The wife (no pics) found a river cruise in Europe that she wanted to try. I was skeptical because I'm not 85 years old. However, I was wrong.
She found a cruise on Avalon that started in Le Havre and worked its way down the Seine into Paris over an 8 day period. The key here is to find a cruise that labels itself "active" or something. The demo is active retiree types. The other cruise are people that are so old they can barely get on the boat. (True.)
We flew into Paris and spent 4 days there before the cruise line drove us via bus out to Le Havre. (About 2-3 hours.) The first day was a trip out to the Normandy beaches, which was a bucket list trip for me. From there we worked our way down the river with some daily excursions into the various towns. What I liked about the cruise was that once we got on the ship, we were done moving around for 8 days. Basically a floating hotel. Food was great the entire time. People were great, too. We're 50 and while we were still the youngest ones on the ship, everyone was friendly and outgoing.
I'm someone who never wanted to go on a cruise for a whole list of reasons but we really enjoyed the river cruise and wondered if anyone else had done one...?