Rhein cruise from St Goar

Up river or down? Before Oct 6 (High season) or after (Low season)?

Are you looking at the K-D website? Top right corner, tap on the symbol with the 3 horizontal lines. Select English on the drop down

Best cruise segment lies between Bingen and St Goar. Staying in St Goar? If so, it's generally a good approach to first catch the train to Bingen and to cruise back to St. Goar.

Bingen - Rüdesheimer cruises sends off boats from Bingen at 11:15 and 14:00 every day of the week until Nov. 2, when its season closes. Their cruise takes 2 hours. See the Loreley Fahrt time table at the top of this page; no language skills needed:

https://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.de/cms-data/file/Fahrplaene--Linienfahrten.pdf

In October there are usually a few cruises from St Goar each day, mostly late morning to mid afternoon. Toward the end of the month there can be fewer, so just check the schedule when you’re there.

Russ is right.

I was in St Goarhausen (across the river from St Goar) last night and the boat landing had very noticeable signs stating that the schedules will be changing to the winter (off season) soon. These towns will be dead in a month. I've walked Cochem and the Rhine towns in late October/early November and 3/4 of the businesses are closed and the streets are empty of everyone but the locals.