The Best Travel Hack for Seeing Europe Right Now
With Europe booked and busy this summer, you’re going to need to get clever about your mode of transportation if you want to cover a lot of ground and stay cool with these heat waves like a rooftop swimming pool that goes with you everywhere you go!
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 unkept secret. Tell all your friends.
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 put a keen focus on their dining. Do you want to stay fit? Many offer bike riding options for the daily touring or full fitness programs onboard. You can take a turn about the ship roof deck to get in your steps with a view.
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 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 matchmake you with the perfect itinerary and 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! 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!
