Traveling Well Includes… • Voted 2012 “Top River Cruise Line” for families by the readers of Travel + Leisure • All private Tauck shore excursions – $1,700 Value! – on a 7-night Rhône River cruise • An entertaining dinner & a haunted museum in Paris; underground passages and food in Lyon • Camargue cowboys, black bulls and gypsy music; chocolate tastings and a cooking school
• New for 2014 – Unlimited complimentary beverages aboard ship including regional wine, beer & premium spirits, specialty coffee, tea & soft drinks
• Airport and train station transfers upon arrival and departure as noted
• 23 meals, all gratuities for Tauck’s staff, ship’s crew, guides and drivers; applicable fuel surcharges, porterage & service charges
Garden. Meet the resident spirits of le Manoir to hear tales of intrigue and legends about historic Parisian haunts. The evening is free for you to experience a taste of Paris as you like. Meals B
3. HUNT FOR TREASURE IN THE LOUVRE There are more than 35,000 art treasures in the Musée du Louvre, sharing the spotlight with the Mona Lisa. See how many turn up on today’s scavenger hunt inside this former palace. It’s all aboard the high-speed TGV around noon for a rail ride to Lyon, where ms Swiss Emerald waits for your arrival. Settle into your riverboat cabin for your first night on the river and join your Captain tonight for a welcome dinner. Meals BD
4. LIFE IN LYON & ABOARD YOUR RIVERBOAT Join us on shore as we explore Lyon, first at the hilltop Basilique de Fourvière, a 19th-century cathedral that overlooks the city and the river with amazing views. Then, back down in Vieux Lyon, wander through medieval lanes to hidden courtyards
and underground traboules (passageways) as you walk back in time to the 4th century where spirits of the past still linger. This afternoon, get a taste of Lyon, “Fear Factor” style. Meals BLD
5. AN AMAZING ROMAN TEMPLE IN VIENNE Your riverboat docks in Vienne this morning, home to ancient ruins and a temple that looks much the same as it did when the Romans built it centuries ago. Take a walking tour through town, perhaps heading up the top of Mt. Pipet for great views of the river and countryside below, and stop for a tasty treat in town. Your riverboat cruises to Viviers this afternoon. Meals BLD
6. VIVIERS: PASSAGEWAYS & PÉTANQUE Explore the little town of Viviers, frozen in time since the Middle Ages. Join our local guide for a walk past old stone homes that had small doors for their human residents and larger ones for the heat-generating livestock that lived inside with them in the days of old on the way to petite Cathédrale Saint-Vincent,
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When we arrived at the private ranch in la Camargue and saw the entire family on their white horses waiting to welcome us to their home, we knew this would be a memory that would last a lifetime! – Cindy Clarke, CT
” 38 Bon Voyage! France Family River Cruise #1 IN GUIDED FAMILY TRAVEL
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