We’re sailing on Viking Grand European Tour from Budapest to Amsterdam on 9/25. How will flooding affect our trip. Viking has no notifications posted yet.
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Our river cruise this week was canceled 9/18. Water levels were too high this week. Hopefully water levels go down by next week for yours.
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OP
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Thank you for responding. Sorry your trip was canceled. Were you scheduled with Viking or was it another cruise company?
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B’ham, WA
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I am watching river levels also.
From what i read they expect river levels to drop by 9/24. I sure hope so, we are scheduled Passau down starting 9/28.
Rivers are still rising around Budapest, but going down in Vienna and Bratislava. Not sure how long it takes the crest to travel down river.
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Magyarország / Rep of Texas
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Looks like the crest has come, things should start getting better now: https://sites.research.google/floods/l/47.5937/19.0812/13/g/hybas_2120492220
The newest videos I could find.
https://youtu.be/C_GTxU2zwWE?si=rGoN7XNLYDy7opog
https://www.tiktok.com/@el_pinche_gringo/video/7416099530640297248
https://youtu.be/UO-Wdy8jeRw?si=5xuuG6mrdL5A3U0s
https://youtu.be/nNtr6g2N6dE?si=OrbJ0Ey4mWvkCDjl
All about 12 hours old, but you can see that the water is still way below the upper embankment wall. The lower level that is under water is only a road and a walkway and the gangways to the ships. But I suspect it came up a bit more since these were made.
And one for fun: https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ai7Zk-szxfTJhs87tkzjPPdE7lp7lQ?e=IKXE1x
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Alsenborn, Germany
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You can use this link to get current flood status, and get some expectations of follow-on conditions, but it won't let you know if there are obstacles like flotsam or debris or damaged bridges. https://earlyfloodalert.com/paw/index.html?commonid=24225000-de
Posted by
ATL, USA
509 posts
I was on a Viking cruise last week Budapest to Passau. We disembarked on Sunday morning. On Saturday the fire department in Passau was busy placing sandbags along the riverfront.
Our ship was supposed to be on its way back to Budapest with another group of passengers, but has been in Linz since Monday, per Cruise Mapper (on that website you can look up the current location of the ship you're supposed to sail).
There's a thread on Cruise Critic about water levels on the Danube. Someone has been posting information about the locks between Budapest & Passau and about half of them have reopened. So I guess the situation is slowly improving, but no idea how that might affect your sailing.