These are UK based tour operators specialising in river cruises on luxury riverboats and hotel barges on European waterways and rivers worldwide. |
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| Barge Company, The |
01275 474034 |
Representing over 50 independent hotel barges on European canals and rivers carrying between 1-50 passengers. Some beautiful barges in locations all over Europe including the UK & Ireland. |
| Cruising Holidays |
01756 693609 |
Feature river cruises all over the world. That includes all the main European rivers (on cruise boats or small luxury barges) plus the Russian waterways, the Dneiper, the Mekong, the Nile, the Yangtze, the Guadalquivir (Spain), the Murray (Australia) and steamboat cruises on the Mississippi. |
| European Waterways |
01784 482439 |
Specialising in luxury barge holidays on canals & rivers in Europe since 1974. These boats are like small luxury hotels, typically accommodating around 6-12 guests. Often cruises are themed, eg golf or wine cruises. EW are known as Go Barging in the USA, they have boats in Scotland, Ireland & England (Thames), as well as France, Netherlands & Germany. |
| Inghams |
020 8780 4444 |
As part of their Lakes & Mountains programme, Inghams offer river cruises on the Danube (Austria), Rhine (Germany), Douro (Portugal), Po (Italy) and Rhône (France). |
| Kingdom Tours |
01296 433999 |
Kingdom organise European river & canal cruises on behalf of Waterways World magazine. |
| Peter Deilmann River Cruises |
020 7436 2931 |
Probably the best-known European river cruise specialist. Luxurious cruise boats on the Rhine, Moselle, Oder, Elbe, Po, Danube, Rhône & Saône. |
| Saga |
0800 096 0082 |
Saga (holidays for over 50s) offer a wide range of river cruises, covering the Danube, Elbe, Rhine, and the waterways of France, Holland, Russia and the Ukraine. |
| Swan Hellenic |
020 7800 2200 |
SH have a small programme of cruises on the Rhine, Rhone & Danube |
| Thomson Holidays |
0870 606 1470 |
As part of their Lakes & Mountains programme, Thomson have river cruises on the Danube, Rhine & Rhône. |
| Trafalgar Tours |
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Longstanding tour company with a dedicated European river cruises programme. Hard to say whether Trafalgar counts as a UK operator. When it was set up 55 years ago in Trafalgar Square it was, but it is now South African and operated from there although it produces brochures for the UK market, sold through UK travel agents and on the internet.... you decide! |
| Travel Renaissance |
01372 744455 |
River and waterway cruises throughout Europe and worldwide |
| Travelscope |
0870 380 3333 |
**Ceased trading 21/12/07** Travelscope have a collection of 22 European river cruises. Travelscope specialise in producing 'reader offer' tours for local, regional and national newspapers and magazines. |
| Voyage Jules Verne |
020 7616 1000 |
VJV offer a large variety of classic river journeys. As well as the Nile, The Yangtse, the Amazon and the great rivers of Europe & Russia, there are cruises on less familiar rivers and waterways in the Ukraine, Thailand and Canada. |
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