This is why your viewers appreciate you so much. We love your honesty and the fact that you do a variety of trips instead of always showing the most posh and expensive accommodations. I am tired of seeing rooms, resorts, etc. that are astronomical in price. It's nice to see high end once in a while, but not every week. Thank you again for being someone we can trust who realizes we aren't all rolling in cash.
Hey I am 73 so I want ro have a chilll cruise next year. I don"t want to be lead around by the hand or be spoon fed.nor do I care for pampering (no butler nor me!!) but I really only want to just watch the river go by. I could even bring my own snacks.
Emmy C We took an AmaWaterways cruise in December 2019. It was a Christmas Markets cruise on the Rhine, and it was fantastic! The views of the castles were beautiful, and drinking the gluewein while shopping in the charming towns was wonderful, even though it was in winter. A Christmas cruise on the Danube with AmaWaterways is on my bucket list. Enjoy your cruise!
Looks like a nice cruise! I just had an epiphany though: DIY rivercruising! You can hire a boat on a canal or river in , for example, France and toodle along for a week, passing the world, having fun in locks, and in some places tunnels. I have done it a couple of times with my family, once in England, twice in France. It's really rather nice.... Ooh: I did get an advert: Air Iceland...
If you go a day early the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz is interesting (a skip away with the 9€ ticket). Other than one of the Gutenberg Bibles they have several early print books. Text books and Travel Guides were popular first printed books, the world was thirsty for knowledge and adventure :)
I so understand your feelings with Viking! I finally thought hey I can actually save on airfare and go on a cruise from right here in MN…..then I looked at the price and just laughed! Excited to see the River cruise you’re going on! Definitely a bucket list item!!
The US river cruises are really very different than European and very pricey. We have thoroughly enjoyed our Viking River cruises and will be on another next year. We did look at Uniworld and AMA and those were as pricey as Viking.
Viking river cruises are the best. We are from USA and were hesitant to take Viking but I am now a fan. Taking our first Viking ocean this year too. They know what they are doing and have everything down to a science. Don't hesitate to try them and never say never.
@@VeryunOfficialTravelGuidesyou deserve more...I need to join your channel...and call me Rich...no need for the "Sergeant" since I am long retired. My wife Gigi sends her love...and I lived in MN for 17 years too! Babbling...sorry.
Miss Viva Tiara is a perfect Drag Queen name (are you listening RuPaul?) I will steal that name if I ever do drag again (which I haven't for 30 years)... 💃
Thank you for providing us with this valuable information. I am a solo traveler as well and I've been looking to do a river cruise for a few years now but it has been out of my travel budget. I look forward to you bringing us along on your river cruise.
Looking Forward to hearing about your River cruise something my husband & I have been thinking about or a cruise. Very interested on how you get on etc. Have a Great week
Really looking forward to your review. I want to try a river cruise, but agree, most of them are out of my price range. Did you look into TUI river cruises? Emma recently went on a budget river cruise with them. Wondering how they price compare with Viva.
I am with you! I also am a travel advisor and I am trying VIVA end of February. My hope is to market travel for folks on a budget. Everyone wants to travel including me but my account doesn't allow me to go on viking either.
i'm excited for this one. i've done 3 viking river cruises, but they no longer allow minors and my kid wants to come. so i'm interested in learning about other brands now. i saw a video about a Croisi river cruise a while back... and it didn't look that great. hope your experience is wonderful.
@@clarkcalabrese292 Thank you so much. I will definitely check them out. My daughter is 10, so that gives me hope that she wouldn't be too out of place.
Looking forward to this, the cruise line is one I haven`t seen before, and the ship looks quite different from others I`ve seen vlogs of. Oh, and my ad was for an online puzzle game.
Look forward to hearing about this low cost river cruise. I want to do a river cruise but the costs have pushed me away. Everyone constantly tells me to go on Viking. It sounds great but as a solo traveler, they know how to gouge you. Just not reasonable. Actually most river and ocean cruises don’t care about the single traveler. So always looking for a bargain. Thanks for your honesty in reporting the good and bad.
