DANUBE CRUISE
Teresa and Rick Williams
June 7 - 21, 2009
By: terwms@swbell.net

We boarded Der Kleine Prinz riverboat
to begin the cruise on the Danube.
There were also 52 Norwegians on board who booked the trip
through a
European company.
The first level consisted of cabins, the
reception desk and storage. There was
even an elevator.
Most meals were covered in the price of the
trip and were served on the boat. The
food was not gourmet but generally good and plentiful.
Breakfast was a buffet. Lunch was a
salad buffet followed by an
entrée and fruit or dessert. For
dinner, we had an appetizer, soup, one of two entrée choices,
and
dessert. They made excellent use of
leftovers in a
variety of ways so that little food was wasted. Some of their
translated descriptions on the menus were perplexing. For the
captain's dinner at the end of the trip, we saw dessert on the menu
described as "Baked Alaska Omelette." It was normal baked alaska
so I'm not sure how they determined that it needed to be called an
omelette.
The third level was the helm and deck. A
German owns the boat and a Danish company
leases it for the cruises. They hire
only local people. The 24-member crew
was mostly Romanian and Serbian, and the service could not have been
better.