Jill’s Special Guide For River Virgins

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


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Thank you for visiting my blog. I started my career in the travel industry over 30 years ago at Page & Moy Holidays booking short and Long haul holidays, tailor-made packages, ski trips and cruises & was able to experience luxury destinations and hotels around the world which was an absolute…

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