The Best Travel Hack for Seeing Europe Right Now
With Europe being the top booked destination for me and many other travel advisors, you’re going to need to get clever about your mode of transportation if you want to visit several of the most popular destinations and make getting around seamless on your very own floating hotel.
Do you want to know the best travel hack there is for Europe this summer? River cruising.
🛳️ See Europe in Style on a Ship
Cruise into the center of every amazing city in Europe by way of the water - can’t think of anything better!
What are you options?
With the Moselle, Danube and Rhine Rivers zigzagging across Europe, you can glide into city centers and seamlessly manage multi-country itineraries without breaking a sweat. These river cruises are intimate, so you won’t feel like your pouring off a ship with hoards of people. The beauty of it all, you only have to unpack once. River cruising is the way to go.
When the ship serves as you accommodations, you don’t have to fight for hotel availability with prices on the rise. While you’re fast asleep, many of the ships use that time to relocate to the next destination, so you wake up refreshed and in a new destination to explore. Touring and dining are all taken care of so all you have to do is show up. The value of river cruising from middle of the road to higher end lines is there, no matter which you choose.
It’s truly the best (un)kept secret. Allow me to match you with the best itinerary!
With many weaving through the best wine regions, you can cruise on wine-focused itinerary with a wine director. If you’re a foodie, lines like Riverside Luxury Cruises and Uniworld put a focus on higher-end dining. Do you want to stay fit? Many offer a daily bike riding option for touring or full fitness programs onboard. You can take a turn about the ship roof deck to get in your steps while watching the rolling hills and small towns drift by.
There’s so many choices, itineraries and lines to choose (AmaWaterways, Viking, Uniworld, Riverside Luxury Cruises, Belmond, Tauck and more) that you might want to ask a travel advisor (me!) with knowledge of river cruising and the styles of ships from larger to even hotel barges that are more intimate and truly epitomize slow travel. In recent years, I was on a quest to buy and operate a hotel barge, as well as, took Barge School to achieve my RYA License to boot. I will gladly match you with the perfect itinerary and ship as well as get you travel agent perks on top of that!
Leave the Christmas Decorating and Plans to Your Cruise Director!
If you haven’t already booked your holidays, the Christmas Market Cruises are some of my absolute favorites especially AmaWaterways! The passengers tend to be families, multi-generational trips and skew younger. We have enjoyed a few Christmas Market Cruises and made some friends that we keep still.
If you haven’t river cruised, you’re missing out!
