Two new river cruise itineraries that spotlight high locations in Holland and Belgium are on the horizon at Adventures by Disney, the subsidiary of The Walt Disney Firm that provides river voyages across the globe. The brand new departures are scheduled for 2025, and are geared to the household journey market.
Historical past, Tradition, and Tulips Are Focus of New Sailings
Outdated World attraction takes middle stage in two new river cruise sailings operated by Adventures by Disney, together with one which options the cities and villages of Holland and Belgium, and one other that explores the area’s world-renowned tulip gardens.
All voyages are seven nights and can be held aboard a ship chartered from AmaWaterways, a highly-regarded, luxury-level river cruise operator. Adventures by Disney and AmaWaterways have partnered to supply river cruises for greater than 15 years.
Journey Guides, all educated by Disney, will accompany every departure, offering high-level customer support and informative storytelling about every vacation spot.
4 departures are supplied on the “Discovering Holland and Belgium Tour,” all roundtrip from Amsterdam on June 28, July 26, September 6, and December 20, 2025. Cruisers will go to Utrecht, Rotterdam, Kinderdijk, and Gouda, Netherlands, and Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, and Antwerp, Belgium.
Actions onshore will function excursions of sights such because the Utrecht Museum Speelklok and Fort de Haar. Cruisers additionally will get pleasure from seeing the area’s iconic windmills, a few of which date from the 1700s, museums that includes the Dutch masters’ artwork and structure, and viewing the Royal Delft pottery that helped to make the area well-known.
Energetic excursions will embody bike driving and strolling excursions. One of many departures can be restricted to adults solely. The “Tulip Tour” has only one departure, on April 13, 2025, within the prime blooming season.
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After the departure from Amsterdam, the itinerary contains Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium, plus Hoorn, Middelburg, Rotterdam, Kinderdijk, and Schoonhoven, Netherlands.
Highlighted shore excursions embody visits to the famend Keukenhof gardens, with its 7 million flowering bulbs, the huge tulip farms of Hoorn, and the Floralia Flower Present, the favored flower exhibition held yearly in Brussels, Belgium.
Itineraries to Open For Bookings in Mid-January
Gross sales for the entire new itinerary departures will open on January 16, 2024, for earlier Adventures by Disney Company who’ve traveled on three or extra Adventures; January 17 for all earlier Adventures by Disney visitors; January 18 for Disney Trip Membership Members, Disney Cruise Line Castaway Membership Members, and Golden Oak Members; and January 19 for most people.
Adventures by Disney has not disclosed the title of the ship it would constitution for the brand new itineraries; AmaWaterways operates a fleet of greater than two dozen ships.
Cruisers who want to sail aboard a Disney river voyage sooner, in 2024, have a alternative of twenty-two cruise itineraries in Europe, supplied on the Rhine, Danube, and Seine rivers. A Rhine River cruise departing on August 1, 2024 from Basel, Switzerland, and concluding in Amsterdam, visits common locations corresponding to Strasbourg, France; and Rudesheim and Cologne, Germany.
Adventures by Disney is a separate unit from Disney Cruise Line, which operates a fleet of 5 ocean-going ships. A sixth, Disney Treasure, is beneath building in Germany and attributable to launch in December 2024.
