At our Wine-tasting in Weissenkirchen, We Learned a Lot about Wachau Wines : The Wachau Valley is one of Austria’s most famous and exciting wine regions and on the Danube River stretch of our Vienna to Paris river cruise we stopped at Weissenkirchen, one of the nine top viticultural towns in the Wachau. We were […]
Sightseeing in Vienna … worth it even in the Rain!
A Walking Tour of Vienna to Discover Vienna Off-the-Beaten Track: Paris and The heart of Europe – Uniworld River Cruise – Day 2: For our sightseeing in Vienna, we had a choice of a visit to the Imperial Treasury to see the Habsburg crown jewels or a walking tour of Vienna titled “Vienna at Second […]
Rediscovering Rhine Castles on a Rhine River Cruise
Historic and Romantic Castles Dominate This Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Site: The Middle Rhine Valley is world famous for its concentration of beautiful and grand castles and castle ruins which are a thrilling feature of its rugged landscape. Most of these castles were built in the 12th or 13th centuries and in the Middle […]
How Good is Your River Cruise Company?
How Well Your River Cruise Operator Handles a Crisis is a Mark of the Company’s Reputation: Our Uniworld Paris & the Heart of Europe Cruise was supposed to be on the River Princess starting in Vienna on June 23rd. The early June flooding of the Danube and other European rivers caused havoc to all European […]
Viking Invasion on the Rivers of Europe
Viking Launches Ten New River Boats: With the race to be the most dominant river cruising company in Europe, Viking has just christened, not one or two, but ten of its new “Longships”. At the christening ceremony at the Amsterdam’s cruise terminal, Viking Aegir, Viking Embla, Viking Bragi, Viking Skadi, Viking Atla, Viking Forseti, Viking […]
River Boats – The Class of 2014
A Condé Nast Traveller Reader’s Choice of the Best River Boats: Each year Condé Nast Traveller magazine conducts a readers’ poll to vote for the best passenger ship in the various categories. Given the ever increasing popularity of river cruising, river cruise ships are now a category of the Condé Nast Traveller survey. Survey Criteria The Condé Nast […]
Danube Cruises from Passau
Danube Cruises Starting from Passau: Situated on the confluence of three rivers, the Danube, Inn and Ilz rivers, Passau is commonly known as “The Three Rivers City”. Passau’s location makes it an ideal stop for river cruises. The longer cruises such as the popular Amsterdam to Budapest cruises call at Passau as there are many […]
A 4-Day Deluxe Danube River Cruise
A Four-Day Danube River Cruise from Vienna to Budapest: A visitor to our site recently emailed me to say that she was keen on doing a Danube River Cruise but complained that river cruises are very expensive. She thought that she could do it cheaper by hopping on and off local river boats and arranging […]
Ms Amabella – APT’s Concerto Class River Boat
Ms Amabella – APT’s New Concerto Class River Boats are Designed to be Bigger: Having introduced the Aria Class River Boats between 2006 and 2009, APT has now launched its Concerto Class River Ships with the first of two vessels commissioned in May 2010. APT’s newly inaugurated 162-passenger Ms Amabella is already a hit with […]
"River Victoria" on the Imperial Waterways of Russia
River Victoria is the Latest of Uniworld’s Russian river cruise boat: River boats operating on the Russian rivers are generally not as grand as those plying the Rhine or the Danube. As we understand from the tour manager of a company we travelled with, river cruise operators are somewhat restricted on what boats they can […]
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