Reviews

Great experience. The Swiss Crown is a beautiful boat. The crew and staff provided excellent service, and exceeded our expectations. Staff handling the excursions and daily schedule fell below expectations. Friendly but did not provide clear directions and details

Zwaantje Crew and guides did fantastic job from the minute I stepped on the boat to the last good bye. Meals were creative and unique – and entertaining thanks to Chef. Captain was encouraging daily swims in river Marne- I have never done this before! And despite warm days cabins remained cool and dry.

The staff was fabulous! The food was great except for the breakfast. The scrambled eggs were almost always cold. There should be healthier grain choices. Rooms were very comfortable.

This tour is so well done. The route,bikes,guide, food, were all excellent.

Four great folks on crew. All hardworking and smart, made our trip fabulous.

The ship is small and cozy and the owners are nice and work hard to please and make it a good experience. However, operating a ship with a 3 person crew is not enough. We have been on many boat and bike trips and we were never involved in loading and unloading bikes of the ship as it was this time. Cabins #1 and #2 are to be avoided, smallest and stinkiest of the 13. The thing most people remember from trips is the meals and in this case 2 of 6 were vegetarian (33%) that were very very low cost. First and last meal should always be the most memorable and in this case they did not deliver on the first meal. Good breakfasts but if you were slow you ended up with very little choice of breads or cold cuts. Having to ask is not my style. The tour is excellent and lovely places were visited. The instructions for the paths taken were poor, not the typical map like paper instructions with detailed info. Just the numbers of the cycle-paths. Overall we enjoyed the small group of people, the food was acceptable and would be better with some changes as mentioned above, improve the deck space for sitting during sailing and get another crew member to help with the chores and the bikes. Good people, well intending but need improvement to make this a 5 star tour.

The crew was friendly helpful. Rooms clean. We were 30 members of our family. For the early birds it would have been nice to share a coffee in the lobby without waking to ones like to sleep in.

The cycling was great. It may be helpful if there were ear phones or some type of communication device on the ride. With 22 people there may be something pointed out at the front of the line and the people behind don’t know what it was. Offer T shirts for sale.

We enjoyed our Bike and Barge tour from Passau to Budapest. The ebikes were wonderful, the staff were fantastic, the food was pretty good, our room was clean and roomy enough for two of us. We did about half of the offered tours which were decent, but we did find some of our own tours which we preferred. We did this tour the last week of May and would love to do it again.

Captain: Jan Mate:Robin Chef:Agnus Hostess: Sandra Guide: Simon All were exceptional! They each did their jobs extremely well and professionally. They made our trip memorable enjoyable and fun. The chef did a tremendous job in very small quarters to prepare the meals. The food was excellent, with a very diversified menu. The captain was great. He made us all feel welcome and shared his knowledge openly. The hostess was very helpful and accommodating. The mate did an excellent job assisting all crew members and the guests. The guide was also top/notch. Simon was a great leader very empathetic, very caring, very informative and just a plain good human being. He was patient and tolerant of everyone. The room, beds and bathroom were all a person needed and very practical for our needs. I recommend a bike/barge trip to everyone.