Long version for another time, I recently went on a Viking river cruise of the Rhine -
Coming from a cruise town, I was baffled that the internet didn't have info on when the ship would be in port. I keep a SE Alaska cruise scheduled bookmarked during tourist season, so Reddit/TripAdvisor/etc.'s response being "just go with the flow" didn't mesh with my travel style or my brain. Without this information, it was harder for me to advance-plan my own tours, meet up with friends along the way, etc. In my planning, I did note when the earliest tour left and the latest tour ended as a jumping off point, which mostly worked out.
So for the good of the internet, and the six people looking for it, here's when we docked and undocked at each of our ports:
Basel - 7pm scheduled disembarkation (7:41pm actual). There was a walking tour offered in the afternoon after check-in and before dinner.
Breisach - Docked around 4:30am, departure around 7pm.
Strasbourg - Docked around 7am, departure around 6:30pm. (The ship is docked in Kehl, Germany, about a half-hour drive away.)
Speyer - Docked around 5am, cast-off for Worms 9am. Briefly docked in Worms to pick up passengers from the morning tour.
Rüdesheim - Docked 5pm, scheduled departure at 7am (8am actual).
Koblenz - Arrival 1:30pm, cast-off around 3am.
Cologne - Docked 8am, 11pm departure.
Kinderdijk - Docked 1:30pm, 6:30pm departure.
Amsterdam - Docked around 5:30am (I think, because there were people departing for the airport at 5:45am). We could disembark of our own accord anytime before the next cruise left late in the evening.
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