River Cruise Essentials: What NOT to Forget to Pack

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In lieu of the soap sheets, use a vegetable peeler to shave a bar of soap & place the chips in a small, reusable, zippered plastic pouch. Just take out a small shaving when your hands are dry before washing to avoid getting the shavings wet. Easy to use, costs nothing, and no plastic container to go into a landfill.

My husband and I always wanted to do a River Cruise, unfortunately, it didn't happen. My tip for couples is, don't put off things, time does run out.

Love your videos! “This is not the time to impress people.” Why did it take me so long to learn that no one cares what I wear?

Pocketbook was what my grandmother always called it !

I did a Viking River Cruise in December for the Christmas markets. Our cruise was from Amsterdam to Basel Switzerland. Would say about half the ports we had to take a bus to get to the markets. They did I noticed separated us by age groups on the bus. We were one of the younger passengers. So, we usually got the bus the furtherest from the ship. And if you don't like your bus you can go on another bus. Nobody is taking roll call. At each port they started off with a short walking tour. I was surprised on how much we saw. but It was very fast pace. We did about 2 ports a day most days. Usually, one port in the morning then, back on for lunch and another port in the afternoon/evening. To be honest I was disappointed in the limited time we had in each town. There are towns I would love to visit again. Don't get me wrong I had a great trip. We did the post-cruise tour and I highly recommend. We spent 2 nights in Amsterdam before the cruise and 2 nights in Lucerne after the cruise. There is so much to see in Lucerne that we decided to do the Viking tour. Wow. We saw so much. There is no way I could have done that myself. The trip was great as we met a lot of nice people and became friends on facebook. The cheapest airfare for us was through Viking and we got premium economy. I did sign up for all the free tours. I think, next time I'll do more of the paid tours. The free tours are just walking tours which are great in the morning. But for the evening stop a paid tour would be nice. They have beer tasting, etc..

Pictures of documents etc. on your phone won’t do much good if you are incapacitated and first responders cannot unlock your phone. Carry paper copies of essential documents as well.

Great tips as ever Laurie ❤ you give us so much information x

Thank You Laurie..Great tips

Great tips! Thanks Laurie 💖

Good tips! We always stuff any shoes with socks, saves lotsa space.

Hello 👋🏽 I've been enjoying your videos. Thank you 😊

For our 2 week Mediterranean cruise we bought our liquids in Rome before we go on the ship…shampoo, moisturizer, sunscreen…everything. We had carry on only and it worked out great.

Thank you Laurie!

You are a treasure. This is soooooooooooooo helpful.

Hello, I found this channel a few weeks ago at the beginning of this apparently new travel/packing special interest of mine. The videos are really helpful and have eased some of my anxiety getting back into airport travelling after 5 or so years ad a diagnosis. Thank you Laurie ☺️.

The paper soap is a great idea. Never thought of that in my previous Danube River cruise trips but I’m looking to get them on Amazon. I also love the double sided eyeglass holder as I plan to bring both my sunglass prescription and regular eyeglasses. Thank you as always for your great travel tips.

I am on a Rhine River Cruise right now. Casual clothes are all that is required. Bring some short sleeve shirt and a light sweatshirt or jacket for the ship that fit under your jacket if you need another layer

Thanks Laurie!

The Viking riverboats often have a retractable cord/line in the shower for hanging your hand washed items, but I still bring a couple inflatable hangars if I need to hand wash a shirt or top. They won’t dry on a regular hangers because the front and back stick together. For several items, I have the ships laundry do them.