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European river cruises from Paris, Budapest, Seattle or Basel in October 2026

18 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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18 European river sailings from Paris, Budapest, Seattle or Basel leave in October 2026; 13 of them, on 2 lines, have a balcony cabin for sale. The lowest balcony price per night is $500 per person, on Viking River's Viking Hervor (7 nights from Basel, Oct 29, $3,499 for the cruise). Running below their usual balcony price this month: Viking River (10% under). Prices per person with taxes and port fees, read from the booking page Oct 27, 2026.

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Viking Ingvi · Budapest
Viking Kari · Paris
Viking Gymir · Budapest
Viking Hervor · Basel
Viking Var · Budapest
Viking Gullveig · Budapest
Viking Tialfi · Basel
AmaSerena · Basel
AmaSonata · Budapest
AmaLyra · Paris
AmaSiena · Basel
AmaDante · Paris
AmaLea · Budapest
AmaViola · Basel
Avalon Tapestry II · Paris
Avalon Envision · Basel
Avalon Visionary · Budapest
Avalon Imagery II · Basel

Striped: 5 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 from Paris, Budapest, Seattle or Basel in October 2026: the lines compared (balcony cabins)

Cruise lineSailingsShipsLowest price, whole cruiseTypical per nightAgainst its usual
Viking River66 $3,499 Viking Hervor, Oct 29, 7 nights $571 ▼ 10% under
AmaWaterways77 $5,548 AmaSiena, Oct 29, 7 nights $850 typical (+1%)

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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