Late offers from AMAwaterways

Well, here dear World of Cruising magazine readers are some top river cruise offers  from AmaWaterways

SAVE £1340pp

10^th July, RAIL & SAIL : Paris & Normandy by luxury river cruiser – with £1340pp saving + free Eurostar

AmaWaterways are offering a saving of £1340pp, free Eurostar travel and inclusive excursions to visit the beaches and landmarks associated with the D-Day landings, as part of a luxury 7 night river cruise embarking in Paris on 10^th July 2014. The sailing, which now costs from £1699pp includes free Eurostar travel from London, transfers, breakfast, lunch and dinner on board with free flowing wine, beer & soft drinks with lunch and dinner, daily excursions and tours, free wi-fi, complimentary use of on board bicycles. Regional flights also available. Contact AmaWaterways on 0808 256 8422, www.amawaterways.co.uk

SAVE £900pp

15^th July 2014, 7 night Douro cruise saving £900pp – with free flights from London and Birmingham

Luxury river cruise operator AmaWaterways has trimmed the cost of a 7 night cruise along Portugal’s Douro river by £900 per person. Departing in Porto on 15^th July 2014 the cruise now costs from £1479pp (£1599 from Birmingham), including a scenic 7 night voyage down the Douro river, free flights and transfers, breakfast, lunch and dinner on board with free flowing wine, port wine, beer & soft drinks with lunch and dinner, daily excursions and tours, free wi-fi. Cruise only costs from £1199pp. Contact AmaWaterways on 0808 256 8422, www.amawaterways.co.uk

SAVE £1250pp

17^th July 2014, Provence river cruise, with free flights and £1250pp saving

Save £1250pp off a 7 night cruise from Arles to Lyon, departing on 17^th July 2014, including free flights, transfers and daily guided tours and excursions that include the chateaux, towns and vineyards that accompany the constantly changing riverside vista; participate in a ghost walk through the town of Viviers, join a Van Gogh tour in Arles or a wine tasting in Provence. The cruise price of £1849pp includes free flights from London, transfers, breakfast, lunch and dinner on board with free flowing wine, beer & soft drinks with lunch and dinner, daily excursions and tours, free wi-fi, complimentary use of on board bicycles.  Regional flights and Eurostar also available. Cruise only from £1499pp. Contact AmaWaterways on 0808 256 8422, www.amawaterways.co.uk

SAVE £995pp

21^st July 2014, 7 night Legendary Danube cruise, saving £915pp

Save £915pp off a week long luxury river cruise along the Danube from Nuremberg to Budapest, visiting Linz, Passau, Melk, Vienna and Budapest, watching the world pass by from panoramic windows and taking part in daily complimentary tours and excursions. The price of £1699pp includes flights from London, transfers, breakfast, lunch and dinner on board with free flowing wine, beer & soft drinks with lunch and dinner, daily excursions and tours, free wi-fi, complimentary use of on board bicycles. Cruise only from £1299. Contact AmaWaterways on 0808 256 8422, www.amawaterways.co.uk

SAVE £650pp

27^th October 2014, Lower Danube cruise with free flights and £650pp saving

Cruise the Lower Danube, from Budapest to Rousse, travelling through Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and along the Romanian / Bulgarian border to Bucharest. AmaWaterways is offering a £650pp saving off their 7 night `Black Sea Discovery’ cruise, embarking on 27<sup>th</sup> October 2014 on board their highly acclaimed luxury cruise ship `AmaCerto’. The price of £1559pp (was £2209pp, saving £650pp) includes free flights from London, transfers, breakfast, lunch and dinner on board with free flowing wine, beer & soft drinks with lunch and dinner, daily excursions and tours, free wi-fi, complimentary use of on board bicycles.   Contact AmaWaterways on 0808 256 8422, www.amawaterways.co.uk

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Seabourn Conversations to host prominent authorities on innovation and industry

Steve Wozniak and Lord Digby Jones

New highly-acclaimed speakers added to onboard enrichment programme

Seabourn is introducing two prominent authorities on innovation and industry over the year ahead for “Seabourn Conversations,” the cruise line’s onboard guest enrichment and entertainment programme. Sharing their insights and interests onboard Seabourn Odyssey will be Steve Wozniak, co-founder (with the late Steve Jobs) of Apple Computer Inc., and Lord Digby Jones, former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Minister of State for UK Trade and Investment.

Steve Wozniak will be on board Seabourn Odyssey’s December 21, 2014 voyage and Lord Jones on Seabourn Odyssey’s March 23, 2015 cruise.

