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£1,203 pp cruise-only – include a performance at Budapest’s Opera House and a choice of three musical events in Vienna, while the Rhine Music Cruise – (leaving Basel on October 22 and priced from £1,461 pp cruise-only) offers an organ recital in Strasbourg, and a visit to Beethoven’s house in Bonn, Germany followed by a piano recital. Hotel barge operator European Waterways
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gobarging.com) also courts music lovers, with an annual Opera Cruise which travels from Venice across the Venetian Lagoon and up the River Po to Mantua during the Verona Opera Festival. Marketing Director Chris Gant says this is a perennial favourite, as are autumn walking cruises through Burgundy timed to coincide with the wine harvest. “We attract a lot of special interest groups of between eight and 20 people on these cruises,” he says, adding that World War 1 themed cruises through northern France have particular appeal to special interest groups, as barges can cruise through the battlefi elds on waterways like the Canal du
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Nord and Canal de la Somme, which are inaccessible to larger vessels. Natalie O’Mahoney , Sales Manager for AmaWaterways UK (
amawaterways.co.uk) says that whatever the size of vessel, agents will fi nd river cruising an increasingly easy product to sell to clients. “There’s now lots of support - in the shape of
tutorials, fam trips and presentations - for agents keen to build their river cruise knowledge,” she says. “That knowledge is worth gaining, as clients see river cruising as a high quality experience they’re prepared to spend money on.” O’Mahoney regards themed sailings as an
excellent opportunity for agents willing to present to local organisations and propose group sailings. “AmaWaterways has really boosted its themed sailings in recent years,” she says, “ and 2016 will see us offer fi ve art themed cruises and doubling our wine themed cruises to 34 departures, including new `Taste of Bordeaux’ sailings along the Garonne and Dordogne”. Looking to Christmas, Uniworld’s newest ship, Maria Theresa, is sailing the Enchanting
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Christmas & New Year’s Cruise. The 11-day trip journeys down the Danube river from Passau to Budapest departing on December 23. Highlights on this itinerary include the chance to sip cocktails with Princess Anita von Hohenberg in her Castle in Austria, and sampling the Wachau Valley’s fi nest white wines in a baroque village. Christmas Day is spent in two Austrian towns – Salzburg and Oberndorf. Prices start from £3,289pp.
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