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.
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Kugelhopf is one of the most popular and delicious treats found in Alsace, the endearingly folkloric French province on the Rhine. Not only is it showcased in virtually every window of the charming boulangeries and patisseries throughout the Alsatian countryside, but you can easily find molds of every size and color in local souvenir and kitchen shops. This fluted, circular coffee bread—and indeed, it is more like a brioche than cake—is often served dusted with confectioners’ sugar.
While traditional recipes have been enjoyed for years throughout Alsace (and in Austria, Switzerland and Germany where the cake is known as Gugelhupf), some confectioners tweak the recipe, adding grated orange and lemon peel, candied fruit and vanilla or even smoky bacon and crunchy walnuts. Enjoy it for breakfast, lunch or dinner with everything from milk and fruit juices to coffee and wine and as an apéritif. A dollop of butter or marmalade spread over the Kugelhopf is yet another way to indulge!
Place all ingredients, except for the orange peel and raisins, into a mixing bowl and stir until the texture is smooth. Add the fruit to the dough. Let the dough rest for at least 15 to 20 minutes so it can rise. Divide the dough in two, and place into two well-buttered Bundt pans. Let the dough rest at room temperature for an hour. Bake in a preheated 375° F oven for 35 minutes.
Makes two Bundt Cakes
Try some traditional Alsace kugelhopf for yourself as part of your visits to Riquewihr or Strasbourg, France during many of our Rhine and Rhine & Moselle river cruises.