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The Sun Travel 24 Jul 2026

I took my daughter on a bucket list European river cruise

For The Sun, Tracey and her 20-year-old daughter Lola swapped backpacking for Viking's eight-day Danube Waltz — four countries, six cities and rather more Austrian schnapps than either of them intended.

Aerial view of a Danube city, a pedestrian street, a statue and a ship cabin — Viking Danube Waltz river cruise.
Source: The Sun (Open Graph image)

Tracey and daughter Lola boarded the Viking Vilhjalm in Passau and sailed down the Danube through Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary — dodging Old Delhi rickshaws for something a little more civilised. From baroque abbeys in the Wachau Valley to Bratislava's UFO Bridge and Budapest's ruin bars, the piece pitched Viking's £1,895pp Danube Waltz as multi-generational travel that actually works — with enough wine, schnitzel and Strauss to keep both mother and Gen-Z daughter happy.

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