I have cruised Avalon. Absolutely loved. It was much cheaper than Viking. Everything was included and same cruise as Viking. Our ship was beautiful. Love cruising both river and ship. So different but both great. I can't wait to hear about something new
I am so naïve it never dawned on me that some of these cruise bloggers were getting free cruises and other perks in exchange for positive reviews. I have always appreciated your straightforward nature the good the bad the ugly.
I’m excited to see your river cruise experience! Someday when we get over to Europe, I want to do a river cruise so we can see more places. We aren’t fancy though….give me budget!
So funny you should mention writing a comment that has nothing to do with the video, as I have one. Please start a face book group or other social media group - for a Committee for Morgan Approved Bathrooms and Bathroom doors (a place to share approved or not approved hotel bathrooms). I am now obsessed when I travel with how how Morgan approved the bathroom and bathroom door are....
It sounds good. I dont know about rivercruises. Although i would like to go on a longboat trip through the uk once. Ive seen the waterways those things can use and it looks amazing. And scarey. (Saw a 1.6m wide waterway about 70 meters above ground) not a fan of aperol spritz. Gimme a Hugo spritz anytime.
Omg I live in Minnesota, I’m also a solo vacationer too. Im just wanting one that gives options of excursions cause like for me I could care less bout a glass museum or car museum(yes I’m going to Germany) for my very first river cruise🙂 I want to see quaint little towns mountain hills and villages!
I look forward to your trip reports…I had no idea there were budget river cruises available. Also the Aperol Spritz is my very favorite cocktail lol but it’s not for everyone-my daughter hates it lol
My ad was for Air BnB. Guess I may try one in the future. I was supposed to go on an Ama Waterways cruise next March, but had to cancel. Looking forward to see how your Viva Cruise was.
Hi Morgan. Looking forward to your river cruise. Can you put CrosiEurope on your radar? Everybody in the states seems to like Viking. Thanks and safe travels.
We did a Rhone river Avalon a few months before COVID and although nice it was NOT inexpensive. We agreed to explore less costly future alternatives so I'm very interested in what Morgan's experience is.
hi Morgan, I'm pleased to have seen this video and did enjoy it. I am looking at a Christmas cruise at the moment and only the big brands come up. Very exy. Any suggestions please. We would be coming from Australia.
I like your video. I am planning to do a European River Cruise March/April 2023. I saw some pretty good offers on TUI Tours. Have you have any experience with them? By the way, does Viva Cruises do Danube river?
How exciting Morgan! I hope you enjoy this river cruise SO much! I keep receiving political ads and even though I state to stop them they continue. I know TH-cam chooses them but I will be happy to return to cruise ads, LOL!!🤗
"The Viva Tiara"? Oh, Mary.............please. Enough said about that....lol!! Commercials for DisneyPlus and AAPC certified coders, right were you said. The lobby/staircase area DOES look nice. I suppose the large window balcony, thing, is better than nothing, but............well, its better than nothing, right?
Hope you have a great river cruise with this line. I’ll be watching. I want the honest truth. Lots of 💸 and even more to travel from Anchorage. Ugh. Yes, American Cruise Line is ridiculously expensive. Hence, I’ve only done ocean cruises. ⚓️🌲 Enjoy! 👋🏼
I also do not travel on Viking. Their expensive prices, are because they get the their passengers to pay for all their advertising! They are everywhere! And the average person, sees them on their computers , and TVs constantly, and its like being brain washed! I personally love river cruising, and hsve been on every river in Europe and Asia, and we just got off cruising the Snake and Colombia rivers. ( not a top one for me! But, glad i did do it!) We also have 66 big cruise , ocean ...ones under our belt. Thanks for your content. Vickie from SE Pa USA
This is why your viewers appreciate you so much. We love your honesty and the fact that you do a variety of trips instead of always showing the most posh and expensive accommodations. I am tired of seeing rooms, resorts, etc. that are astronomical in price. It's nice to see high end once in a while, but not every week. Thank you again for being someone we can trust who realizes we aren't all rolling in cash.
I've just booked A-Rosa Sena,it was so reasonably priced and the ship is new! 1st time on a river cruise!
Hey I am 73 so I want ro have a chilll cruise next year. I don"t want to be lead around by the hand or be spoon fed.nor do I care for pampering (no butler nor me!!) but I really only want to just watch the river go by. I could even bring my own snacks.