A list of currently scheduled “Seabourn Conversations” guest speakers can be viewed here.

The ships offer spacious suites, most with verandas; superb dining in a choice of venues; open bars throughout the ship; fine wines served at lunch and dinner; award-winning personalised service and a relaxed, sociable atmosphere. 

For more information or to book call 0843 373 2000 or visit www.seabourn.co.uk 

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Saga’s scrumdiddlyumptious confection of delights for chocoholics

 All-inclusive cruise to the Canaries, Cape Verde and West Africa

• Tips on decorating cakes from sugarcraft expert Frances McNaughton
• Chocolate dessert every night & a spectacular chocolate afternoon tea
• Learn about wine & food matching with Master of Wine Conal Gregory

Saga Pearl II sails into a sea of chocolate with chocolatier Mark Tilling leading the way on the 24-night Food and Wine themed Canaries and Cape Verde cruise on November 14, 2014.

The chocolatier, whose mouth-watering creations have earned him a worldwide reputation, will be joined by sugarcraft tutor Frances McNaughton who will be demonstrating the art of cake decorating. Frances is a renowned sugarcraft expert who has created sugarcraft for Hollywood films such as Chocolat, Notting Hill, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Sweet-toothed guests can also look forward to a daily afternoon tea, including the ‘chocolate spectacular tea’ complete with chocolate fountain. There are also hands-on sessions such as sugarcraft and chocolate truffle making workshops with our chocolatiers on board, plus lots of chocolate tastings!

Every night the dessert menu will include a chocolate treat and if guests want to learn about which dessert wines to wash down a confection of treats, Master of Wine Conal Gregory will be on board to offer wine and food matching sessions.

Guests on this no-fly cruise from Southampton will also have the chance to join Saga Pearl II’s chefs in the galley to experience life in a professional kitchen.

For those who can drag themselves away from the sweet temptations, there will be numerous opportunities to explore ashore including the  volcanoes of the Canaries and the rugged landscape of the Cape Verde archipelago before sailing 300 miles to Africa’s westernmost city of Dakar.

24 nights from £3,548, departing from Southampton on November 14, 2014
All-inclusive price: VIP door-to-door service to and from Dover, all meals and drinks (selected wines at lunch and dinner, all soft drinks, Saga house-branded spirits and cocktails, draught beer and lager), afternoon tea, 24-hour room service, welcome cocktail party, entertainment and activities, all gratuities, porterage and travel insurance and cancellation cover.

Ports of call: Santa Cruz, La Palma; San Sebastian, La Gomera; Porte Grande, Cape Verde; Porto Verde, Cape Verde; Porto Praia, Cape Verde; Banjul, Gambia; Dakar, Senegal; Santa Cruz, Tenerife; Puerto de la Estaca, El Hierra; Arrecife, Lanzarote; El Ferrol, Spain.

For details call free on 0800 056 8986 or visit saga.co.uk/cruises

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Cool down with a Baked Alaska

Yesterday was the UK’s hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures climbing to the low 80s in the south east. It’s likely to be just as hot today, so how about cooling down with that cruise ship favourite, a Baked Alaska?

We can’t provide the parade of smiling waiters, or even the fireworks, but thanks to our friends at Cruise & Maritime Voyages, we can give you the recipe. The quantities here will make one almost as big as Alaska, so better get some friends round for a party.

Ingredients: 

Two vanilla sponge cakes, Grand Marnier and sugar syrup as required,  five litres each of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate ice cream. 2 litres of egg white, 2 kg of sugar and 150 grams of glucose.

Method: 

Soak the vanilla sponge with Grand Marnier and sugar syrup; layer the three types of Ice cream together like a sandwich and cover with the sponge. Store in a freezer.

Boil the sugar and glucose with water until the “soft ball” stage. Whisk the egg white until it is stiff and forms peaks and then pour in the hot sugar syrup to create Italian meringue. Cover the sponge and ice cream sandwich with the meringue and burn with a blowtorch until light gold in colour. Add indoor fireworks and serve.

Enjoy, and keep cool!

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Day five with Hurtigruten in Greenland

Welcome to Uummannaq with different kinds of tours, excursions  today etc.  Some of us went to the museum to listen to a local who told us all about life here. There are some fantastic pictures taken about 150 years ago outside on the fence where you can really get a feel for life in the town then.

The Church is the only one made out of rocks still being used in Greenland and is very beautiful.  Hurtigruten had organised a boat tour to the place where the famous Qilakitsoq mummies were found. A big group of us joined the hike to Santa’s hut to see if he was home and some went out on a helicopter. I investigated the town a bit more and loved the surviving turf houses and blubber house.

