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Europe
Sat 28 Dec - Sat 04 Jan 2025

New Year's Eve Cruise on the Rhine

Сruise

Treat yourself to a memorable year-end celebration with a special highlight: an exciting welcome to the New Year will be heralded on board.

Ring in the New Year in style in the river city of Basel, which beckons a grandiose firework display above the Rhine. Be there and enjoy the atmosphere when all the church bells in the city ring in the New Year. View the spectacular fireworks illuminating the sky from the Sun Deck. Next day, relax or explore the old town complete with a bright red Rathaus (Town Hall) building.

Cruise Region : Europe
Company : Lueftner Cruises
Ship : AMADEUS Imperial
Journey Start : Sat 28 Dec 2024
Journey End : Sat 04 Jan 2025
Count Nights : 7 nights

Schedule

Day Port Date Arrival Departure
1 Cologne / Germany Sat 28 Dec
2 Mainz / Germany Sun 29 Dec
3 Strasbourg / France Mon 30 Dec
4 Basel / Switzerland Tue 31 Dec
5 Basel / Switzerland Wed 01 Jan
6 Speyer / Germany Thu 02 Jan
6 Mannheim / Germany Thu 02 Jan
7 Rüdesheim / Germany Fri 03 Jan
7 Koblenz / Germany Fri 03 Jan
8 Cologne / Germany Sat 04 Jan

Travel Terms & Conditions

PREAMBLE

These travel conditions are issued in the name of the carrier, Lüftner Cruises GmbH / A-6020 Innsbruck, for the travel programs included in this brochure. In the following, this is referred to as “the carrier”. The transportation of passengers and baggage on any of the vessels offered is governed solely by the Terms and Conditions of the Passenger Ticket Contract (available on request).

PAYMENT POLICY

A deposit of 10% per person is required to secure a confirmed reservation. When more than one cruise is booked, deposit and payment policies apply per cruise. The balance is due for payment no later than 20 days prior to departure, despite no further request for payment being made. All reservations are subject to cancellation if payments are not received by the due date, and in such a case the carrier is entitled to cancel the reservation/s in accordance with the cancellation fees specified in these terms and conditions. Upon full payment by the participant(s) of the amount specified in the invoice, the carrier agrees to arrange for the provision of the services as described in this brochure. Your payment or acceptance of a ticket constitutes your agreement to the terms and conditions of travel.

CANCELLATION POLICY

In cases of cancellation the carrier has the right to demand the following cancellation fees, calculated as a percentage of the travel price and dependent on the number of days left until the planned departure date:

 

Days Before Departure

121 days and more    10%
120 – 90 days    15%
89 – 60 days    35%
59 – 30 days    50%
29 – 15 days    80%
14 – 1 day(s)    85%
on departure day    90%
Cancellations must be made in writing. Cancellation invoices are due for payment as soon as they are received


Suites & Staterooms

Luxury accommodation in an outside river-view stateroom of your choice: Spacious Mozart Suites with a walk-out balcony, stateroom cabins on Mozart and Strauss Decks with drop-down Panorama Retractable Windows offering a wide-open view (except Amadeus Brilliant)
Individual climate control and in-room safe  
Choice of bed configuration in all categories (double or twin bedding)
Gourmet Dining

Gourmet dining featuring breakfast, multi-course lunches and dinners with menu choices (including vegetarian options), afternoon tea and late-night snack
Free-flowing hand-selected wines from the best wine regions of Europe served with dinner on board 
Coffee and tea available 24 hours a day in the Amadeus Club
Welcome and Farewell Cocktail Reception, Welcome Dinner and Captain’s Gala Dinner 
Voyage of Discovery

Personalized service of an experienced, multilingual AMADEUS Cruise Director 
AMADEUS digital audio system for all guided excursions 
Variety of enriching onboard programs, including fascinating lectures, cooking demonstrations, local cultural performances, and music by our onboard musicians 
Complimentary use of onboard bicycles for independent exploration 
Onboard fitness center open 24 hours a day
All port taxes, embarkation, disembarkation and lock fees included in your cruise fare 

Detailed cruise program
  • Day 1:

    Cologne / Germany

    Cologne is the largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and its 1 million+ (2016) inhabitants make it the fourth most populous city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. The largest city on the Rhine, it is also the most populous city both of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, which is Germany's largest and one of Europe's major metropolitan areas, and of the Rhineland. Centred on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia's capital of Düsseldorf and 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Bonn. It is the largest city in the Central Franconian and Ripuarian dialect areas.

    The city's famous Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. There are many institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), one of Europe's oldest and largest universities, the Technical University of Cologne (Technische Hochschule Köln), Germany's largest university of applied sciences, and the German Sport University Cologne (Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln), Germany's only sport university. Cologne Bonn Airport (Flughafen Köln/Bonn) is Germany's seventh-largest airport and lies in the southeast of the city. The main airport for the Rhine-Ruhr region is Düsseldorf Airport.

  • Day 2:

    Mainz / Germany

  • Day 3:

    Strasbourg / France

  • Day 4:

    Basel / Switzerland

    Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.

    Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. As of 2016, the Swiss Basel agglomeration was the third largest in Switzerland with a population of 541,000[4] in 74 municipalities in Switzerland (municipal count as of 2018). The initiative Trinational Eurodistrict Basel (TEB) of 62 suburban communes including municipalities in neighboring countries, counted 829,000 inhabitants in 2007.

    The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.

  • Day 5:

    Basel / Switzerland

    Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.

    Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. As of 2016, the Swiss Basel agglomeration was the third largest in Switzerland with a population of 541,000[4] in 74 municipalities in Switzerland (municipal count as of 2018). The initiative Trinational Eurodistrict Basel (TEB) of 62 suburban communes including municipalities in neighboring countries, counted 829,000 inhabitants in 2007.

    The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.

  • Day 6:

    Speyer / Germany

  • Day 6:

    Mannheim / Germany

  • Day 7:

    Rüdesheim / Germany

  • Day 7:

    Koblenz / Germany

  • Day 8:

    Cologne / Germany

    Cologne is the largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and its 1 million+ (2016) inhabitants make it the fourth most populous city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. The largest city on the Rhine, it is also the most populous city both of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, which is Germany's largest and one of Europe's major metropolitan areas, and of the Rhineland. Centred on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia's capital of Düsseldorf and 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Bonn. It is the largest city in the Central Franconian and Ripuarian dialect areas.

    The city's famous Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. There are many institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), one of Europe's oldest and largest universities, the Technical University of Cologne (Technische Hochschule Köln), Germany's largest university of applied sciences, and the German Sport University Cologne (Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln), Germany's only sport university. Cologne Bonn Airport (Flughafen Köln/Bonn) is Germany's seventh-largest airport and lies in the southeast of the city. The main airport for the Rhine-Ruhr region is Düsseldorf Airport.

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