To resolve that issue you tell them you don't have child care (if you have kids) for the X days.

 

[QUOTE=Carl Spackler;1995797]Hey guys, my wife and I are considering a Viking River Cruise this Spring. We've done the Carribean cruises and didn't really enjoy them. They just seemed like food-fests. Has anyone done a Viking River, and do we get any airline rates on them?

Carl[/QUOTE/]

Carl,

Something much more memorable might be a canal barge rental through the canal systems (France, Holland, England, Germany, etc). Cheap, do-it-yourself fun at your own pace, no prior boating experience needed, wafting along intimate little canals thru pastoral European countryside with merely "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou..."

Walk along the footpaths, bike into local villages, have the wife open and close the ancient locks, as you glide through.... Doesn't get anymore romantic. You can rent one by yourself, or share.

Worth looking into

 

Same

That stinks. I only flew 3 trips during my 2 months of reserve and on my 2nd trip they did the exact same thing to my captain. He was PlSSED OFF but apparently it is completely legal in the contract.

 

I put in an APD for the 28th (and only the 28th) next month to drop day 4 of a 4-day next month. As I read 23.I.8.a, the 28th is not a day covered by the major holiday exemption. The APD was denied due to capped reserves. Reserve coverage for the 28th far exceeds 25%.

Am I trying to create a loophole that does not exist?

 

I'm guessing your trip touches the 27th which is protected from APD's due to it being the day after Thanksgiving. You have to look at the whole trip. There is no loop hole around this.

 

I move backward from line holder to reserve in Nov...never been reserve before. Question:

If I pot swap for a late Oct trip that spills over into Nov (x days), does that allow me pay-back days the same way a Green Slip in a res month would?

 

A call to CS would confirm, but I believe your scenario has all the benefits of a YS which is close to nothing with the exception of credit. An option would be to move your November X days away from the spilled days. I don't think you have the luxury of moving your X days out of the way once a spill over trip has been awarded.

 

The wife and I did one several years ago,$299 each for seven days through Dargal.com. I haven't seen one at that price in years though. It was nice, although we were the youngest on the ship by far.

Someone else mentioned the rent your own boat. We rented ours through LeBoat.com and it was a blast. Very Leisurely, met lots of great people, drank lots of fresh wine (not that old stuff! ). Also look for locaboat.com.

If you don't want to drive yourself, try: Enchante we got a tour, and it looked very nice, and the smell from the kitchen was amazing.

 

The AE results have been posted.

 

Do yourself a favor and get easy swap. You need to spend the $10/mo for flightline, but it's tax deductible and you get open time trip alerts to boot.

You can literally sort and send 200 blind "bid package" trip swaps in 5 minutes.

I never use * for swaps... way too much chance of getting a terrible trip.