Maximize your Christmas experience by embarking at the height of the holiday market season with daily or near-daily visits to Christmas Markets.
Get "just a taste" of the holidays in mid-November or late December with visits to one or two Christmas Markets during your river cruise.
We are pleased to offer guests the opportunity to experience Floriade in 2022 while sailing along the Rhine River and Dutch and Belgian Waterways between April 14 and October 9. Right outside Amsterdam, this rare experience calls for its visitors to “explore, touch and change” as part of their journey into Floriade – which is set to feature stunning gardens, innovative sustainable gardening exhibits, live entertainment, talk shows, souvenirs and food stalls.
We invite you to join our incredible cruise on the Rhône with a Latin Touch, featuring bilingual cruise managers, daily tours with Spanish-speaking guides, Latin-inspired music nights and other distinctive elements.
Based on the overwhelmingly positive response received from the announcement of our first-ever “Soulful Experience” on the Rhône River in 2023, we are delighted to announce four new opportunities for guests to celebrate their heritage and discover Black history and culture along the rivers with us in 2024.
Join award-winning television host and travel expert, Samantha Brown, Godmother of AmaMagna, as we cruise through four countries along the Danube River. Special events and Travel Talks are included on this exclusive sailing.
We invite you to join our incredible cruise on the Danube with a Latin Touch, featuring bilingual cruise managers, daily tours with Spanish-speaking guides, Latin-inspired music nights and other distinctive elements.
Explore the rich history of classical music along the Danube River where famous composers lived, worked and performed. Plus, be treated to a variety of live performances on this melodious journey.
Based on the overwhelmingly positive response received from the announcement of our first-ever “Soulful Experience” on the Rhône River in 2023, we are delighted to announce four new opportunities for guests to celebrate their heritage and discover Black history and culture along the rivers with us in 2025
Join award-winning television host and travel expert, Samantha Brown, Godmother of AmaMagna, as we cruise through five countries along the Danube River. Special events and Travel Talks are included on this exclusive sailing.
We invite you to join our incredible cruise on the Douro with a Latin Touch, featuring bilingual cruise managers, daily tours with Spanish-speaking guides, Latin-inspired music nights and other distinctive elements.
We invite our loyal past guests to join us once again on these special Loyalty Cruises, offering unique experiences in multiple ports, commemorative gifts, and many more surprises and delights.
Imagine if there was a way to combine luxury river cruising on the Danube with the opportunity to indulge your passion and play golf? We have created the perfect package to enable you to do just that! Our exclusive Concierge Golf Programme includes 7 nights onboard one of the highest rated ships in Europe, complete with award winning cuisine, a choice of excursions in every port and our unique Twin Balconies, as well as up to 5 rounds of golf at some of the leading championship courses on the continent. Our Programme takes you straight from your ship to the course and back making your golfing experience seamless – Golf and River Cruise truly is a marriage made in heaven.
Hello! "I'm Kristin Karst, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of AmaWaterways and I'm passionate about river cruising. Each month, I love to share with you my thoughts, personal stories, travel tips and latest news on the people and places that help turn every mile of our guests' river cruise experience into one of their most cherished memories!"
…including some of the world’s most celebrated painters, writers, dancers, musicians and entertainers. The birthplace of the can-can dance, Montmartre flourished in the Belle Époque but artists still line up along the sidewalks at the Place du Tertre. This current crop of artists evoke the street’s heady heyday where the easels once belonged to such iconic painters as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Piet Mondrian, Georges Seurat, Salvador Dali and Vincent van Gogh. Legendary writers such as Langston Hughes and dancer Josephine Baker also made Montmarte their home.
Located high on a hill overlooking the glittering City of Light, Montmartre is in the 18th arrondissement. Along with making Montmartre their home and/or studio, many artists made it the subject of their works. Renoir’s 1876 masterpiece, Bal du moulin de la Galette, depicts a Sunday afternoon dance in Montmartre. Toulouse-Latrec immortalized the Moulin Rouge and its can-can dancers in his many paintings while Seurat captured them with his signature pointillism.
Le Chat Noir is thought to be the world’s first modern cabaret, sparking numerous imitators (Picasso’s Barcelona favorite Els Quatre Gats among them) – but it is also notable for its iconic poster art. The original bar is long gone, but Théophile Steinlen’s classic Le Chat Noir poster lives on. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was painted in the Le Bateau-Lavoir building and is generally considered one of the most iconic and important works ever to have been created (it is also significant as a precursor to the Cubist movement).
Trace these artists’ steps as you walk through the stone-cobbled streets of Montmartre. Artists continue to paint watercolors and portraits along the Place du Tertre, but there are also a host of sidewalk cafés to soak up the ambiance.
The Moulin Rouge, founded in 1889, was Montmartre’s top hotspot of the times. An exhilarating swirl of courtesans and can-can dancers, the chic cabaret was the center of nightlife. The original house burned down in 1915, but a revamped Moulin Rouge now sits on the border of Montmartre and Pigalle, just steps away from Montmartre. You can’t miss it – just look for the one windmill in Paris.
In a sense, the Sacré-Coeur Basilica (aka the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris) is Montmartre’s version of the Eiffel Tower. Its most famous landmark, it sits atop a bluff and can often be seen no matter where you are. A Roman Catholic church with statues of Joan of Arc and King Saint Louis IX, tourists often visit the basilica for one of the best views of Paris.
Experience the home of joie de vivre for yourself and learn more about this artists’ enclave when you add our optional pre- or post-river cruise land packages in Paris as part of your Paris & Normandy, Impressions of the Seine & Paris, Flavors of Burgundy or Colors of Provence sailing.
What's included in the land package
Contact your travel advisor to add this optional land package to your journey today!