ADVENTURES, CHALLENGES, AND INSIGHTS OF A COUPLE IN EARLY RETIREMENT
Our Viking cruise ended with a full-day tour of Bucharest and then a night at the JW Marriott Grand Hotel. We had opted to stay another five nights in the Romanian capital to see it in more detail.
This article describes the stops we made each day on our cruise along the Danube. With Viking, there was an included tour each day. Most days we took the included tour but there were days when we decided to go it alone.
In the Budapest article, we told you about everything we did in the city including the tour offered as part of our Viking cruise. So this article is just about the cruise itself and how we came to be on the Viking Lif.
We traveled to Budapest primarily to board our Viking Cruise down the Danube but we also wanted to give ourselves a few days to explore all the city had to offer. Budapest is a beautiful modern city that I would encourage you to visit.
Our target after Vienna was Budapest to catch our cruise on the Danube and we decided to take a train. The train ran right through Bratislava, Slovakia, so we decided to stay two nights on the way to Budapest.
