river cruise three years ago, I had the feeling on the first few days that I couldn\u2019t sleep, or I would miss something. As I write this, we\u2019re sailing past a cute little town on our starboard side. There\u2019s a river cruise ship passing us on our port side. With so much to see and do, river cruising is unlike any other vacation you can take.<\/p>\nThey may be new, but Emerald Cruises is doing a fine job of living up to that expectation.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Sailing the Danube, Emerald Cruises-style. Photo \u00a9 2014 Aaron Saunders<\/p><\/div>\n
Emerald Cruises, Budapest to Nuremberg<\/h2>\n\n
\n\n\n\tDAY<\/B><\/td> | PORT<\/B><\/td> | ACTIVITIES<\/B><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\tSaturday, July 12, 2014<\/a><\/td> | Budapest, Hungary<\/td> | Embark Emerald Cruises' Emerald Star<\/i> in Budapest; Welcome Aboard Dinner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\tSunday, July 13<\/a><\/td> | Budapest, Hungary<\/td> | Guided tour of Budapest including Fisherman's Bastion and Castle Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\tMonday, July 14<\/a><\/td> | Bratislava, Slovakia<\/td> | Old Town walking tour; EmeraldPlus excursion for tea with a local Slovakian family<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\tTuesday, July 15<\/a><\/td> | Vienna, Austria<\/td> | Panoramic \"Ringstrasse\" tour of Vienna; free time and optional Schonbrunn Palace Tour and Viennese concert. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\tWednesday, July 16<\/a><\/td> | Vienna \/ Durnstein \/ Melk, Austria<\/td> | Guided tour of Melk Abbey; guided tour of Durnstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\tThursday, July 17<\/a><\/td> | Linz, Austria \/ Passau, Germany<\/td> | Walking tours & free time in Linz and Passau; Optional full-day tour to Salzburg, Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\tFriday, July 18<\/a><\/td> | Regensburg \/ Weltenburg, Germany<\/td> | Guided tours of Regensburg & Weltenburg Abbey; optional traditional Bavarian entertainment excursion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n\tSaturday, July 19<\/a><\/td> | Nuremberg, Germany<\/td> | Disembark & onward journey home.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slovakia Two Ways with Emerald Cruises Aaron Saunders, Live Voyage Reports Emerald Cruises\u2019 Emerald Star continued her weeklong Danube Delights itinerary this morning as we arrived in our second country \u2013 and second capital city \u2013 of the trip. Today, we\u2019d explore Bratislava, Slovakia in two ways: first, with an orientating walking tour of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5298,"parent":4839,"menu_order":2,"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\/5303"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5303\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | |