The Travel Factory has a great itinerary scheduled on a Viking River Cruise to Paris and the Heart of Normandy, departing on October 31-November 7, 2019. Reservations were secured for this group trip back on May 3, 2018. By mid-November, 2018, that departure was already sold out!!!
In the past 4-5 years, river cruising has become the cruise of choice for many of our more mature vacationers. One of the reasons for that is that the owner of one of the more popular river cruise lines, Viking River Cruises, has openly declared that the demographics of his ships is the 55+ passenger, and please, no children.
Last week we talked about the popularity primarily of the European river cruises, but I think it has piqued the interest of a lot of cruisers who might be interested in the availability of cruises in the rivers of the United States, as well as the small ship cruising of the U. S. coasts. Anyway, we’ve had more inquiries along this line recently.
I talked a little bit at the end of January about river cruising, especially in Europe. We promoted a river cruise on the Rhine for this year in November, and it sold out by August of last year; furthermore, to take advantage of the great rate, it was fully paid, cruise and air by middle December.
For the past two years, we have seen an uptick in clients booking river cruises, especially in Europe. . . not only in Europe but also in China and now here in the United States.
