Cruising the Rhine is one of the world’s most romantic river cruises. One of Europe’s major rivers, the Rhine originates in the Swiss Alps and flows through Germany to Holland’s North Sea. The Rhine winds through some truly beautiful landscapes with rolling, fortress dotted hillsides, atmospheric villages and charismatic cities. The Rhine Valley itself, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is renowned for its stunning vineyard-coated countryside, storybook castles and charming medieval towns.

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Rhine/Moselle River Cruises

The Moselle joins the Rhine near Koblenz and many cruises combine the mid section of the Rhine from Cologne and Dusseldorf southwards with the smaller and more intimate Moselle down to Trier. Take time to explore the Moselle terraced vineyards and south western Germany with its castles, fortresses, and villages.

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Deeply romantic and framed by blissful countryside, the Rhone etches a path from the Swiss Alps to Lake Geneva before curving south through France to join the Mediterranean at Marseilles. Winding through the idyllic winelands of Burgundy and the lavender-scented hills of Provence, an ever changing panorama unfolds along it’s banks, from serene landscapes, to the magnificent, honey-coloured town of Arles and beautiful Avignon.

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Immortalised in the Blue Danube waltz by Strauss, the Danube is the second longest river in Europe and the only river to flow from west to east. Rising in the Black Forest of Germany, this historic river meanders through the gorgeous landscapes of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, passing through peaceful valleys topped with medieval monasteries, imperious castles, sleepy, quaint villages and magnificent cities including Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava.

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Flowing across Spain and northern Portugal, the Douro is one of Europe’s lesser-known but most picturesque rivers. Curving and twisting through spectacular wine-growing regions, the Douro was traditionally used to transport wine from Portugal’s interior to Oporto’s wine houses. Port-wine grapes still flourish on the steeply terraced, riverbank vineyards and alternate with whitewashed estates, timeless villages and scented citrus and almond groves. See Oporto, Vila Real and the lovely Spanish town of Salamanca.

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Evocative and intensely beautiful, the Russian rivers of the Volga, Neva and Svir and their connecting waterways link the great cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Following the Volga north from Moscow, a Russian river cruise takes you deep into Russia's unique culture, passing hidden villages, wooden churches, fortified monasteries, spectacular rural landscapes and ancient towns finally flowing into vast lakes edged by undiscovered stone villages.

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The Nile extends 4,100 miles, making it the world's longest river. Along its Egyptian banks lie rocky, empty deserts, captivating cities like Luxor and Aswan, palm-studded oasis towns unchanged in centuries, and some of the world's oldest and most magnificent archaeological sites. Visit the Valley of the Kings with its incredible tombs of the pharaohs; towering ancient monuments and mighty temples including the 3,000-year old Abu Simbel and vast, columned Karnak.

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China's largest river, the mighty Yangtze flows 4,000 miles from snowy Tibet to the East China Sea north of Shanghai. It snakes through endlessly changing, breathtaking scenery, revealing deep gorges, mountains set with fairytale pagodas and mist-cloaked paddy fields, as well as serene villages and farms untouched by modernity. See the magnificent Three Gorges and Three Gorges Dam project. 

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Where the Rhine crosses the border into The Netherlands it breaks up into a number of wide branches such as the Lek and Waal. A network of channels and canals joins these rivers with the Maas (Meuse) that flows northward through Belgium and The Netherlands to the North Sea. These extensive waterways enable large areas of Belgium and Holland to be explored by boat. River cruises allow you to discover the flower filled fields and historical cities of the area.

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Seine River Cruises

One of Europe's great historic rivers, the Seine rises near Dijon and flows in a north westerly direction through Paris before crossing Normandy and emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre. River Cruises travel from Honfleur or Rouen to Paris or the reverse passing through the wonderful villages of Monet and the Impressionists.

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Po River Cruises

The Po is the longest river in Italy at 405 miles (652 km), rising in the Alps on Italy's western border and emptying into the Adriatic Sea in the east. The Po is navigable from its mouth near Venice to Pavia and along the way you can visit historic cities like Bologna, Cremona, Ferrara, Mantua, Padua and Verona.

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Elbe River Cruises

The River Elbe brings you the culture of Saxony flowing from the Bohemian capital, Prague to the Hanseatic city of Hamburg on the Baltic. Along its banks you will find Dresden, the "Florence of the Elbe", the pottery of Meissen, the gardens and palaces of Worlitz, the cradle of the Reformation -Luther's Wittenberg and Magdeberg and its Gothic Cathedral.

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