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European river cruises in May 2028

19 sailings on 3 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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19 European river sailings leave in May 2028; 8 of them, on 2 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $673 per person, on AmaWaterways' AmaLea (14 nights from Amsterdam, May 13, $9,428 for the cruise). Running above their usual balcony price this month: Viking River (11% over). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 28, 2026.

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Viking Gefjon · Budapest
Viking Ve · Amsterdam
Viking Gymir · Amsterdam
Viking Egdir · Budapest
Viking Ve · Budapest
Viking Gefjon · Amsterdam
AmaViola · Amsterdam
AmaLea · Amsterdam
AmaSofia · Budapest
AmaLea · Budapest
AmaSofia · Amsterdam
AmaPrima · Basel
Avalon View · Amsterdam
Avalon Impression · Amsterdam
Avalon Illumination · Budapest
Avalon Envision · Basel
Avalon Imagery II · Basel
Avalon Illumination · Amsterdam
Avalon View · Basel

Striped: 11 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.

European river cruises in May 2028: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
Viking River21 $9,999 Viking Ve, May 16, 14 nights $714 ▲ 11% over
AmaWaterways64 $7,708 AmaPrima, May 31, 10 nights $673 typical (0%)

Per person, taxes and port fees included, read from the booking page Oct 28, 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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