Horticultural festival brings floral theme to 2011 Rhine river cruising

Dec. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- Award-winning river cruise line AMAWATERWAYS is offering its guests the chance to visit one of the world’s most spectacular flower shows on seven of its Rhine cruises next summer.

Germany’s Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA 2011) in Koblenz, one of the most popular Rhine ports, runs from April 15 to October 16. The show takes place every two years and is a major event in Europe’s horticultural calendar, with more than two million visitors expected.
Over the duration of the 2011 show, seven AMAWATERWAYS itineraries will include Koblenz, with a chance to spend the day wandering through around hundreds of stunning landscape garden displays, which will take over the whole town, normally better known for its wood-timbered houses and many wine taverns.

Dazzling displays of exotic gardens will be created at the Kurfürstliches Schloss (Electoral Palace) and the Blumenhof (Flower Garden) at Deutsches Eck in Koblenz itself, but the most dramatic exhibits will be at the Ehrenbreitstein Castle, perched high on a hilltop on the opposite bank, with sweeping views down over the Rhine and Moselle. Lavish exhibitions and romantic gardens will turn the castle’s plateau into a floral paradise, with themes including nature and the environment and even wine-growing.  As an added bonus, large parts of the Prussian fortress have been opened to the public for the first time. A brand new cable car across the Rhine has been constructed specially for the event, offering breathtaking views of the surrounding hills and vineyards.

Entry to the show will be included as one of a range of complimentary excursions on the seven AMAWATERWAYS cruises that call throughout the summer.

The itineraries are:

Vineyards of the Rhine and Moselle (nine departures)
Europe’s Rivers and Castles (10 departures)
Magnificent Europe (five departures)
Portraits of Europe (one departure)
Enchanting Rhine (15 departures)
Ultimate River Cruise (11 departures)
European Treasures (three departures)

From £1,569pp, for the seven-night Enchanting Rhine cruise from Amsterdam to Basel, excluding flights. Contact AMAWATERWAYS on 0808 223 5009, http://www.amawaterways.co.uk.

About AMAWATERWAYS

AMAWATERWAYS has redefined European river cruising since its founding in 2002 by river cruise industry pioneer, Rudi Schreiner, cruise industry executive Kristin Karst, and former owner of Brendan Worldwide Vacations, Jimmy Murphy. In 2009, two brand-new 148-passenger vessels, MS AMALYRA and MS AMADOLCE, joined the luxurious AMAWATERWAYS fleet in Europe, which consists of the MS AMACELLO and MS AMADANTE (2008), MS AMALEGRO (2007) and MS AMADAGIO (2006). Each of these ‘AMA’ ships includes luxurious balcony cabins, open seating dining, free-flowing wine with dinner, shore excursions, free internet in every cabin and free WiFi in the lounges, and use of a fleet of bicycles carried on board.

AMAWATERWAYS also offers popular itineraries on the Rhône in France, Volga-Baltic waterways in Russia and the Mekong in Asia, also including shore excursions and drinks with dinner.

Contact AMAWATERWAYS on 0808 223 5009, http://www.amawaterways.co.uk

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UK PR contact: UK PR Contact:  Mary Stuart-Miller, 01403 738844, mary@mstuart-miller.co.uk