Peter Deilmann Cruises is now accepting bookings for its 2009 schedule of European river cruises, holding fares to within five percent of 2008 pricing. Full details are currently available on the company’s Web site, with hard copy and downloadable versions of the 2009 Deluxe “Great Rivers of Europe” brochure available in late September.
Information on the Deilmann’s nine- to 17-day all-inclusive cruise tour vacations will soon be available online as well. Options include 11 different offerings with more than 200 departures, combining cruises with shore excursions, hotel stays and sightseeing.
Among the slight increases in 2009 rates is a fuel surcharge of $10 per night, per passenger; 2008 sailings do not have a fuel surcharge.
Deilmann’s eight river ships are all non-smoking and have passenger-to-crew ratios of 2½ to 1. The company is offering 255 European river sailings between March 22 and Nov. 8, 2009 on seven- to 14-night cruises; most cruises will run seven nights.
The Danube River is the focus of cruises of the Mozart and Casanova, sailing roundtrip from Passau on weeklong cruises calling in Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava and wine villages and small towns in Austria and Hungary. The 10- and 11-night cruises between Passau and Romania’s Tulcea are offered in June and July. One-week cruises are priced from $1,610 per person, based on double occupancy.
The Elbe, Havel and Moldau Rivers and the cities of Berlin, Dresden, Prague and Potsdam are on the cruise itineraries of the Katharina von Bora and the Frederic Chopin on weekly sailings between Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, and Prague, while the Dresden makes it way along the Elbe River between Dresden and Hamburg. Seven-night cruise fares start at $1,625.
The Cezanne and Princesse de Provence sail along the Seine, roundtrip from Paris and between Paris and Rouen, and the Rhone and the Saone, roundtrip from Lyon and between Lyon and Arles. Fares start at $1,545.
Among the 110-passenger Heidelberg’s itineraries are seven-night cruises roundtrip from the capital city of Amsterdam to large and small Dutch cities — Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Middleberg and the historic Flemish cities of Ghent, Antwerp and Volendam in Belgium. Other offerings include four-night sailings between Dusseldorf and Basel, a six-night cruise from Dusseldorf to Amsterdam and seven-night itineraries between Amsterdam and Trier, Trier and Basel, Basel and Cologne, and Cologne and Trier. Fares start at $1,615.
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