River Cruise Ship Destinations

Here at Plenty of Sunshine Travel, we offer amazing River Cruise packages, that are designed with you in mind.
River cruises are extremely popular! Providing you with the opportunity to visit multiple destinations on a single vacation.
Unpack once and explore many different countries! In fact, you don’t have to unpack, on some of the River Cruise lines, a Butler can unpack for you!
A river cruise is an incredible value for you and your travel partners!
There are so many items included in your River Cruise.

WiFi is included – on an ocean sailing, you can pay up to $15-$20 a day for this!
Premium wines and some specialty cocktails are also included in the base River Cruise price, no extra charges.
All of your tips are included as well.
The other thing you get which an amazing value is you get a shore excursion at each and every port of call! That is such a great thing! On an ocean cruise, some of the shore excursions are over $100 per person!
Also on some of the cruise lines, you get flight included — in business class no less.

So look at the whole price and see the value in what you are getting for your vacation dollar.


Money well spent!

Choose from my wide selection of cruise options and get ready to have the time of your life!

The first River Cruise line I would like to mention is Crystal.

Crystal has both Ocean and River cruises, but we are going to focus on the River cruises for this page.

Crystal has quite a few destinations, they sail to the Danube, Rhine, Main and also the Moselle, and many other locations.

Here is a short video that shows the Crystal difference!

As you saw in the video Crystal is elegance, you will be treated like Royalty!
Crystal is an amazing choice for your River Cruise.
Below is a sample itinerary, so you can see the ports of call and where you will cruising to.

Crystal Itinerary

The legendary Rhine Cruise! You can go from either Amsterdam to Basel or Basel to Amsterdam

With so many shore excursions to choose from, you will get the chance to explore new countries and see amazing new things!
With Crystals extended Land & sea packages, you can add a hotel stay before or after your river cruise.
This way you get to explore the area even more. Your transfers are typically included, so you don’t need to worry about getting to the ship on time or navigating local transportation.

The next River cruise site I would like to show you is AmaWaterways.

Here is a video that shows an overview of AmaWaterways.

Taking an AmaWaterways cruise is one of the best ways to see European culture, you can also go to the Asian river cruises, or Africa river cruises and see the world in luxury and comfort. One of the things I love about the Africa River cruises is that when you go on an African safari land tour, they can’t 100% guarantee that you are going to see the majestic animals. So you spend so much money and you don’t have a promise that you will see the animals. But, with a river cruise, you will! You are cruising right down their watering hole. The animals have to come! In fact, many of the pictures in their brochures are taken by their clients. So, you will 100% see the animals you desire to see.

Game Viewing on the Chobe
Game Viewing on the Chobe

​You can’t get much closer than that!

The other itinerary that I want to highlight that is just amazing on Amawaterways is their Christmas market cruise! This goes to such amazing places as Basel Switzerland, Cologne Germany, Neinburg Germany and Riquewihr France. Just to name a few places and they stop at all the Christmas markets in each area. The items at these markets are all handmade. Nothing mass manufactured and they are high in the local culture. Having my heritage from Austria and having a German background this is an amazing cruise for me. I could do all my Christmas shopping in one cruise!

Amawaterways Christmas Market cruise
Riquewihr, France
Amawaterways Christmas Market Cruise
Cologne, Germany
Amawaterways Christmas Market Cruise
Cologne, Germany
Amawaterways Christmas Market Cruise
Riquewihr, France
Amawaterways Christmas Market River Cruise
In Nuremberg, Germany looking at Nutcrackers

These cruises run from November to the last week of December and they do sell out. So, we need to get you booked at least a year in advance. But, the anticipation is worth it!

Amawaterways Christmas Market River Cruise
Basel, Switzerland

Since Amawaterways also offers you a bicycle at each and every port, you can explore on your own if you don’t want to do your included shore excursion at every port.

Amawaterways River Cruise
Explore on your own with the complimentary bicycles
Amawaterways River Cruise
Many to choose from

Here is a link that will tell you more about Amawaterways.

I do also recommend Viking Cruise Line and also Scenic Cruises and Emerald Waterways and many others.
Let’s connect so we can discuss which is the best option for you!