One of the mistakes that ocean cruisers often make when they want to try a river cruise, is thinking they can book it just two or three months in advance. We then get to deliver the rather unfortunate news that the river cruise they want is sold out and that they should have started planning their river cruise a year or more in advance.
If you’re thinking about doing a Danube cruise that includes The Passion Play at Oberammergau, then we need to be looking at TWO years in advance.
We learned this lesson the hard way this past week when we tried to book some clients onto Avalon Waterway’s Passion Play cruise, and discovered it is completely sold out for the entire 2020 season already!
Luckily, we were able to find space on Viking for them.
For those who don’t know, the Passion Play takes place just once every 10 years in the small Bavarian town of Oberammergau in Germany. The play is about the last days of Jesus Christ, and was original performed in 1634 as a vow to God for the town being spared from the Bubonic Plague.
It is still performed by the local people, and the 2010 production involved over 2000 Oberammergau residents. Unlike other plays you may have seen, this one has a 3-hour intermission between the opening and closing acts, and during that time they feed you dinner.
The river cruise packages which include tickets to this play normally involve 2 or 3 nights on shore in Munich or Oberammergau either before or after the river cruise. Most often, the ship travels between Nuremberg and Budapest.
So if this is something you’re considering, you’d be well advised to book it sooner rather than later. It’s a long wait until 2030 for the next production.
Click here to learn more about The Passion Play CruiseTour with Viking River Cruises: https://www.vikingrivercruises.com/cruise-destinations/europe/oberammergau/2020-munich-budapest/index.html
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Sue Bradley
Sue Bradley
