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Azamara vs Carnival vs Viking River vs Silversea vs Explora Journeys cruises: European rivers in April 2027

166 sailings on 5 lines · prices per person for the whole cruiseprices for two sharing a cabin, whole cruiseprices per person, per night, taxes & port fees included.

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166 Azamara and Carnival and Viking River and Silversea and Explora Journeys sailings leave in April 2027; 136 of them, on 1 line, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $471 per person, on Viking River's Viking Gullveig (7 nights from Budapest, Apr 3, $3,299 for the cruise). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 27, 2026.

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Viking Egil · Regensburg
Viking Mimir · Amsterdam
Viking Vilhjalm · Budapest
Viking Vidar · Budapest
Viking Eldir · Amsterdam
Viking Vali · Budapest
Viking Mani · Basel
Viking Eir · Amsterdam
Viking Vilhjalm · Passau
Viking Mimir · Antwerpen
Viking Vidar · Passau
Viking Eldir · Basel
Viking Tir · Basel
Viking Vali · Passau
Viking Magni · Antwerpen
Viking Var · Passau
Viking Egil · Passau
Viking Aegir · Budapest
Viking Baldur · Budapest
Viking Atla · Budapest
Viking Kara · Basel
Viking Embla · Budapest

Striped: 30 sailings have no balcony price listed in the last two weeks. The bar shows the cheapest cabin that is priced (or, where none is, the lowest fare in the Cruisebound catalog); tap it for that sailing.

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Each line is folded to one row: its price range, and a dot on every day one of its ships sails, coloured by the best sailing that day. Tap a line to open it ship by ship: each bar is one sailing, from the day it leaves for as many nights as it lasts; the outlined bar is the cheapest here. Sailings are listed in the month they leave; a bar ending in → continues into next month. Tap a bar to open that sailing. “Usual” is the typical price of the same cabin on other dates of the same sailing, else the same ship or line at that length. Taxes and port fees included, except Viking River, whose prices exclude them.

Azamara vs Carnival vs Viking River vs Silversea vs Explora Journeys cruises: European rivers in April 2027: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
Viking River13646 $3,299 Viking Gullveig, Apr 3, 7 nights $714 typical (+9%)

Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Oct 27, 2026. “Against its usual” is the middle of this line’s sailings here, each compared with the same cabin on other dates of the same sailing, else the same ship or line at that length.

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