DESTINATIONS — CRUISE
Wachau Valley
Spanish Riding School
Saga Cruises combines a
seven-night cruise from Budapest to Passau and back to Vienna with three nights in the Austrian capital. Prices start at £1,599, including flights, transfers and half-board accommodation in Vienna, departing October 14. The River Cruise Line has
cruises between Amsterdam and Budapest (these also sail the Rhine, Main and Main-Danube Canal), one-week round-trips from Passau in Germany, or between Budapest and Passau or Nuremberg on the Main-Danube Canal.
Viking River Cruises’ eight-day
Romantic Danube cruise between Budapest and Nuremberg costs from £1,345, including flights and transfers, for departures on November 14. Instead of Passau, which is so busy that boats often have to moor side-by-side, AmaWaterways starts and ends cruises in nearby Vilshofen, using the same flight gateway of Munich.
Several companies link a
seven-night Danube cruise to three nights in Prague either at the start or end of the itinerary. AmaWaterways offers three nights in Munich as an alternative to Prague. The 10-night package starts at £2,242 excluding flights, departing November 9. Tauck’s Danube Reflections sandwiches a seven-day cruise from Regensburg in Germany to Vienna between two nights in Prague and two nights in the Austrian capital. Cruise-only prices start at £3,145 for departures on July 15, including excursions to a clutch of art and music museums, and a dinner and dance in a Viennese palace.
introduced a cruise-and-stay option that adds three days in Budapest to a five-day Danube cruise from Passau to the Hungarian capital. Prices start at £849, including flights and transfers. A 10-day option with travel by train starts at £979, including a night’s accommodation in Frankfurt and Munich.
Shearings’ new 10-day Three Cities of the Danube holiday takes passengers from Linz in Austria to Budapest and back to Passau. Prices start at £1,369, including coach travel from the UK and a night in a hotel in each direction. There is also plenty of choice for clients who want to cruise the
lower Danube, including seven- night voyages between Hungary and either Bulgaria or Romania, as well as cruises all the way from Amsterdam to Romania for those with three weeks to spare. APT has an eight-day Voyage
through Eastern Europe, from Budapest to Ruse in Bulgaria from £2,450, including flights and transfers, departing April 13. Amadeus River Cruises has a 10-day Musical Journey from Bucharest to Vienna with classical concerts on board and ashore.
Cruise-only prices start at £2,116, including
eight excursions, for departures on June 4. Uniworld’s new 19-day
Grand European Explorer adds two nights in Prague and two in Bucharest to the start or end of a voyage between Nuremberg and Giurgiu (about 90 minutes from Bucharest). Cruise-only prices start at £5,518, departing April 27. TW
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FAST FACT
Clia UK & Ireland figures reveal that 41% more Brits
cruised the Danube in 2014 than in 2013
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