My Guide to River Cruising – You’ve done Ocean cruising and fancy a change & want to try the smaller ships? – what ever your reasoning for wanting to try River Cruising, take a look at my guide before you do anything.
- Small ships carrying up to 150 passengers
- Get dropped off in the heart of the city – More time to explore
- No motion sickness
- No long queues to embark/disembark
- Excursions are all included
- Drinks are all included with lunch and dinner
- Informal, comfortable and casual – open seating dinner and no dressing up
- New scenery every day
- Almost everything is included in the price
- Travel by air, coach or rail
Where can you expect to go..
- Rhine, Main & Moselle – Usually the itineraries touch on all three rivers going to Holland, Germany and France – Main Cities/Towns: Basel, Strasbourg, Speyer, Heidelberg, Rudesheim, Koblenz, Cologne, Amsterdam, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Creussen, Bayreuth
- Rhone & Saone – Again these can be the same itinerary going to France and Switzerland – Main Cities/Towns: Chalon-sur-Saone, Mâcon, Lyon, Vienne, Tournon-sur-Rhone, Viviers, Avignon, Arles
- River Danube – For Germany, Austria, Hungary and Romania – Main Cities/Towns: Budapest, Vienna, Melk, Passau, Nuremberg, Linz, Bratislava, Belgrade, Bucharest
- Seine – Cruises in France (Paris) – Main Cities/Towns: Paris, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Giverny, Rouen, Caudebec-en-Caux, Honfleur
- Yangtze & Mekong – For anyone wanting a Far East cruise – Main Cities/Towns: Shanghai, Nanjing, Tongling, Huangshi, Wuhan, Shashi, Yichang, Chongquing, Luzhou, Yibing, Leshan, Kangding, Ho Chi Minh City, Siem Reap, Tra Vinh, Cao Lanh, Ha Tien
- Dutch Waterways – For places like Amsterdam and the Floriade cruises – Main Cities/Towns: Amsterdam, Keukenhof, Volendam, Kampen, Arnham, Floriade Expo
- Elbe – For Czech Republic & Germany – Main Cities/Towns: Berlin, Dessau, Wittenberg, Torgau, Meissen, Dresden, Hamberg, Prague
- Dnieper & Volga – For those wanting to cruise in Russia – Main Cities/Towns: Kiev, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Odessa, Sevastopol, Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Nizhni Novgorod, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Astrakhan
- Douro – For Portugal – Main Cities/Towns: Porto, Salamanca, Regua, Barca d’Alva
Wow – Stay with it to be continued………
Jill