Avalon Waterways is providing travelers with great savings opportunities for 2009 travel on more than 25 different vacations in Europe, China, Egypt and the Galapagos. The company offers savings of $600 per couple, or $300 per person, on the air-inclusive price of any 2009 Avalon Waterways vacation. Those who want to book cruise-only will receive $250 off per couple, or $125 off person, on any 2009 Avalon Waterways cruises.
Itineraries include the nine-day Egyptian Splendor cruise. In Cairo, participants will see King Tut’s treasures, the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Giza. Then, they will fly to Aswan for a four-night Nile River cruise to Luxor. Along the way, they will visit the Aswan Dam, Temple of Isis, Valley of Kings and Valley of Queens and Luxor Temple. The tour also includes a ride through Edfu to the Temple of Horus, visits to colorful local bazaars and an excursion to the stunning monuments of Karnak. Rates start at $1,911 for cruise/land-only, including intra-tour flights.
On the nine-day Romantic Rhine itinerary, guests are taken along a guided sightseeing tour in Strasbourg, Koblenz and Cologne. There’s also a full-day excursion to Heidelberg plus a canal cruise in Amsterdam, where passengers will sail through the dramatic Rhine Gorge, take pictures of the famous Lorelei rock and sample the area’s famous Riesling wines in the village of Rudesheim. Rates start from $1,889 for cruise/land-only.
A new Windmills, Vineyards & Paris tour, which lasts for 13 or 14 days, gives cruisers a chance to experience France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium and Holland. Guests will enjoy a guided tour of Paris and travel between Paris and Metz via TGV high-speed train, sightsee in Trier and Cologne, take a canal cruise in Amsterdam, see the windmills at Kinderdijk, take a tour of Reichsburg Castle and visit a wine cellar in Bernkastel. Rates start at $3,529 for cruise/land-only.
The new 13-day Blue Danube to the Black Sea tour sails through the Iron Gates Gorge and guests will have an opportunity to sightsee with a local guide in each city, including Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest and Belgrade, as well as paprika country’s Kalocsa, Arbanassi, Veliko Tarnovo and Varna on the Black Sea. Rates start at $3,559 for cruise/land-only.
Also new is an 18-day Fascinating China & Mongolia tour with Yangtze River Cruise, which includes a four-night cruise along China’s Yangtze River and visits to the Yu Yuan Gardens in Shanghai, the Terra-cotta Warriors in Xi’an and Mongolia’s Gobi Desert (including a stay in a traditional ger). Rates start at $5,709 for cruise/land-only, including intra-tour flights.
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