RHINE BOATS

You don't say where you're STARTING the cruise. Boppard is quite nice. But so is Oberwesel, and Bacharach too, if you happen to be passing them. It's actually not easy - or even advisable - to continue by boat from Boppard to Koblenz. Let's say you're on the absolute earliest boat from Bingen at 9:30 and reach Boppard at 11:50 for lunch. The next boat is at 12:50. But if you want to visit a winery or take the chairlift ride or see or do anything else in Boppard, or even just have a leisurely lunch, you won't make that boat, and then there's no other boat until 16:00! And after Boppard, the scenery is really just so-so except for Marksburg Castle; it becomes downright industrial around Koblenz, so why bother? And if you end up at the Koblenz dock, you then have a long walk to the train station if you're headed elsewhere. Just end the cruise in Boppard and catch a train from Boppard to Koblenz if that's where you want to end up - it takes about 15 minutes instead of 1 hour 20 minutes, the fare is 5.60€, you will see Marksburg Castle from the train window, and the cruise fare to Boppard is 10€ less than if you cruise to Koblenz.

We took the KD Rhine from Bingen to Koblenz back in 2009. We were on the Dusseldorfer. We had a lovely meal right on the boat as we watched the scenery go by. Here is the schedule if you don't have it already. If still possible, a meal on the boat might be fun if your only reason for stopping in a town is to have lunch. That particular ship was mostly a restaurant!

You said you will be traveling Rhine to Koblenz which leaves no starting point. Did you mean to say Rhens to Koblenz?? If Rhens is the case, I would have lunch on the boat and watch the scenery go by. Rhens is north of Boppard and there isn't much between there and Koblenz.