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Danube cruises

UNIWORLD Announces Super Ship SS Maria Theresa

2014-05-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

S.S. Maria Theresa

UNIWORLD Boutique River Cruise Collection has announced they will launch a new Super Ship, the SS Maria Theresa, in the Spring of 2015.

Tags: cruise, cruise ships, Danube cruises, Danube River, River Cruises, river tours, ships

Danube-Black Sea Canal Sees Tourist Cruises

2013-03-27 by Phil Butler

Danube – Black Sea Canal

A bit of interesting and very positive news form Romania today tells of the Danube-Black Sea canal finally being put to the use for which it was designed some decades ago. A collaboration between the National Office of Navigation Canals, the Council of Constanta judet (jurisdiction), Constanta’s City Hall and the Association for the Promotion and Development of Tourism on the Danube Delta Coast, have collectively organized touristic cruises to take advantage of this fascinating waterway.

Tags: Black Sea canal, Constanta cruises, Danube Canal, Danube cruises, Romania travel, Romanian history, Stalin

The Best Europe You’ll Ever See: Courtesy the Blue Danube

2013-01-19 by Phil Butler

Avalon Panorama Sky Deck

Winter has set in for everyone in the Northern Hemisphere on Mother Earth. And for the traveler, visions of the next great journey away from inherent cabin fever are surely arising now. Discover Europe! Your sixth travel sense may be saying, and what better way than traversing most of it, in comfort, and style. Is this a sales pitch? Well no, we don’t work for Avalon Waterways, we just know travel. Read on, this is good stuff.

Tags: Amsterdam, Avalon Waterways, Bratislava, Budapest, Cologne travel, Danube cruises, Europe cruises, Europe travel, Hungary Travel, River Cruises, Slovakia, Vienna

Austrian’s Flock to Romania in 2012

2013-01-16 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Novy bridge in Bratislava - Slovakia

An interesting travel statistic for the Romanian tourism sector for 2012. It turns out some 218,000 Austrians visited Romania last year, a 14% increase over the previous numbers. The Austrian travelers also spent upwards of €52 million in the country, this according to Romania Insider.

Tags: Austria, Bucharest tourism, Danube cruises, Danube excursions, Hungary, Romania tours, Romania travel, Romanian tourism, slovenia

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