Dinner aboard Avalon Panorama. Photo courtesy of Avalon Waterways<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nTherein lies the brilliance of river cruising: The ships are small and intimate enough that you get to know everyone. There\u2019s a certain family style atmosphere that fosters aboard a river cruise ship that just isn\u2019t possible on larger vessels. Have you ever been on a megaship and struck up a great conversation with someone one evening, only to never see them again for the rest of the voyage? There\u2019s no danger of that happening on a river cruise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you be bored? Not unless you choose to be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you\u2019ve never taken a river cruise before, chances are you\u2019re asking yourself one very important question, and it goes like this: The ship looks so small. Will I be bored? That\u2019s the very question I asked myself before I took my first river cruise — though admittedly the thought hadn\u2019t occurred to me until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":""},"categories":[6,66,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}