About Mekong Cruiser

The lower Mekong has two kinds of cruise and well over a dozen boats and ships, sold by their operators and by agents in several countries and currencies. Comparing them means reading operator pages, product PDFs and agents' listings, noticing where they disagree, and checking what each fare leaves out. That is the work we do.

Every fact on this site carries its source and the date we read it. Where two sources disagree, as they do on AmaDara's cabin count, AmaMaya's first season and Bassac's cabin numbers, we say so instead of choosing the figure that reads better. Where an operator does not publish something, such as Heritage Line's inclusions, we write 'not stated' and ask.

• Not a cruise line. We do not own, operate or crew any vessel.
• Not an operator's representative. Naming a ship on this site does not mean we hold a contract or an allocation on it.
• Not a land tour company. We deal with overnight cruises; we can note the obvious road or air link at each end, but we do not build delta land tours.
• Not a review site. We describe what operators publish and what we can check.

We do not publish customer reviews or testimonials. A review on a site that sells the thing being reviewed is hard to trust, and the experience on a river cruise depends as much on the month, the water and the ship as on anything we do. For independent opinion of a specific ship, read the reviews on independent cruise and travel sites, and weigh recent ones above old ones, since several ships have been refitted or renamed.

What we can offer instead is the evidence: each ship's facts with their source and date, and a written comparison of your options that you can check line by line.

If you have not decided between a delta boat and a ship, start with delta boat or Cambodia ship. If you have, go straight to the cruise overview. If you know your month, the water page tells you what that month changes.