In the evening we anchored off Ukkusissat  a small settlement of some 60 souls and some of them came on board for singing and dancing on Deck 7. Afterwards we went ashore and spent some time with them and had a great chat with the children and a kick about!

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CroisiEurope announces World War 1 cruises

www.croisieurope.co.uk, has announced details of two brand new 2015 itineraries that have been created specifically to honour the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

·         A seven-day cruise between Ostend and Lille visiting Comines, Kortrijk and Bruges. Highlights include a trip to Diksmuide, the scene of bloody confrontations during WW1, including a visit to the Trench of Death – one of the most dangerous Belgian positions on the Western Front; a stop at the German cemetery of Vaslo and a visit to Europe’s largest peace memorial, the 84-metre-high Yser Tower; a day in Kortrijk including a visit to the British War Cemetery in Tyne Cot, the largest of its kind in continental Europe; a visit to the Passchendaele Museum and the Flanders Fields Museum;  a ‘Last Post’ ceremony representing the final  farewell to the dead; a trip to Poperingen, one of the only towns not occupied by the Germans; the military cemetery and hospital at Lijssenthoek; Arras and Wellington Quarry – an enormous underground network created to keep the troops together during the build up to the Allied offensive. 

The cruise on the MS Victor Hugo departs 10^th September 2015 with the reverse itinerary departing 16^th September 2015. Prices start from £951 per person including all onboard meals, complimentary beer and wine at lunch and dinner as well as open bar throughout the voyage (not including Champagne, special wines or fine brandies), all excursions, onboard entertainment and port taxes.

·         A seven-day cruise along the Marne Canal from Paris to Chalons-en-Champagne onboard the 24-guest MS Raymonde visiting Lagny-Sur-Marne, Meux, Saint Jean Les Deux Jumeaux, Chateau Thierry, Dormans and Epernay. Highlights include the Battlefields of the Marne; the Museum of the Great War with over 50,000 objects and documents to peruse; the Remembrance Museum of Belleau; the Aisne-Marne Cemetery where 2,289 soldiers who fell during fighting in the summer of 1918 are buried; Fort Douaumont, the largest of 19 defensive forts protecting the city of Verdun which was abandoned by the French in 1915; Douaumont Ossuary where the bodies of 130,000 unidentified soldiers from each side are at rest together; and a visit to the Tranchée des Baïonnettes (Bayonet Trench), a monument financed by the American George Rand in honour of the 137^th Infantry Regiment. Also included is a tour of the Champagne Tourist Route and a guided tour of Paris.

There are three departures on 28^th May, 8^th July and 19^th September 2015 with prices from £1,653 per person including all onboard meals, complimentary beer and wine at lunch and dinner as well as open bar throughout the voyage (not including Champagne, special wines or fine brandies), all excursions, onboard entertainment and port taxes.   020 8328 1281 or visit www.croisieurope.co.uk

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Cunard’s Spectacular Summer Sale, July 1-31, 2014

Range of offers includes
·        Up to $1,170pp on board spending money plus other benefits on Mediterranean, Fly-Med, Transatlantic, Atlantic Islands, short breaks
·        Free long haul flights with 27-75 night Winter exotic cruises with the Cunard Fare
·        Or up to 35% off on selected departures with Early Savers

Here comes Summer and some great opportunities to make the sunshine last right through to next year...Throughout the month of July, Cunard's Summer Sale will include thousands of holidays departing from 1 September 2014 to 30 June 2015 with a choice of compelling offers aboard Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.

Book a Holiday at the Cunard Fare and benefits include up to $1,170pp free additional on board spending money, or complimentary long-haul flights worth up to £710 pp on exotic cruises to or from Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Los Angeles or San Francisco.  

In addition, Early Saver fares are being released for selected sailings starting from 5 Sept 2014 up to the end of June 2015 with savings of up to 35% off fares for balcony, outside and inside accommodation on the more imminent departures.

Cunard's Summer Sale will run from 1-31 July 2014 and includes a spectrum of Autumn 2014/Winter 2015 departures, Winter/Spring 2015 exotic cruises and Spring 2015 sailings.
·        Bookings made in the month of July 2014 at the Cunard Fare qualify up to $1,170pp complimentary on board spending money*.   Plus standard Cunard Fare benefits including car parking at the airport or dock, or return coach travel to Southampton or additional on board spending money.  During the month of July, the Early Saver Fare** offers up to 15% off selected departures between 3 May and 30 June 2015.  www.cunard.co.uk

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