I really like river cruises. I'm excited for this.
Emmy C
We took an AmaWaterways cruise in December 2019. It was a Christmas Markets cruise on the Rhine, and it was fantastic! The views of the castles were beautiful, and drinking the gluewein while shopping in the charming towns was wonderful, even though it was in winter. A Christmas cruise on the Danube with AmaWaterways is on my bucket list. Enjoy your cruise!
I'm dying to do a Christmas river cruise and I think ama is going to be the one I go with.
You will love this. I got an ad about bunions!
Best ship name ever!! Haha. I can't wait to see your series on that. :)
Looks like a nice cruise! I just had an epiphany though: DIY rivercruising! You can hire a boat on a canal or river in , for example, France and toodle along for a week, passing the world, having fun in locks, and in some places tunnels. I have done it a couple of times with my family, once in England, twice in France. It's really rather nice....
Ooh: I did get an advert: Air Iceland...
I’d love to hear about tui River cruises
If you go a day early the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz is interesting (a skip away with the 9€ ticket). Other than one of the Gutenberg Bibles they have several early print books. Text books and Travel Guides were popular first printed books, the world was thirsty for knowledge and adventure :)
Looking forward to the follow up. River cruises are so expensive, but we have been considering the Danube and the Nile.
I so understand your feelings with Viking! I finally thought hey I can actually save on airfare and go on a cruise from right here in MN…..then I looked at the price and just laughed! Excited to see the River cruise you’re going on! Definitely a bucket list item!!
The US river cruises are really very different than European and very pricey. We have thoroughly enjoyed our Viking River cruises and will be on another next year. We did look at Uniworld and AMA and those were as pricey as Viking.
Morgan have a blast on the river cruise!
Viking river cruises are the best. We are from USA and were hesitant to take Viking but I am now a fan. Taking our first Viking ocean this year too. They know what they are doing and have everything down to a science. Don't hesitate to try them and never say never.
Carolyn, I just simply cannot afford a Viking River Cruise. Their price point is very far outside of my budget range for any one trip.
Your videos are clever and enlightening. Thanks for putting them together.
Your hair looks FANtastic!!
And his skin is absolutely glowing!
Ooooh! A fun new experience! Also, I'm glad you made it back to Germany safe and sound. 👍 BTW you should totally pack a tiara. 👑
1st time watching ad = Target
2nd time watching ads = American River cruise & movie Luck
Thanks!
Wow, Sergeant Richard, thanks for that!
@@VeryunOfficialTravelGuidesyou deserve more...I need to join your channel...and call me Rich...no need for the "Sergeant" since I am long retired. My wife Gigi sends her love...and I lived in MN for 17 years too! Babbling...sorry.
We have done seven Viking cruises and we found them good value for money. Truck and Croisi are more costly
Sounds fun . The boat looks nice as well. Looking forward to your videos!
Thank you for introducing this wonderful place
Miss Viva Tiara is a perfect Drag Queen name (are you listening RuPaul?) I will steal that name if I ever do drag again (which I haven't for 30 years)... 💃
Thank you for providing us with this valuable information. I am a solo traveler as well and I've been looking to do a river cruise for a few years now but it has been out of my travel budget. I look forward to you bringing us along on your river cruise.
Looking Forward to hearing about your River cruise something my husband & I have been thinking about or a cruise.
Very interested on how you get on etc.
Have a Great week
Glad to find your channel.
I'm glad you're here!
Just discovered you and subscribed. Thanks for a fun informative video!
I never get advertisements on your channel. I am looking forward to your river cruise video.
We love Grand Circle Tours.
Really looking forward to your review. I want to try a river cruise, but agree, most of them are out of my price range. Did you look into TUI river cruises? Emma recently went on a budget river cruise with them. Wondering how they price compare with Viva.
@James Lucas Yes! Emma have been on couple of river cruises. Her last one was on TUI. looks to be good.
Love Aperol Spritz. Cruise in May, and our stay in Rome, had them everywhere. Quite the expert now on who makes them the best LOL
I am with you! I also am a travel advisor and I am trying VIVA end of February. My hope is to market travel for folks on a budget. Everyone wants to travel including me but my account doesn't allow me to go on viking either.
