Travel on the Danube from Austria to Romania

All Danube cruise boats are extremely expensive. 80 per cent of the passengers are usually older than 70 years.
Unlike high sea cargo boats, river boats have usually no cabs for passengers. The lingua franca on board would be Ukrainian or Russian anyway.

Hi meckerdv,
many thanks for your answer.

However, what do you exactly mean with? --> The lingua franca on board would be Ukrainian or Russian anyway.

I mean that the staff of Danube Cargo boats come often from Eastern European countries and that you cannot expect them to know the Englisch language. If you speak Rusian, you might be fine; but as I told you they usually don't take passengers.

As to the cruise boats, I could just add that the many land excursions are usually adapted to the age of the passengers.

Liked the idea, innovative and sensational.
To my understanding, following link will help you out if you explore it reasonably.
http://www.ferrylines.com/en/

hello cuppidabbas,
thanks for you comments and the link you sent me...

i checked it out quite thoroughly yesterday however i couldn't find a connection on the river danube, looks like this link only covers sea ferries... or have i missed something?

Thanks for your help, Georg.

You misssed nothing; I checked the link too. For river cruises, you may have a look at
http://www.rivercruise.com/ticker.cfm

if you get until the Black See, do not miss the Danube Delta. Maybe it is more interesting then all the cruise from Wien.
I

Hi
Interesting Itinerary. ;z)

I posted somewhere else, that I am interested in going from Greece to India.
I am open to go by both Sea or land, (then continueing south or west)
I won't leave in summer or Fall probabilly 2013.

I'll check out the seafaries link above. I have looked at cargo ships before. and some seafaries...
I like the idea but the cost is more then flying. and I intend to travel fairly light anyway. If traveling heavy or moving then it makes a lot of sense--otherwise.

Meanwhile I'm checking out a cheap side trip to the black sea (Romania is looking much better then Bulgaria at the moment).
flying up from Athens and then taking the bus back one town at a time.. - advice?

Why does no one talk about the other side of the Black sea? ;z))
I can believe the tours in this area are for 70 year olds.. from previous trip to Bulgaria.. It was very easy easy trip. (but my GF spoke some russian.. ..