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UPDATE: The First Ever Family Friendly River Cruise

UPDATE: Disney have now revealed more details on their plans to enter the world of river cruising. Adventures by Disney has announced some brand new sailings for its 2016 itineraries. There are now five sailings along the Danube in Summer 2016, and two more festive sailings planned for December that year. Guests interested in a Disney river cruise will be happy aboard the AmaViola, one of the AmaWaterway’s custom built river vessels made with families in mind. Destinations on the itineraries include stops in Germany, Austria Slovakia and Hungary with Disney Adventure Guides showing passengers all that these fabulous locales have to offer. While on board, adults can participate in wine tasting, music, dancing and a fitness centre to work away the cruise calories. Families can also spend quality time with the children with Junior Adventurers Activities including game nights, movies, karaoke, relay races, chess lessons and video games. The first Adventures by Disney sailing takes place July 2016, if you’re interested in sailing with Disney and AmaWaterways make sure to book now! Original story as follows… Disney have today announced that they will be partnering with AmaWaterways to bring the Disney brand to river cruising! And no, this time it’s definitely not an April Fools! Disney and AmaWaterways will be offering family-focused river cruises, starting with the Danube in 2016. AmaWaterways and Disney are having a new vessel...

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Make a Splash on your Next Cruise: Top 13 Perfect Cruise Pools

If the sea that surrounds your cruise liner is a little too choppy for you and the opportunities to snorkel, dive and paddle offshore don’t float your boat, why not choose a cruise liner that makes a splash with an impressive on-board swimming pool? Quench your thirst for swimming, splashing and sliding by diving into our top thirteen…   13. Seabourn Quest Plunge Pool As elegant as those who sail on this luxury line, the Seabourn Plunge Pool doesn’t boast any extravagant bells and whistles. There’s no slides or water coasters. What you get is a simple but stylish...

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The Ultimate Excursion Bucket List – Part Two

Continuing on with Part two our Ultimate Excursion Bucket List – (Click here to read Part One).… Holi festival, India Holi is a spring festival free for all in which participants will throw paint powder and coloured water at friends, family and even perfect strangers. Top Tip: Be warned, anyone is fair game! Normally taking place mid-March (the date changes each year depending on the vernal equinox); it’s the perfect chance to arrange a couple of pre or post cruise days to enjoy a truly unique experience. Just make sure it doesn’t occur on the day you’re embarking your ship! Dress codes may have changed in recent years but head to toe, multi coloured, paint covered tuxedos are still considered a no no in the main dining room. Visit the ruined temple of Ta Prohm Not all excursions are done along the coast; taking a river cruise gives you some great opportunities for awesome sight seeing! If you ever find yourself in Cambodia make sure you head down to see the Angkor Wat complex. The Cambodians are so proud of it they’ve even put it on their national flag! (One for the Fact Fans: Angkor Watt is the only monument to feature on any national flag!) Top Tip: Depending on how long you’re in Cambodia you might want to skip Angkor Watt (if you can’t do both) and head to Ta Prohm...

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Re-creating cruise line food at home

There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about how advanced new cruise ships like Anthem of the Seas are. Whilst it’s true, we all know the one thing cruise lines have been and always will be famous for and that’s their food! Up until now though the only place you’ve been able to get cruise quality food has been on a cruise ship. However……. Being the helpful people we are we thought we’d share some of our behind the scenes knowledge and get some of the amazing recipes on-board and share them with you here. We...

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Viking – Bringing the River to an Ocean near You

Viking Cruises have dominated their niche in the cruising industry and well and truly sailed (along the rivers of the world) with it. Having become the fastest growing river cruise provider in the seventeen years since its inception the company has decided that this isn’t enough for their high-flying (or not, as the case may be) aspirations. Nope! They now want to break the ocean cruise market too, providing small-ship ocean cruises for those who want to sail across the open seas as often as they love cruising along the rivers.   What can they provide though, that hasn’t...

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