My parents in law came to our new home in Switzerland to spend a month with us. My husband had 3 weeks off so we decided to go on a trip with them besides staying at home. The problem was that my mother in law has been to most places in Europe, so it was a challenge for me to find new places for us to go. Our first idea was Eastern Europe(Prague, Berlin, Hungary, Austria, etc..) but it would be a little too much cause we would be doing all this by car, and the idea was to rest a little bit. So, we thought: "why not a cruise?", so I started looking and found the perfect itinerary, from Kiel, Germany to Copenhagen, Denmark to Stockholm in Sweden to Tallinn in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia. It was all new to all of us, not too hot and interesting to everyone! Only one problem, it was too expensive!
So here comes the first tip: be patient with cruise lines and wait for a good offer! Last year we went on a mediterranean cruise with Royal Caribbean and we got a great deal for 500 euros each for one week, and this year, I waited until mid June(to buy for a mid July trip) and the price went from 1400 american dollars to about 600 american dollars, when a one week MSC cruise trip(all food included) through Northern Europe gets to 600 american dollars, that's the time to buy it!
So of course, we bought it, but we still had about one and a half week to plan, that was partly easy because my husband's aunt lives in Germany and we wanted to spend some time there. She lives next to the Luxembourg border, and we would go by car from Switzerland to her house, to our port of call in Kiel, and we wanted something else between her house and Kiel but we had been to most of the big cities in the way(Dusseldorf, Koln) and 4 days in Hamburg seemed like a lot so of course, we decided to go to Berlin, not really in the way, but not that far too. And it was a great idea, tell you all about it later! And to be closer to the port before the cruise trip we would spend a night in Hamburg.
Ok, so now you know the itinerary, and the posts will come, one for each city, and one about cruises in general!!! Keep you posted in my posts!!!!