I hope you enjoy your Viva experience!
The ad was for Lomi composter.
Sounds like a great river cruise you are taking!!
Commercials: TARGET and Ladies Shapewear
i'm excited for this one. i've done 3 viking river cruises, but they no longer allow minors and my kid wants to come. so i'm interested in learning about other brands now. i saw a video about a Croisi river cruise a while back... and it didn't look that great. hope your experience is wonderful.
Check out Avalon Waterway. On our cruise there a number of kids under the age of 12 (6 to 8 kids, maybe)
@@clarkcalabrese292 Thank you so much. I will definitely check them out. My daughter is 10, so that gives me hope that she wouldn't be too out of place.
Looking forward to this, the cruise line is one I haven`t seen before, and the ship looks quite different from others I`ve seen vlogs of. Oh, and my ad was for an online puzzle game.
Look forward to hearing about this low cost river cruise. I want to do a river cruise but the costs have pushed me away. Everyone constantly tells me to go on Viking. It sounds great but as a solo traveler, they know how to gouge you. Just not reasonable. Actually most river and ocean cruises don’t care about the single traveler. So always looking for a bargain. Thanks for your honesty in reporting the good and bad.
I have cruised Avalon. Absolutely loved. It was much cheaper than Viking. Everything was included and same cruise as Viking. Our ship was beautiful. Love cruising both river and ship. So different but both great. I can't wait to hear about something new
I am so naïve it never dawned on me that some of these cruise bloggers were getting free cruises and other perks in exchange for positive reviews. I have always appreciated your straightforward nature the good the bad the ugly.
Me either!
AD halfway through was VRBO 🤷🏻♀️. Always enjoy your videos!
Sounds like a fun river cruise! BTW I got 2 ads, one for MacBook and the other for National Geographic.
I’m excited to see your river cruise experience! Someday when we get over to Europe, I want to do a river cruise so we can see more places. We aren’t fancy though….give me budget!
Sorry, Apiralspritz is my drink. I must have said it’s an apirilspritz 500 times on my last cruise. This looks like a lovely cruise.
Usually I get travel ads, this time it was for Lucky, an animated movie on Apple TV.
This is a new company for me!
I hope they're good! Looking forward to finding out and showing you in the videos :-)
I love Aperol Spritz, especially if made with blood orange juice
Totally interesting - thanks!
So funny you should mention writing a comment that has nothing to do with the video, as I have one. Please start a face book group or other social media group - for a Committee for Morgan Approved Bathrooms and Bathroom doors (a place to share approved or not approved hotel bathrooms). I am now obsessed when I travel with how how Morgan approved the bathroom and bathroom door are....
It sounds good. I dont know about rivercruises. Although i would like to go on a longboat trip through the uk once. Ive seen the waterways those things can use and it looks amazing. And scarey. (Saw a 1.6m wide waterway about 70 meters above ground) not a fan of aperol spritz. Gimme a Hugo spritz anytime.
Omg I live in Minnesota, I’m also a solo vacationer too. Im just wanting one that gives options of excursions cause like for me I could care less bout a glass museum or car museum(yes I’m going to Germany) for my very first river cruise🙂 I want to see quaint little towns mountain hills and villages!
Another option for when I go to Germany. Hopefully that'll be 2023 but might need to wait until 2024.
I look forward to showing you what it was like!
I look forward to your trip reports…I had no idea there were budget river cruises available. Also the Aperol Spritz is my very favorite cocktail lol but it’s not for everyone-my daughter hates it lol
Kohls and Pet smart. I think they're geared toward our search history. Multiple cat owner here!
Great video!!!!
A group of friends and I cruised from Budapest to Amsterdam with Gate 1. They were great 👍
Would love to see single supplement on Emerald or Tui cruises.
My ad was for Air BnB. Guess I may try one in the future. I was supposed to go on an Ama Waterways cruise next March, but had to cancel. Looking forward to see how your Viva Cruise was.
The line he traveled with
Expedia ad - very appropriate!
