May 16, 2008
October-December is high season for river cruises of the Danube. Yet prices are refreshingly modest at that time
Most big cruise ships have left the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Aegean by the time mid-autumn arrives. But the smaller, 140-passenger riverboats that sail the Danube are especially active at that time. Part of the reason are the colorful "Christmas markets" that spring up at river-towns starting in November and reaching their crescendo in December.
Go to Gate 1 Travel (www.gate1travel.com), click on river cruises, and study the offerings offered along the Danube, usually from Nuremberg to Budapest, passing through Vienna on the way. These are cultural adventures that will introduce you to a town-a-day, which you tour at your leisure, returning in late afternoon for dinner, entertainment, and your comfortable stateroom (more spacious and well-equipped than on the average ocean cruise ship). Yet many of the prices of these 12-day river cruises are as low as $1,499, including round-trip air from New York to and from the ports of embarkation and disembarkation. Considering the high quality of all arrangements, and the fact that airfare alone is worth at least $600 or $700 at that time, these autumn river trips are among the great bargains of travel.
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Go to Gate 1 Travel (www.gate1travel.com), click on river cruises, and study the offerings offered along the Danube, usually from Nuremberg to Budapest, passing through Vienna on the way. These are cultural adventures that will introduce you to a town-a-day, which you tour at your leisure, returning in late afternoon for dinner, entertainment, and your comfortable stateroom (more spacious and well-equipped than on the average ocean cruise ship). Yet many of the prices of these 12-day river cruises are as low as $1,499, including round-trip air from New York to and from the ports of embarkation and disembarkation. Considering the high quality of all arrangements, and the fact that airfare alone is worth at least $600 or $700 at that time, these autumn river trips are among the great bargains of travel.
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