My daughter and son-in-law did a cruise down the Rhine River in July. The cruise boat itself and the food were wonderful she said. It was a smaller cruise line, not one of the bigger cruise lines. Since it was a smaller cruise line, she thought they had to depart the boat in not-as-nice areas as the bigger boats. And they ended up leaving the boat alltogether in France, along with a few other couples, because there was a government shutdown and they couldn't go on the bus tours that were planned.