Travel Articles: Danube River

There's nothing quite as special as spending a week exploring the Danube River with your father!

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Top things to see and do in Budapest include visiting Buda Castle, Matthias Church, Fisherman’s Bastion, Heroes Square, and St. Stephen’s Basilica. Elsewhere in the city, Turkish baths and districts filled with restaurants and bars welcome visitors from all over the world.

Bratislava is a treasure of historic sites that give a refreshing perspective on the roots of the present-day culture of the region. For more information about Danube river cruises that include Bratislava as a port of call and how Adventure Life can help arrange a trip based around your interests, contact a member of our team.

Top things to see and do in Budapest include visiting Buda Castle, Matthias Church, Fisherman’s Bastion, Heroes Square, and St. Stephen’s Basilica. Elsewhere in the city, Turkish baths and districts filled with restaurants and bars welcome visitors from all over the world.

A Danube River cruise packing list during the months of May through September starts with essentials like lightweight trousers, shorts, comfortable walking shoes, a sweater for cooler days, a combination of short and long sleeve shirts to layer, and one set of semi-formal clothes for specialty dinners.

The Main River of southern Germany connects the Danube River to the east with the Rhine River to the northwest. As the Rhine?s largest tributary and the primary artery between two of Europe?s longest rivers, cruises that include the Main River are usually a bit longer - between 7 days and three weeks, crossing central Europe.

Learn about the best time to visit Austria, the best time to cruise the Danube River, and about some of the activities that are preferred during the respective seasons.

The bustling town of Passau, Germany straddles the Danube River where it meets the Inn and Ilz Rivers on the border of Austria, and is home to around 50,000 residents. Known for its baroque old town, Passau features a number of monuments, museums, and historical sites that make this charming city a staple part of any Danube River cruise. Passau also serves as the port of embarkation or departure for many European river cruises.

European river cruises can be an amazing experience for families with members of all ages, and if you’re traveling with minors (under the age of 18), a cruise can be a fantastic way to engage them in history and culture as they see their textbooks come to life in the form of castles, museums, battlegrounds of ancient and modern wars, ruins, and so much more.

From the comfort of modern and elegant river vessels, travelers no longer have to worry about packing and unpacking their suitcases at every hotel, long haul train and bus rides between destinations, or uncertainty about where they’ll have their next meal - Adventure Life’s hand-picked European River cruises offer all-inclusive experiences along the most interesting waterways of Europe.

The season for Danube River cruises runs from late February through the Christmas market season, but there are distinct seasons that each have their own unique benefits and drawbacks.

The upper and lower Danube Rivers have extremely different cuisines, cultures, sights, and people. Learn about the differences in this article!

This article goes in to depth about the top cruise ports along the Danube River and what there is to do in each respective city.

This article will go into some depth about the consequences of trip length, the various destinations that it's possible to visit, and will help you choose the ideal boat and experince that fits your needs.

As any veteran river cruiser will tell you, which riverboat you choose makes all the difference. With the recent surge in the popularity of European river cruises, competition between the main cruise operators has really improved the quality of the itineraries and river ships across the board, so there aren’t any bad options - it just depends on what you’re looking for on your Europe river cruise.

An experience cruising from Bavaria to Budapest along the Danube visiting traditional Christmas Markets.

Journey through Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, and Hungary to experience the rich history and warm hospitality in this region. We experienced the culture up close through the old buildings and ruins that we toured. We ate wonderful food paired with wine while we sailed through the Iron Gates on the Danube River.

There were so many incredible moments and great experiences during our AmaWaterways cruise. Being my second river cruise (check out my Seine River cruising experience in my other blogs) I was looking forward to a week of exploring and enjoying Europe from a sophisticated river cruise. Unlike my past experience however the Danube ships are larger …

Walking onto the Amalea during the holiday season is walking into a winter wonderland. Strings of lights and garland line the staircases and billow in the windows. Each cabin door is decorated with a wreath and the dining room has lovely holiday lamps with blowing snow and winter scenes.

During the first day onboard, travelers were invited to …

We arrived in Nuremberg and headed to the river cruise port. Due to an unusually hot summer and exceptionally low water levels, our ship was not able to meet us in Nuremberg. We met at the port and transferred by bus two hours to Vilshofen. We had been alerted to this likely itinerary change last week and, after reading the proposed itinerary …

We spent two days in Hungary, but I could easily spend two months. The country offers an incredible mix of awe inspiring architecture, distinctive cuisine, warm people, haunting music, and plenty of activities.

We started in Pecs, a university town that also has a nice walking area downtown. We visited the well preserved frescoes of early …

Onboard the Amaserena we cruised between the Carpathian and Bulgarian mountains north to Budapest. Along the way, we saw the Roman Tablet, a stone carving celebrating the first Roman road in the area and the more modern statue of Decebalus, a huge carved face of this respected ancient Dacian king in Romania.

We also cruised through the colossal …