River cruising

We found the food fabulous, save for the night on each cruise when the dinner was regional buffet. Ridiculous foods on that one night per cruise. The guests seem to be 90% American. We do not socialise on deck, the telly in our stateroom and a bottle of wine on our balcony is entertaining.

Re the food: one of our American cruisemates described I as 'cheap wedding reception food'. That summed it up well we thought.

Our first one was from Budapest to Amsterdam and was 95% American. This came as a surprise to us at the time. Their thinking was that it was worth the transatlantic flights for a 15 night cruise.
On another trip from Paris to the South of France there were lots of Aussies. It was another longer cruise though so worth their while making the flight.
All very friendly and great company. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

I would say 50% American

This is just what I wanted to hear. We're going to do our first river cruise with Viking from Amsterdam to Basel. We enjoy looking smart, but not dressy. DH has visions of us spending most of our time on our balcony rather than socialising / -boozing- on deck.
Can anyone tell me the main nationality of the guests on board? Is it predominantly American?

We've been on several Viking River cruises. Overall no dressing up, a few women wore sparkly tops with slacks. The cruises are grand, fabulous food, great tours, lovely rooms. Enjoy!

We've been on a few Viking river cruises and black evening trousers and some smart tops together with jewellery and a pashmina was fine for the two formal evenings.

We are going on a Viking river cruise this summer and plan to change as Jane10 says, but aren't taking anything dressy, a summer dress for me and a clean shirt for DH.

We've done several Viking cruises. People generally change for dinner but I'm sure you'd want to have a shower and change anyway after an afternoon ashore or on an excursion. Nothing fancy though. A few sparkly tops for the 'captains dinner' but not everyone. Few jackets and almost no ties in sight for men. You'll be fine.

Thank you for replying so promptly!

We have been on several river cruises and there was no dressing up.However we have no experience of Viking which I believe is one of the more up market lines.

My sister did a river cruise this autumn. No dressing up but not sure who she went with, but they are to be had