The new hair looks great :)
Ok so I got 2 commercials on your break. One was for Aircover BNB and the other was for Apple. Two good ones🍻
Can’t wait to see ship
My ad was about noom weight loss. #HowRude. Maybe they know I have a cruise coming up very shortly and will need them after 😂
Disney Cruise Line ad! I can handle that lol
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who doesn’t like Aperol!😂 Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one 😛
sounds good Morgan
Super!
Not a fan of the ship name, but really like the interior pics ..... Looking forward to this one !!! 😀
I got a Denny's commercial, and a children's movie trailer about luck.
If I lived in Germany, I would take a river cruise too!
My ad was for you tube music
While in Frankfurt, try Apflewein und Handkaese mit Musik 😋😋😋
Hi Morgan. Looking forward to your river cruise. Can you put CrosiEurope on your radar? Everybody in the states seems to like Viking. Thanks and safe travels.
Maybe Avalon will be more budget friendly. Would also love for you to do a River cruise in the US one day.
We did a Rhone river Avalon a few months before COVID and although nice it was NOT inexpensive. We agreed to explore less costly future alternatives so I'm very interested in what Morgan's experience is.
hi Morgan, I'm pleased to have seen this video and did enjoy it. I am looking at a Christmas cruise at the moment and only the big brands come up. Very exy. Any suggestions please. We would be coming from Australia.
wow river or bus or ocean cruises for less than 1000$! arosa croisi seems cheap offers now viva, ymt, gate1travel are reasonable
Yes asked AI there are 800£ pp cruises
About 200£ for excursion
Ocean cruise cost me $5,000 air $1,400
What is the URL for the dicount river cruise website ? we hope to undertake our first river cruise summer 2025 , thank you , regards John.
The Ad I saw was for American Cruise lines. You think Viking is expensive. Holy cannoli! Check out ACL.
I like your video. I am planning to do a European River Cruise March/April 2023. I saw some pretty good offers on TUI Tours. Have you have any experience with them? By the way, does Viva Cruises do Danube river?
Commercial was about collage drinks 🍹
Viking River Cruises are Astronomical Were talking 6 G (U.S.) for a Great Lakes cruise. I'll drive it and see more and not spend that much money.
10,000!!!!
OMG. WAY too expensive for me.
This one for you sounds good!
My commercial was Target.
How exciting Morgan! I hope you enjoy this river cruise SO much! I keep receiving political ads and even though I state to stop them they continue. I know TH-cam chooses them but I will be happy to return to cruise ads, LOL!!🤗
I like the hair! I guess I have not been on for a while...
"The Viva Tiara"? Oh, Mary.............please. Enough said about that....lol!! Commercials for DisneyPlus and AAPC certified coders, right were you said. The lobby/staircase area DOES look nice. I suppose the large window balcony, thing, is better than nothing, but............well, its better than nothing, right?
Hope you have a great river cruise with this line. I’ll be watching. I want the honest truth. Lots of 💸 and even more to travel from Anchorage. Ugh. Yes, American Cruise Line is ridiculously expensive. Hence, I’ve only done ocean cruises. ⚓️🌲 Enjoy! 👋🏼
Viva Morgan!
Commercial was VRBO
Ps got a Nordstrom commercial haha
haveafun trip
Morgan do you have a full time job or is it cruising?
My full time job is creating content for TH-cam. I also wrote a book called "Getting Stitches on a Cruise Ship" which is available on Amazon :-P
No advertisement.
I got 2 ads Priceline and Apple
American cruise lines ??
Sketchers shoes
I also do not travel on Viking. Their expensive prices, are because they get the their passengers to pay for all their advertising! They are everywhere! And the average person, sees them on their computers , and TVs constantly, and its like being brain washed! I personally love river cruising, and hsve been on every river in Europe and Asia, and we just got off cruising the Snake and Colombia rivers. ( not a top one for me! But, glad i did do it!) We also have 66 big cruise , ocean ...ones under our belt. Thanks for your content. Vickie from SE Pa USA
Ads for Target and Michaels (the algorithm knows me).
This looks like a great much less expensive cruising option. Can’t wait to see your review.
I got “The original bomb pop” 🤣 Only in America 🤣🤣
Oh wow. Those things still exist?
I guess so! Who knew! 🤣