Ive watched a lot of utube videos on croise river tours. We have only done viking tours and i know Croise is a few steps down but we arent fancy people and i think that part will be ok. It gets generally good reviews or nothing that is a real deal breaker for us other than there were quite a few people who said to expect mostly french people and some of them, both passengers and staff, seemed like they really didnt want to interact in english with english speaking people. They just felt they were sort of ignored and were sort of treated rudely. Now I know how ugly some Americans can be and ive been to france a few times and have never had negative thoughts about how we were received and I strenuously object when people who dont know what they are talking about go on about how the french people dont like americans. Most who say that have never been there. Now Croise website of course will tell you they speak french and english on tours and onboard announcements.
Has anybody had experience on Croise provence small barge boats that travels canals or their larger river ships that go down the rhone/soane rivers in provence? What was your experience with the language difference? My husband speaks no french and ive had some french but i am really bad at understanding the spoken word and not very good at speaking. I can read some. Im not great at languages. But we have never found communication to be a problem in France. Do you suspect these people are just “ugly Anericans”?
Dont tell me to take the one that Rick Steves takes in his videos - Papillion I think. I’ve looked into those and they are too expensive for me. But if you know of something that is more like Croise, i will look into them. Thanks.